New Delhi: Today, Robert Moog's Google doodle gave us an opportunity to compose music on a synthesizer, record and play it back. Most of us are quite amused with this interactive and playable doodle.
But do you know that this is not the only playable musical Goodle doodle from Google? This is for the second time that Google replaced its usual homepage logo with an interactive musical doodle.
Last year, on June 9, 2011, Google had put up a digital version of the legendary electric guitar, the Gibson Les Paul, in place of its logo to celebrate the 96th birthday of the country and jazz guitarist, songwriter and inventor, Lester William Polsfuss, better known as Les Paul. The guitar doodle was playable by hovering the cursor over the doodle and even by the computer keyboard. The Les Paul doodle was made with a combination of JavaScript, HTML5 Canvas, CSS, Flash and tools like the Google Font API, goo.gl and App Engine.
During that time, too, people had as much fun playing with the doodle as they are having today. ...
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09:02 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Google doodle marking the 78th birthday American electrical engineer Robert 'Bob' Moog had the online world hooked trying out their keyboard skills. The interactive doodle, the second interactive musical instrument doodle since the digital guitar on Les Paul's 96th birthday, has some cutting-edge Web technologies behind it. The Bob Moog Google doodle is powered by JavaScript, Closure libraries, CSS3 and tools like Google Web Fonts, Google+ API,...
06:03 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Robert Arthur Moog, popularly known as Bob Moog is the subject of Wednesday's innovative Google doodle. A personal statement written when he was only 17 and a student at Bronx School of Science in New York reveals the spirit that with be a characteristic of his life. Bob Moog is best known for his invention the Moog Synthesizer. R. Moog 10/10/51 When I was six years old, I...
09:42 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: While you were busy creating new tunes with the Google doodle version of the Moog Synthesizer on your non-Chrome Web browser a little link below the doodle may have missed your eye. It says "Upgrade to a modern browser and see what this doodle can really do" and leads to a Google Chrome download page that suggests that Google doodles are best experienced on Google Chrome. With the... 
New Delhi: Millions of manhours will be at stake at workplaces around the world as Google honours the American electrical engineer Robert 'Bob' Moog with a digital replica of the Moog electronic music synthesizer on his 78th birthday. The first Moog synthesizer, which went on to revolutionize music in the 1960s and 70s was first introduced in 1964 and the 2012 Google doodle version bring the abilities of innovative electronic... 
