From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media The Moog Synthesizer (October 1964)

Robert Moog creates the first substractive synthesizer to utilize a keyboard as a controller, and demonstrates it at the at the Audio Engineering Society convention.

The Moog synthesizer became one of the first widely used electronic musical instruments. It is a member of the quintephone family of musical instruments, which generate sounds "informatically."