I was the guy that used audacity to make ringtones and then share them with as many people as possible. This was of course once phones could play actual music as ringtones.
Blast from the past moment. Took me 4 episodes of yugioh to be able to properly record the intro song so I could listen to it whenever I wanted. Took me 3 for Pokémon.
I used my brother's vinyl lp of the rocky horror show (Australian cast) to record toucha toucha touch me for my ring tone, and my voicemail message was sweet transvestite(just the "how'd you do" bit).
I used to be able to play a song or yt video and use an aux cable to go from the pc's headphone out, right back into the pc's mic in, which audacity recognized as a mic, so you could easily record anything playing in original quality.