first hit record to mention the Internet/www?

Killing Joke had a track on their `96 album, Democracy called "Intellect," that featured the chorus, Kiss My Intellect Goodbye, which many mistook for Kiss my INTERNET Goodbye . They were wrong, though.

"put this in your cd-rom, w w w.cannibus.com"

predates britney's "e-mail my heart" by a good three-four years.

Anthrax I'm The Man, 1987

which was 96, i think.

Village People have a song whose video involves pre-internet bbses even though the lyrics are only about sex on the phone. Circa '86 I think.

First mention of cell phones surely can't be destiny's child's bugaboo but that's what strikes me.

Pagers gotta be in 80s rap but I don't remember where would be a good start.

3LW's "No More" is the first time I felt I heard a reference to a pager completely and naturally integrated into day-to-day life.

How many ".com" albums and songs are there anyway? There's r. kelly's tp-2.com and craig david had a track I think, and trick daddy's thug.com and what else?

Earliest cell phone song I know of is Roger McGuinn's "Car Phone" from 1991

i don't know when though

A hit in the fact that it got nearer to the top 40 than any other Denim release.

(yes, I'm a sad, sad man)

came across toy-box's ultra-cheesy www.girl today and asked myself this very question. my first thought was, "i bet ilx has a thread on this subject". was not disappointed

'89
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7Og1DuMu3k

the first instance i can think of is Mousse T's 'Horny' - the lyrical version from '98 (i think) but surely there was something a lot earlier than that - a hip hop track from '93/'94 perhaps?

I suspect there must be one older than Poe's "Hello" (first released late '95, became a hit on U.S. genre charts in late '96). The web was enough of a thing in 1995 for The Simpsons to make jokes about the internet containing nerds and porn. But that wouldn't transfer well to serious music :)

The unusual thing is that Poe's line, "like a disconnected modem", makes total sense. Most other lyricists seem amiably clueless about the technology or the lingo, e.g.

I tried to call you
But I can't find the telephone
I sent a message through the internet
But it rejected (sic)

Cut Mousse T some slack, it's not his first language. Could there be an equally silly line on a hit in '95 or earlier?

1998: http://sistersoleil1.bandcamp.com/track/aol

(not a hit, perhaps not, uh, quality, but extant)

remember hearing this circa 1998 and finding it hilarious, if only because of the crowbarring of www., but neglecting to finish with a suffix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhYxe8S4WWk

Related (and funny)

Horrible '90s/'00s/'10s dot-com album covers like 'cher not.com.mercial'

and for non-hits:

Earliest mention of the internet in a song or title

I was going to mention that Lung Leg song and christ, it's the first one mentioned in that thread whodathunkit

wasn't really a hit but Prince's "Emale.com" came out on Emancipation in 1996.