Back in the '40s and early '50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.

In 1999 Moog partnered with Bomb Factory to co-develop the first digital effects based on Moog technology in the form of plugins for Pro Tools software. Moog received a Grammy Trustees Award for lifetime achievement in 1970. Moog's first wife was Shirleigh Moog (née Leigh) a grammar school teacher whom he married in 1958.

Robert Arthur "Bob" Moog (/ˈmoʊɡ/ MOHG; May 23 1934 – August 21 2005) founder of Moog Music was an American pioneer of electronic music best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.