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My favorite line in that song is "you're just about as useless as JPEGs to Helen Keller". I wonder how many listeners realized that, intentionally or not, he was referring to a major web accessibility problem there.
I imagine many are also able to identify with "White and Nerdy": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw
I've got some kind of greatest hits compilation of his, and I'm really disappointed that wasn't included.
I would also advise listening in a context where you have the lyrics on hand, or listening very carefully. It isn't just some random guy using computer terms that happen to sound good; he knew his stuff. There's a correctly-done NNTP newsgroup joke in there, for pete's sake, and even at the time it was a number of years after that was topical.
“There's a correctly-done NNTP newsgroup joke in there, for pete's sake, and even at the time it was a number of years after that was topical.”

Not only that — it’s part of the joke! The nameless “you” who’s being dissed in the song is so much of a loser that their newsgroup is “alt.total.loser” and that they’re proud of having their own newsgroup at all when they NNTP is already ancient history to the narrator who views themselves as on the cutting edge of technology in 1999.

It's all about the pentiums is one of those parodies where I have never heard the original. Still a good song.
Thank you for this. There's not enough rock-rap about computer architecture.