ABOUT

The Full Story

1960s

Monogon was founded as Vocal8, a tape cartridge manufacturer with a focus on educational audio content. Their first product was My Audio Pal, a tape player that became the most popular Christmas gift of 1964 for children. After their commercial success, Vocal8 again made history by converting magnetic tape audio data to short-form video, transcoding the Moon landing.

1970s

In the early 1970s, Vocal8 split into two separate companies. Monotape focused on compact cassette tapes, while V8C continued Vocal8's production on magnetic tapes. V8C decided to reject home arcade and computation units, which proved ill-fated as Monotape became successful by developing hardware for cassette tapes.

1980s

In the 1980s, Monotape began to develop disc-based laser readers. However, after the Media Board of Canada declared that magnetic tape will be phased out in favor of more stable storage formats. In response, Monotape rebranded to MonoDisc to pre-emptively distance from magnetic tape formats and began the transfer to fully optical media. They continued to release cassette media, most notably audiobooks.

1990s

In 1990, MonoDisc R&D discovered the Voidway, a mysterious dimension with limitless mind-bending applications. It is possible they reverse-engineered Gammon technology, which also utilised the Voidway in a more crude manner in their popular game Duck Season. MonoDisc experimented with the Voidway extensively, and following a discovery of [REDACTED][1], massive upheavals occurred in the company.

Soon after, MonoDisc rebranded to Monogon Industries. Their main focus shifted to the potential applications of the Voidway, and in particular void energy - a strange quantum matter that could exist in multiple places at once.

In 1994, the first successful use of void energy was released - the Prophet, a standalone headset that could run OldMyth on void energy. The explosive popularity of the Prophet caused Monogon immeasurable success, spawning a line of headsets (ranging from work-focused to gamer-oriented) and heavy investment into virtual reality.