Net Filk

Last updated January 18, 2001.

Filks about networks, including the Web.

• The 12 Days of Blogging by Brad L. Graham
• 404: Not Found by Dave Weingart
• Addicted to News by the infamous Elf Sternberg
• Addicted to VI by Chuck Musciano
• Alice's NNTP Server by Nil Illegitimo Carborundum
• All for Me Web by Anitra L. Freeman
• All You Need by Steve Martin
• AOL- The Day the Service Died by Seth D. Palmer. Also at at Wrecked Humor.
• ARPAwocky by D.L. Covill (R. Merryman). Also at Poppyfields.
• The Ballad of Ozzie McNutt by Francis C. Parker, Jr.
• Banned from Fido by Mike Richards and Erica Neely
• Block of AGIS by Joel Polowin
• Bye-Bye, Little Black Napster Guy by Colleen O'Rourke
• Cancer and Slimeball by Rich Brown. Also at Maggi Rohde's.
• CDA by Gary Ehrlich
• Crackin' RSA by Terence Chua
• The Curse of Many Filks by Aquarion (Nicholas Avenell). AFP's Tagging FAQ rewritten as a filk.
• Daddy's Other Little Girl by Bob Kanefsky
• Dazed and Confused by Willard Goosey
• Deep Space, Cyberspace by Bob Kanefsky
• Defects for Nothing by Philip Johnson
• A Different Kind of Survivor by Tom Smith
• Do You Come from the Land of Abthite? by Tom Holt
• Elanor Rigby (with computer filk lyrics) by Robert Munafo (MROB)
• Enter Shub-Internet by Willard Goosey
• Every File You Take by Speare (Ed Halley)
• Filk de Whinges by Meryl
• Filk Echo Rules by Dave Aronson
• Flame Keep scrolling past "It's Called a Dart"
• The Flamer by Spatula. There's also a copyhere.
• Hacker's Paradise by Aloyen C. Youngblood.
• Happily Addicted to the Web by David Pogue. Also (uncredited) at Smurf's Book of Songs, Catweasel's Corner, The Internet Songbook, and about 612 other places.
• Help, I'm Trapped on the Internet! by John K. Stevenson
• Hi-De-Ho by Tim Park
• Honoria in Ciberspazio An opera libretto (in English) written by the Net.
• Horny Net Geek by Edward Goldstein
• HoTMeaLs on the Loose by Lee Ratzan
• I Am the Very Model of a Usenet Personality by Tom Holt. Also atComic Relief and here.
• I'm a Luser by Kevin Hughes
• I'm a Spammer by Dave Aronson
• I'm a Sysadmin by Martin Booda
• I'm a User by Dave Aronson
• If I Were a Spammer by Rich Brown, alsoat Maggi Rohde's.
  Another version by Jon LeVitre, andIf I Had a Spammer by DfrntDrums
• If I Were a Spammer
• Interlingo Uncredited.
• The IRC Song
• It's All for Me Web by Anitra
• JATO by Rich Brown. The famous Darwin Awards urban legend.
• Jesus Christ Superhighway: "alt.sex on their minds" Scroll down past "Two Strangers" and "Dilithium Rhapsody".
• A Little Procmail List Author unknown.
• Losing My Connection by Alan Zacher
• Mailing List
• Makeout Dot Com by Tom Smith
• Mystery Usenet Theater 3000
• Net.Sex.Overload by Dave Weingart
• The Newbie's Song by Dan Rogers. Also atWrecked Humor and Comic Relief.
• On Our First Day on Usenet by Laura Glenn
• On-Line Religion by Tom Smith
• The Penguin Matchmaking Song by Sibylle Machat
• The Plaid Days of Christmas, from the Plaid Ranch House list. Um. Well. Sounds like a fun list, don't it?
• Postmaster Blues by Nick Cuccia and Hillary
• The Ravin' by Joe Kesselman
• Recursive Flaming by Dave Aronson. Also atOmphalos.
• Read More News by Willard Goosey
• Rude Forever! by Voyagerbabe
• Semi-poetic Justice: We've Grepped a Little List by Daniel P. Dern
• <"http://www.starport.com/people/steve/Doc/Songs/net.html">Someplace in the Net by Steve Savitzky, alsoat Maggi Rohde's
• A Song for AOL and Demon by Dave Weingart. Scroll down.
• A Song for UseNet by Steve Shipway, with a sequel by Simon the Stressed
• Songs from the Zen Room by Arthur Levesque. Filks about a Rocky Horror chat room.
• Sonnet for Nothing by Jude Charles Giampaolo. Banking networks.
• Spam Spam Spam by Tom Smith, withMIDI
• Spamalot by Stewart Kramer
• Stuck in the Middle of Feuds by Aquarion (Nicholas Avenell)
• Surf This Web by Dave Weingart
• Surfin' World Wide Web! by Jeffrey Aaron
• Sympathy for the Hacker by Amy L. Ward. Also at Basham5.org.
• The Sysop's Song by Beth Wheeler
• The rec.arts.books.tolkien Tilde Club Anthem by Prembone
• Till Daddy Takes Her Keyboard Away by Rachel Silverman
• Trn, Trn, Trn...For Everything There Is a Newsgroup by Mark Maimone
• The Troll by Wallonia and Mole (Paul Smith)
• 'Twas the Cyber Night Before Christmas. Uncredited.
• 'Twas the Night Before K5Mas by mdxi
• Usenet by Joshua Bell
• Usenet News Blues Author unknown
• The Usenet Troll Song by Jacob Sommer
• The Usenetter Song by Aquarion (Nicholas Avenell)
• Very Wishful Thinking by Dave Weingart, also at Dave's page.
• Video Killed the Internet by Dave Weingart
• Web Surfin' by Allison Durno
• Why You Can't Get alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.spam by Dave Weingart
• Wonder Web
• The Worm Before Xmas by Clement C. Morris (aka David Bradley, Betty Cheng, Hal Render, Greg Rogers, and Dan LaLiberte)

Songbooks

• alt.devilbunnies Filk
• alt.sysadmin.recovery Songs from the Scary Devil Monastery.
• Computer Christmas Carols at Negaduck's Comic Relief. Uncredited.
• Computer Filk at The Black Book of Locksley. Zipped file.
• Bruce Dern's Internet Song Parodies Those dern filkers!
• Brian Dunlap's Humor Page
• Filkers Unanimous, also accepting contributions at the bottom of the page.
• The Internet Songbook. Good collection.
• Humor Central
• Joy Green's Miscellaneous and alt.fan.pratchett Filks
• The Internet Songbook
• kite.com's directory.
• Laugh Along with GNU
• Nerd Songs
• The OxIRC Filk Project
• Paul Phillips
• Poppyfields. Probably the largest collection of computer filks out there. You must see it to believe it.
• PRAHCreation Computer Filk by PRAHC.
• Silly Computer Songs
• Steve Savitzky's Songs
• Sysadmin Songs
• Techno-Filk Songs by Isaac Bonewits
• The Ultimate Parody Site's songs aboutBill Gates and Microsoft
• UNIX songs
• Jeff Vinocur's CS Filks
• Zipped collection of computer songs

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