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This article features a list of songs about lives without the Internet, I'll add another one for the Hacker News audience. The Day The Routers Died, written an

This article features a list of songs about lives without the Internet, I'll add another one for the Hacker News audience. The Day The Routers Died, written and performed live at the 55th RIPE Meeting by Gary Feldman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0 > a long long time ago > i can still remember > when my laptop could connect elsewhere > > and i tell you all there was a day > the network card i threw away > had a purpose - and it worked for you and me... > > but 18 years completely wasted > with each address we've aggregated > the tables overflowing > the traffic just stopped flowing... > > and now we're bearing all the scars > and all my traceroutes showing stars... > the packets would travel faster in cars... > the day... the routers died... https://catonmat.net/ftp/gary_feldman-the_day_the_routers_died-lyrics.txt https://catonmat.net/ftp/gary_feldman-the_day_the_routers_di...

nobody9999 6y ago
Reminds me of the Talking Propeller Heads (TPH)[0]. Saw them open up for the Beach Boys[1] at Usenix in '94. My sister in-law (she and my brother lived in SF back then) is a huge Beach Boys fan, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. Unsurprisingly, it was easy to get a few extra tickets. She really enjoyed the show and even got to chat with Brian Wilson afterwards. She was thrilled. I have to say that while I'm not a big fan, they did put on a pretty good show. TPH was mildly amusing, doing covers of popular songs with "Open Systems"[2] lyrics. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talking_Propellerheads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talking_Propellerheads [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_Boys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_Boys [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_(computing)

nobody9999 6y ago

Reminds me of the Talking Propeller Heads (TPH)[0]. Saw them open up for the Beach Boys[1] at Usenix in '94. My sister in-law (she and my brother lived in SF back then) is a huge Beach Boys fan, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. Unsurprisingly, it was easy to get a few extra tickets. She really enjoyed the show and even got to chat with Brian Wilson afterwards. She was thrilled. I have to say that while I'm not a big fan, they did put on a pretty good show. TPH was mildly amusing, doing covers of popular songs with "Open Systems"[2] lyrics. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talking_Propellerheads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talking_Propellerheads [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_Boys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_Boys [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_(computing)