 In the Netherlands, the traveling arts and culture festival De Parade already featured a "stille disco" [silent disco] earlier, for example in 2003.Dutch DJs Nico Okkerse and Michael Minton have been described as "the pioneers ... in the legend of silent disco" because they started "stille disco" events in 2002.Okkerse claims his company 433fm.com "created Silent Disco in 2002" and its site does have photos from such events going back to at least 2003.