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| The song was about 15 months old when it was recorded, yet the audience sung along, including the punch-lines. (Tim P. Ryan) |
| From Steve's "Reap The Wind" album (Tim P. Ryan) |
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When I was a boy, our Nintendo
Was carved from an old Apple tree
And we used garden hose to connect it
To our steam-powered color TV.
But it still beat that ancient Atari
'Cuz I almost went blind, don'tcha know,
Playing Breakout and Pong on a video game
Hooked up to the radio.
And we walked twenty miles to the schoolhouse
Barefoot, uphill both ways,
Through blizzards in summer and winter
Back in the good old days.
Back when Fortran was not even Three-tran
And the PC was only a toy
And we did our computing by gaslight
When I was a boy.
When I was a boy, all our networks
Were for hauling in fish from the sea--
Our bawd rate was eight bits an hour (and she was worth it!),
And our IP address was just 3.
And you kids who complain that the World Wide Web
Is too slow oughtta cut out your bitchin',
'Cuz when I was a boy, every packet
Was delivered by carrier pigeon
And we walked twenty miles to the schoolhouse
Barefoot, uphill both ways,
Through blizzards in summer and winter
Back in the good old days.
Back when Fortran was not even Two-tran
And the mainframe was only a toy
And we did our computing by torchlight
When I was a boy.
When I was a boy, our IS shop
Built relational tables from wood,
And we wrappered our data in oilcloth
To preserve it the best that we could.
And we carried our bits in a bucket,
And our mainframe weighed 900 tons,
And we programmed in ones and in zeros
And sometimes we ran out of ones.
And we walked twenty miles to the schoolhouse
Barefoot, uphill both ways,
Through blizzards in summer and winter
Back in the good old days.
Back when Fortran was not even One-tran
And the abacus? Only a toy!
And we did our computing in primordial darkness
When I was a boy.
(Hatman) |
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fiogf49gjkf0d With a new computer, I finally heard it. "Things haven't changed much."
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fiogf49gjkf0d This was most likely recorded at Ohio Valley Filk Fest, since he references being in Ohio during the second chorus, which would mean October of '96 or '97. I was there both years, but I don't have any specific recollection of this particular performance. Ah, creeping senility... :D
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fiogf49gjkf0d Will someone PLEASE tell me what is said in the audience at the end of the song that he replies, "Damn smart alec kids."
Even with my sound plugged all the way up, I can not make it out.
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