In praise of MIDI, tech's hidden gift to humanity

One version to bind them all, and in the darkness rock them
Opinion If you're not a musician, you may never think of MIDI, the Musical Instrument Digital Interface standard that links up keyboards and other electronic noise boxes. Firefox has, adding the super-niche Web MIDI API in its latest version. That's one of those 'uh, OK' decisions which gets weirder the longer you look at it – but then, MIDI is utterly unlike other tech standards.…