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Kudos for them calling a track "Zeroes and ones" back in 1993. Wonder how many non-geek people knew about zeros and ones then!
by quickthrower2 5y ago
Kudos for them calling a track "Zeroes and ones" back in 1993. Wonder how many non-geek people knew about zeros and ones then!
- jdkee 5y agoObligatory Kraftwerk "Computer World" plug. See https://consequence.net/2021/05/kraftwerk-computer-world-40-anniversary-essay/ https://consequence.net/2021/05/kraftwerk-computer-world-40-...
- tzs 5y agoI've wondered a similar thing about the song "Silicone on Sapphire" [1] from The Clash's album "Sandinista!" from late 1980. That song is a dub version of the music from an earlier song on that album, "Washington Bullets", but with the lyrics replaced by a couple voices on the left and right just speaking mostly computer geek phrases back and forth. [1] Yes, "Silicon on Sapphire" would have made more sense but they used "Silicone" in the title.
- grujicd 5y agoThere was a pop hit a decade before that, in 1984 ex Yugoslavia - "your computer's program". It was a mainstream song, not for geeks. 80-ties were the time when computers were very present in mainstream tv and newspapers as a fascintaing, hyped new thing. There were lots of educational content explaining in basic terms what computers are. It seemed that everyone (including grandparents) knew they were digital, and most probably that zeroes and ones were involved. https://youtu.be/pldDuqnPP1s https://youtu.be/pldDuqnPP1s
- detritus 5y agoBack then we still had fairly 'proper' IT classes at schools, at least here on the UK, so quite a few non-geek (certainly, as I saw myself at that age) kids would know at least roughly what binary was. Nowadays, I suspect less so.