Neocities.org
Suzanne's Electronic Fun Yard
512,730 views
292 followers
645 updates
0 tips
I just found out that the creator of MIDI, Dave Smith has passed away this year, RIP
2 likes
lots of MIDI tracks were used as background music for webpages more than 20 years ago.
Felt a bit morbid 'liking' that comment. Still, RIP, Dave Smith.
Here's the thing, as a fan of the MP3 file format, I really have this tendency to worship Suzanne Vega, since she was "mother of the MP3", but this time I wanted to give some honor to the father of MIDI for a change, and was shocked to find out that he died this year. I don't really hear people mention Dave Smith much, so I decided to give condolences to him.
Also, classic Geocities-style sites used MIDI music as their background music, and I was planning on making some new webpages that use some MIDI-style music as their background music.