For damm sure brian would be the subject on this board, more than ronnie,period!!

Cause Ronnie would be in the Faces (or Small ~)...

Yeah, but there wasn't any internet in the 60's.

Amen, Brian and Mick were the most popular in the sixties!

Actually Internet was invented around 1963-64, but as a military thing.

Strange idea, rooster. You're ok?

Baboon Bro Wrote:
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> Actually Internet was invented around 1963-64, but
> as a military thing.

You've got a point there. The world's first operational packet switching network was the ARPANET, which first went online in 1968. The program which produced the ARPANET (initiated by J. C. R. Licklider and developed by Wesley Clark, Leonard Kleinrock, Larry Roberts, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Taylor) had already conceived most of the basic ideas of what such a network would look like to its users; today's Internet is not much more than a better-engineered and very wide-spread (much more so than perhaps even those visionary pioneers foresaw) implementation of those ideas.

The Internet's roots lie within the ARPANET, which not only was the intellectual forerunner of the Internet, but was also initially the core network in the collection of networks in the Internet; it was also an important tool in developing the Internet (being used for communication between the groups working on internetworking research).

So, all very interessting, but it was'nt until 1992 that CompuServe hosted the first known WYSIWYG e-mail content and forum posts. Fonts, colors and emoticons were encoded into 7-bit text based messages via the CompuServe navigation software NavCIS; covering DOS and early Windows 3.1 systems. And Brian was long gone by then!

Thanks for informin.
Maybe I confused the net with the Stones (or the synth?);
I knew something was as old as meself

The syntehesizer was invented in 1964 though, wasnt it?
Way too early in the mornin...

Baboon Bro Wrote:
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> Thanks for informin.
> Maybe I confused the net with the Stones (or the
> synth?);
> I knew something was as old as meself
>
> The syntehesizer was invented in 1964 though,
> wasnt it?
> Way too early in the mornin...
>

Well, if you'd call it that. But they were hardly comparable with todays synthesizers. Early synthesizers used technology derived from electronic analog computers, laboratory test equipment and early electronic musical instruments.

In the 1950s, RCA produced experimental devices to synthesize both voice and music. The giant Mark II Music Synthesizer, housed at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center] in New York City in 1958, was only capable of producing music once it had been completely programmed. The vacuum tube system had to be manually patched to create each new type of sound. It then used a paper tape sequencer punched with holes that controlled pitch sources and filters, similar to a mechanical player piano but able to generate a wide variety of sounds.

In 1958 Daphne Oram at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop produced a novel synthesizer using her "Oramics" technique, driven by drawings on a 35mm film strip. This was used for a number of years at the BBC. Hugh Le Caine, John Hanert, Raymond Scott, Percy Grainger (with Burnett Cross), and others built a variety of automated electronic-music controllers during the late 1940s and 1950s.

By the 1960s, synthesizers were developed which could be played in real time but were confined to studios because of their size. Modularity was the usual design, with standalone signal sources and processors being connected with patch cords or by other means, and all controlled by a common controlling device.

Early synthesizers were often experimental special-built devices, usually based on the concept of modularity. Donald Buchla, Hugh Le Caine, Raymond Scott and Paul Ketoff were among the first to build such instruments, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Only Buchla later produced a commercial version.

The first playable modern configurable music synthesizer was created by Robert Moog, who had been a student of Peter Mauzey, one of the engineers of the RCA Mark II. Moog designed the circuits used in his synthesizer while he was at Columbia-Princeton. The Moog synthesizer was first displayed at the Audio Engineering Society convention in 1964. Like the RCA Mark II, it required hours to set up the machine for a new sound, but it was smaller and more flexible. The Moog synthesizer was at first a curiosity, but by 1968 it had caused a sensation.

Micky Dolenz of The Monkees bought one of the first three Moog synthesizers and the first commercial release to feature a Moog synthesizer was The Monkees' fourth album, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones, Ltd., in 1967, which also became the first album featuring a synthesizer to hit #1 on the charts. Also among the first music performed on this synthesizer was the million-selling 1968 album Switched-On Bach by Wendy Carlos. Switched-On Bach was one of the most popular classical-music recordings ever made. During the late 1960s, hundreds of other popular recordings used Moog synthesizer sounds. The Moog synthesizer even spawned a subculture of record producers who made novelty "Moog" recordings, depending on the odd new sounds made by their synthesizers (which were not always Moog units) to draw attention and sales.

Moog also established standards for control interfacing, with a logarithmic 1-volt-per-octave pitch control and a separate pulse triggering signal. This standardization allowed synthesizers from different manufacturers to operate together. Pitch control is usually performed either with an organ-style keyboard or a music sequencer, which produces a series of control voltages over a fixed time period and allows some automation of music production.

Other early commercial synthesizer manufacturers included ARP, who also started with modular synthesizers before producing all-in-one instruments, and British firm EMS.

One major innovation by Moog was in 1970, when they made a synthesizer with a built-in keyboard and without modular design--the analog circuits were retained, but made interconnectable with switches in a simplified arrangement called "normalization". Though less flexible than modularity, it made the instrument more portable and its use much easier. This first prepatched synthesizer, the Minimoog, became very popular, with over 12,000 units sold. The Minimoog also influenced the design of nearly all subsequent synthesizers.

In the 1970s miniaturized solid-state components let synthesizers become self-contained and movable. They began to be used in live performances. Soon, electronic synthesizers had become a standard part of the popular-music repertoire, with Chicory Tip's "Son of my Father" the first #1 hit to feature a synthesizer.