Computer songs and poems: filk authors

adrian@milton.u.washington.edu

Yellow Subroutine

Anon, and Mark E. Sunderlin

The Programmer's Blues

Joerg Anslik

Not a boolean

Thomas Arneberg

Hello, my ASCII gal

Young European Radio Astronomers

My Data are Over the Ocean

Andrew L. Ayers

Admin's Lament
It's Linux!

Marcus Bales

Cyber-Netizen's Song
POE PUREE
Surfing the Web on a Busy Evening

Falkirk Bard

An IBM User

David Barr

Berkeley California

Chris Barratt

All along the Ethernet
I crashed the sequel

Ken Bastholm

I've Got a Lovely Computer

Peter Baylies

G C C I Don't Love GNU You Don't Love C

Thaddeus Beier, Robert Frye, Robert Herndon, William Lindemann, Sarah Elizabeth Miller, and Michael John

I'm a Programmer

Ben

Windowsian Crapsody

J. Benson & J. Doll

I've Been Working on a Kernel
Sentimental Berwald
That's Life At Case

J. Benson, J. Doll, S. Fraim (with a little help from T. Recko)

The Devil Went Down to Crawford

J. Benson, J. Doll & S. Fraim

Hark! the Screaming Students Cry

John L. Berger

Yesterday

Anthony Berno

The Computerbury Tales

Nelson Bishop

I Want a New Bug
Leavin' Fed'ral Express
Little PC
Mr. Bossman
Ode to Amy (or: The Frontend Shuffle)
Please Release Me
These are are a Few of Our Favorite Machines

Terry Bollinger & The Watt Five

Comp Sci Serenade

Gordon Booman

That old time PDP

Ulrika Bornetun

C Hacker in Paradise
Computerized Girl
I'll never hack in this language again

Daniel Bowen

Losing my Connection

Bob Bradley

God Rest Ye Merry Network Fans

Jeffrey K. Bray

Ahh.. crash
The Bastard
Fiber-Optic
I'm Hacking Up Some CNAME's
Uptown URL

Bri Bri

Treekiller

Brent C.J. Britton

Don't Have a Conniption
Software for Nothing

Sherna Burley

My Program Lies in the DEC-20

Peter L. Buschman

The VMS Mourning Song

Chesire Catalyst

The Hacker Song

Tim Cheney

In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree

Timothy P. Cheney

Old bit stream

Lars R Clausen

The alt.flamers song
Oh, Root
Setting Text in LaTeX
When I can't log in

Larry Colen

Jargontalk

Albert Corda, Richard Holmes & David Kinder

602 is Coming to Core
99 Bugs in the Monitor Now
Away in QMANGR
Bye, Bye, System
The First TOPS-10
Magtapes Roasting
Over Hill, Over Caile
Stopcode Bells
The Twelve Days of Uptime
What Segment is This?
The Wonderful Hacker

Alan Cox, Leon Thrane, Jim Finnis, Alec Muffet & (?)

The Alternative Wall

Alan Cox

Forever Annoying
Linux Expo
Mr Shaver

Stuart McLure Cracraft

HACKADU

Matt Crawford

Cycles For Nothing

Fred Curtis

My Favourite Things

William Cutter

Crash Stuff
Wreck of the NESD-1

Don Data and the Res-Tones :-)

Silicon Valley Guy

decvax!duke!unc!bch

Somewhere over the Network

Mikhail Demchenko

Surfers In The Night

Malcolm Dickinson

The Disks of UNIX

The Dragon

The Maven

Tony Duell

DECman
Every Cycle is Sacred
Glory, Glory Microcoding
The Hackers are Best
Hacking Iron
I'm a CoCo3 from Tandy
Just remember that you're flying o'er a disk pack....
Raster Operations
A Song of Computation
UNIBUS
When I was a Lad

Adrian P. Dunston

Workin' on a SUN - The NCSU-CSC Blues

Jonathan Dursi

CAMM (Crustified Ancient of Main Memory)

Cic Ecimovic

Blyeah the Wall

Timotej Ecimovic

Tomix

Clayton Elwell, J. Benson & J. Doll

I/O

Equin0x

Chats Don't Work
Crashed
Geek

Jim Finnis

Berkeley 4.3

Jim Flanagan

UNIX

Justin Fletcher

You Oughta Know

Emmanuel Fleury

The Lords of the OS

Emmanuel Fleury

The GNU Imagine

Cathy Flint, Eric Griswold, Scott Neugroschl

American Pie --- Hacker Style (Bye Bye, Unix)

Jeremy Forsythe

Jesus don't want me for a Sun machine
Run as you are
What did you download last night?

Richard A. Fowell

Ode To Menu Systems

Abe Friedman & Sarah Elizabeth Miller

The Crash of the Ten and Eleven

?Bruce Gaya

Computer Man

Greg Gerke

DP Man

Laura Glenn

On our First Day on Usenet

Lynn Gold

Rudolph, the Emacs Hacker

Greywolf

Berkelian Rhapsody
The Programmer's Viewpoint

Douglas "URL" Hamilton

Once I Built a Website
Wired Lullaby

Karl Hansen

The User and the Programmer

Stephanie Hanus

CS Major

Tim Harris / Peter Glasscock / Christopher Poole

The Keys Don't Work

Seth Horne

0x7CC

Matthew S. Huber

It's The End Of Our DOS As We Know It

Bill Hudson

Fifty ways to Crash your Windows

Kevin Hughes

User

James

C++ Writer

Frankeye Jones

The Underfull Badness Blues

Carolyn Jorgensen

Standard COBOL Structure Form

Guy L. Steele Jr.

BBN Superlisp
Both Ways, Now
The HACTRN
I Could Have Tooled All Night
Lambda Bound
My Favorite Hacks
PLIate's Dream
Song of the Certified Data Processor
The Sound of FORTRAN
A Time for DWIM

Jonathan E. Katz

99 Buckets of Bits

Ken Kaufman

Network Pie

Kathy Kelley

The Engineer Song

Henry Kleine and Philip H. Roberts

Structured Programmer's Soliloquy

Knappy 8350428 @ UWAVM / decvax!utzoo!utcsrgv!roderick ?

Another Glitch in the Call

Marty Knight

A Visit from Saint Woz

Thomas Koenig

FORTRAN

Thomas Koenig, Hubert Schaefer

Script for a Hacker's Tear

Rich Kulawiec

Unix Quandry

Allan L

Windows 95

Bill Laubenheimer

Blow Out
COBOL Programmer's Swing
FORTRAN Programs
Ole McMowle

Rhys Lawton

Computer Worthy

Mirian Crzig Lennox

You can call me K6voA72JsP39Zq9j5llL

Anastasia Levin

If

Steven Levine

A Better Model

Bill Lindemann and David Lilienfeld

The Hacker's Battle Hymn

Maarten Loss

Tap My Wire

Mark Lottor

Gateway To Net Ten

N. R. "Norm" Lunde

The Day SunOS Died
Sendmail

Jonathon Luning

Don't Call From Home

MaJoC

81
The Advanced Player
Always Look on the Bright Side of DrOsS
Bohemian Warranty
A Brighter Grade of SAIL
Bring Back My Dump Tape To Me
Deep Hacker
Emacs the Elephant
Filking on a Sunday Afternoon
The First GNU
For Auld Free Time
The Girl Who Dreams In Ada
The Grand Young Leeson Dork
Hackingham Palace
I Am The Chorus
I'm In Love With My Clone
I've Got a Brand New Server Binary
If I had a SCSI
Keep Good Company
OS California
P()/V() Rendezvous
Perl White [ alternatives requested ]
Pick a Packet or Two
Purple Hacks
Sweet Server
The TeddyClones' Picnic
The Wizard's Song
World-Wide Wizard
You're My Checksum

Scott Malcomson

Kitty of North Tempe

Brian Marshall

Satan C Compiler
Write in C

Jamie Mason, Additions by Wayne Throop (...!mcnc!aurgate!throop)

Unix Wizard

Jamie Mason

The Swapper
Waiting for The Sun

WPI in Mass, modified by Charles LaBrec and friends

God Rest Ye CS Students

Pat McCornack (with help from Clement Clarke Moore) ?

A Visit from a Silicon Impostor

Mel

Twit the Assistant (the Mighty Twit)

R. Merryman

ARPAWOCKY

Sarah Elizabeth Miller

CPU Delight
Destruction
Hello, Solly
An Irish CPU
On the Net
Programs
When I'm Sixty Four

Sarah Elizabeth Miller, Abe Friedman, and Bill Lindemann

Those were the Days

Sarah Elizabeth Miller & Abe Friedman

Beautiful Program
Dasi, Dasi

Minstrel

Jack And The Y2K

Bill Mitchell

0x0d2c

Bruce Mitchell and Jim Bostwick

The RSX VMS Lovers Song ("Wow, there's lots of stuff on that VAX")

Bruce Mitchell

The RSX Backup Song ("Are we back up yet?")
The RSX Support Song ("Thank you for your SPR")

Wes Morgan

Socket Man

Brad Morrison

Unix Man

Alec David Muffett

CRAY-S's coolant
Fork()ing on a Sun

The Multitasker

Windows Post

Chuck Musciano

Addicted To Vi

Michael John Muuss

Monopoly

Pongpakon Nantasenamat

Coding In C
I Should Have Known AOL Better
Magical Mystery Bug

Brad Needham

The Bell Labs UNIX System
Code-a-lot
A Hacker's Lot
Has Anybody Seen My Code?
Kludging My Software
Little Boxes
The Modern Software Manager

Sharon Neeman

Windows '95

Curtis O'Brien

Headache or Windows 95'

Jonathan Partington

I am the very model of a Genius Computational

Al Pena

Fifty Ways to Hose Your Code

Aubrey Philipsz

P-I-F-FO

USian Pie

USian Pie

PMW, from DEC archives

Control-C Song

PMW & SG, from DEC archives

The Field Service Anthem
FORTRAN Song

David Pogue

The Bill Gates Song
Gil Amelio's Coming to Town!
God Rest Ye Copland Programmers
Happily Addicted to the Web
I'm Dreaming of a Clean System
LViolent Night
Microsoft
Prove It's So
The Sounds of Silence

Joel Polowin

The Bug Came Back

Mike Portuesi

Into the Tube

Daniel R. Reitman

El Internet Pasa

Walter B. Rhodes

Bill's Windows Swill
Crashware Toasting All Your Open Apps

John Rudd

Everyone's Free (to document their system)

Adam Sah

The Boys of HP

EllioTT Schiff

Intel inside
You Can't Rush the Net

Michael G Schwern

Coding in Ruby

SG & PMW, from DEC archives

LOGIN Song

SG, from DEC archives

I'm a PDP-10 Wizard

Alan Sherman (singer), transcribed by Russell Street

Automation

Daniel Silverstone

The boy who couldn't keep his girlfriends

Hedley Simons

Errors for Nothing

Jared Smith

Floppy in a Disk Drive

Jackie Soares

Object Oriented Programmer's Soliloquy

Douglas Spencer

A is for Apple

Bridget Spitznagel

The Algorithms Tango
All-Nighter Hell
A Core for Ecclesiastes

Guy L. Steele / D.E. Knuth

Telnet Song

Elf Sternberg

Addicted to News

Larry Stone

Friend of the System

Peter Street

Imagine

Russell Street

The DEC Man cometh
French Horn Concerto (for modem users)
I'm Typing Backwards for Christmas
SIGHUP Blues
VAX Raphosdy
What is a Hacker?

Andy Tannenbaum

VMUNIX Blues

Pat Terry

Ten little Modulans

Tony Thompson

Windows

David Tiberio

MP3 Killed the Media Star

Kristil Tillman

Microserf

Nathan Torkington

The Wall 2

Dave Touretzky and Don Libes

The Hacker's Song

EileenET Tronolone

Gateway To Heaven

Amy Turner

The Chilled Water Waltz

Unknown

The 12 computerised days of Xmas
Addicted to MUD
Another One
Are you a chataholic?
bbb+b
Boot It
Core dumped blues
CRASH! goes the System
Crasher's Song
The Data-comm Song
Dr. Seuss Explains
Emacs Wizard
EVER ONWARD, IBM
Girls just wanna defun
A Graphic Song (It's a commie plot)
I want an RT
I'd Like to Buy Magnetic Tape
JES The mighty system
Lonely Users
The Longest Path
A More Effective Manager
My Favorite Things
PC:s are PC:s
POOR PURE PERCY P
Programmer
Puff the Fractal Dragon
The Sounds of Science
SYSTEM CRASH
Take me Down to the SunLab
That was the HASP my friend
Twas the Night Before Implementation
When you try to get work from the data network
Will The Real Bruce Perens Please Stand Up
The Worm before Christmas

Sally Vandershaf

The Balad of Dumb of S***

Michael Weber

Rawhide

Ariel Weinberg

All Through the Net

Lauren Weinstein

The Day Bell System Died

Roy H. Wells

The Computer Nevermore

Steven Weyhrich & Doug Cuff

The Wreck of the Apple II

Steven Weyhrich

Apple II Pie
Hack, Hack, Hack
SCSI !

patrick widener

Can't parse this

Tony Williams and Bill Mulert

16 Bits

Michael Wilsker

Fsck'ed by you

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