This Basil Kirchin - Silicon Chip track is a good example of a pop cultural conception of computers as The Future that has nothing to do with networks. You can obviously find tons of examples like it (not all as fun and groovy). So that distinction is valid and interesting, when does network awareness become a thing. That's what I read the OP as asking.
https://youtu.be/oDU6P01yvnU
― the sun-dried raisins of muesli (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
the OP asked for "digital connectivity
But more specifically -
Hit me with music mentioning the World Wide Web, E-Mail or Cyber Space
― the sun-dried raisins of muesli (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
fwiw my point was not that "computer world" and "computer love" are vaguely about computers as the Future but that they specifically are dealing with the digital cyber space age, just as numerous observers had been since at least mcluhan, stewart brand, ant farm etc. we can split hairs about the technology of computer dating in 1985, or what roger troutman might have been imagining it would soon be. maybe he got into a discussion of it on The Well that year for all we know. but what people imagined it as was, you're interacting with a computer (perhaps over the phone lines), it does some thinking for you, and it talks back linking you up with a match. that's extremely "cyber" imho in terms of the offloading of consciousness, physical remove from the thinking machine, the new forms of consciousness and social interaction that get worked out with this technology etc.... as much as any of the stuff haraway is discussing in the cyborg manifesto. if there was a song from 1992 hat went "I met my girl on a BBS, lord / It's love at 9600 baud" would you be like "yeah sure but technically that is just one PC dialing up another PC, not a network" ?
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
Basement 5 (featuring Dennis Morris - the guy who created the Metal Box design and packaging for PIL, and the bass player for B.A.D and later, Dreadzone) also had a track called 'Silicon Chip' but a bit later in 1980.
― raise my chicken finger (Willl), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
xpost okay so only those three exact terms? this is silly. idk, not like i have a million more examples anyway. i've said my piece and it's LBI's thread.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
we can split hairs about the technology of computer dating in 1985
We can!
And I was thinking 1981 (but the same goes for Troutman; he no longer needs a strategy because the computer will do the match making.)
Kraftwerk sing -
I call this numberFor a data date
As I was saying, I don't think the connotation of "data dating" at the time was so much about interacting with or through computers. The computer's role was to do the number crunching profile matching. He's not using a modem, he's calling a number. One imagines he's calling either the dating agency to speak to an operative, or calling one of his matches. That's the image I have and how I suspect (or recall) it would have read in 1981.
― the sun-dried raisins of muesli (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
Weirdly adversarial thread
― growing up in publix (morrisp), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
xpost okay so only those three exact terms?
All the cues I see in the OP refer to email, cyberspace and the internet (i.e. networks) so I took that to be the loose brief because "post any old songs what mention compooters" seems too broad and unlikely.
And Computer Love I've always thought (while being about loneliness and alienation in the technological age or whatever) referenced that old fashioned type of "computer dating" rather than predicting Tinder as such.
― the sun-dried raisins of muesli (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 17:09 (five years ago) link
Surely dating agencies' version of "computer dating" was just dumping ppl's paper questionnaires into a spreadsheet and then searching for the highest number of shared interests
(if even that and it wasn't the sole operator of the business reading the handful of submissions they got in the same room as a PC they used for their accounts) www.pitchshifter.com is an album by the British industrial band Pitchshifter, released in 1998.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, September 26, 2018 9:07 PM (yesterday)
No idea if they were the first band to do that but they certainly beat Jethro Tull to the punch!
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, September 26, 2018 9:08 PM (yesterday)
www.tism.wanker.com is the fifth album by Australian alternative rock group TISM (This Is Serious Mum), released in 1998. The album title references an internet URL which, at the time of release, was a subdomain (of wanker.com) provided by a friendly person overseas who had registered wanker.com, as TISM were not able to obtain their preferred domain, wanker.com.au, due to Australian domain regulations. However, the web hosting fees were not paid, subsequently it was taken down by the hosting ISP several months after launch and has not been available since.
― Betting Eighty Hams (sic), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
wow this is rapidly drifting into turrican territory. again: "fwiw my point was not that 'computer world' and 'computer love' were vaguely about computers as the Future but that they specifically are dealing with the digital cyber space age." but go ahead and attribute a dopey spelling of "computers" to me if it makes you feel better?
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
I was going to mention Neil Young's "Sample and Hold" from 1982 here, but, on reading the lyrics, it seems to be about androids.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
fwiw my point was not that 'computer world' and 'computer love' were vaguely about computers as the Future
Fwiw you seem to have incorrectly inferred that I said you said that they were.
but go ahead and attribute a dopey spelling of "computers" to me if it makes you feel better?
Also something you have mistakenly inferred. That's not something I did or would do to "make myself feel better." But go ahead and attack me for no reason.
but that they specifically are dealing with the digital cyber space age.
Computer World is (although it's a vague phrase - maybe you mean in some vague public conception sense.)
But I think what Computer Love actually describes is probably that rather low tech "computer dating", although yes you can argue even that is a bit "cyber" I suppose. Using a telephone is "cyber" so whatevs.
― the sun-dried raisins of muesli (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
Neil Peart was another relatively early adopter (1996) with 'Virtuality' from Rush's 'Test For Echo': 'Net boy, net girlSend your signal 'round the worldLet your fingers walk and talkAnd set you freeNet boy, net girlSend your impulse around the worldPut your message in a modemAnd throw it in the Cyber Sea'
― raise my chicken finger (Willl), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
first hit record to mention the Internet/www?
― visiting, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
Although these are some spectacularly badly written lyrics, they prophesize the internet of today surprisingly well for 1994. No wide-eyed techno utopia for Ray & Anita:
TechnologyVirtual SocietyInfo superhighway interactionInto the future, into the futureTechnologySee the world progressing all around us, it's a virtual societyInfo superhighway interaction, computer pal or enemySo communicate with meWon't you interact with me?Technicians, technique, technologyIt's the most important thing in the industryIt's going further nowadays, 'cause they want to get paidEvery day new discovery and plans to be madeNow get connected like an electric wireLook out for the shock, look out for the fireJust imagine how it would beWithout the thing they call "technology".Interact with meInteract with meInfo superhighwayTechnicians, technique, technologyIt runs the world and societyDigital revolution, technical solutionsFor some it only brings more and more confusionDo we still talk about civilization'Cause we gotta look out for the computer invasionRadio, telephone, or TV..Would it be there without technology?Into the futureInto the futureEnergy from the inner mindTechnologySo communicate with meWant you interact with meInfo superhighway interactionTechnologyTechnologyTechnology
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
Earliest mention of the internet in a song or title
― visiting, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
THAT'S the thread I was looking for earlier, thank you
― sleeve, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link