Google's into the habit of producing animated or interactive Google Doodles to celebrate special occasions or important moments in history. Today the company is celebrating the birthday of Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer and a pioneer in electronic music.
Moog passed away in August of 2005, however, had he been alive today, he would have turned 78. Google's Ryan Germick told Mashable that they decided to pay tribute to Moog because he was like "a patron saint of the nerdy arts." Their tribute comes in the form of a Mini Moog analog synthesizer on the Google homepage that users can play away to their hearts' content.
The Doodle is also something of an achievement for the Google Doodle team. Germick, the head of Google's Doodle department, had to enlist the help of Google Engineer Joey Hurst and the whole project took nearly four months from the time Germick first brought the idea to Hurst to roll out early on May 23. Germick branded the Moog synth "one of the most involved engineering efforts they’ve ever had for a Google Doodle" and said it required thousands of lines of code.
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