It had fun drag and drop features, and made incredible squeaky noises when you did something wrong.
I have been playing with MAX ever since, and love it. The screenshot below shows a simple set of objects that create a sound, push it through a set of audio convertors and then output it to the speaker. This software was revolutionary at the time, because it had draggable audio and midi modeling objects that could be connected by drawing lines on a screen. It was during this period I accidentally ran into a piece of software called MAX. Although all of these generated the squeaky-bleepy type music the avant-gard school of thought was hoping I would make, the whole thing didn’t satisfy me yet. Thank you for the music While trying to cope with the disappointment of this new World Wide Web, I attended the Electronic Music classes at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and wrote code in obscure languages like CSound, an equivalent to C++ designed to create computer audio, and the AC Toolbox, yet another programming language but this time geared towards outputting musical scores generated with random numbers.
Funny enough, they forgot to include database content in their markup, so that now the Vatican first needed to create a (non-searchable) text based list to display their libraries’ content (in the process “forgetting” to include their forbidden books section there). The w3c consortium created a markup language that made it possible to mix text and images into a visually attractive page so that people could showcase what they wanted. I was surprised by the immense amount of information I could find, and was instantly hooked! I connected to several systems, and even hacked my way into the forbidden books section of the Vatican library (yes, they do collect the books they forbid…), amazed to find all sorts of fancy content connected into one huge information hideaway (or was that highway?), open to all people patient enough to wait half an hour to download one single image from somewhere across the planet.īut hey, then came our salvation. I was curious about those mystical possibilities of browsing gopher networks, searching them with Veronica, playing in MUDs and doing other fancy things no-one ever heard about. Humble beginnings It must have been around 1993 when I first hooked up my Atari ST with my 2400 baud modem to one of the first Dutch free access providers and checked out something called the Internet.
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