Originally posted by zeeblebot
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080328/ap_on_hi_te/earliest_recording;_ylt=AqPVyYCHYgGVZhFVmlqmxvas0NUE
http://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/
Au Clair de la Lune
Don't go to the second link. It froze my comp. I heard about the recordings yesterday, it was done with a needle making squiggles on a smoke filled paper and there was no way to play back the recordings at that time, it took further developments in audio and visual technology to make them into sounds, but still, 1860! Pushing 150 years ago!