Tech Tunes

Top 10 tech tunes of the '70s and '80s


Recently, David Bowie launched his very own streaming music Web site, BowieRadio. It will stream songs from Bowie's extensive repertoire and other famous rock artists. We applaud this attempt to usher the great hits of times past into the Internet Age. However, we don't think Mr. Bowie has taken this Web radio station idea far enough, so we decided to update some of our favorite rock tunes of the '70s and '80s for this new era. Sing along:

1 Don't LAN So Close to Me
Sting fights back when a neighbor starts hogging his bandwidth.

2 .Com Sail Away
Styx chronicles the demise of Silicon Valley.

3 Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
Boy George's impassioned plea to keep Windows XP from obliterating its less-stable predecessor.

4 Goody Two Boots
"Must be something inside..." Adam Ant's ode to the reboot.

5 URLs Just Want to Have Fun
Cyndi Lauper shows socially challenged Webmasters how to party.

6 Sitting on the Stock of eBay
Definitely wasting time.

7 ASCII's Song
John Denver sings "89/111/117 102/105/108/108 117/112 109/121 115/101/110/115/101/115..."

8 Pop-up Don't Preach
Madonna takes a stand against overbearing advertisers.

9 We Are the World Wide Web
Quincy Jones and Lionel Ritchie's attempt to raise money for starving dot-commers.

10 Billy G.
Michael Jackson denies having an improper relationship with Bill Gates.