not so much today, back in the 90s however it was really relevant. Computers were obsolete just a year or two after being bought. My mom had an old AMD K6 computer that was completely smoked in terms of speed by a Celeron 300Mhz. Shortly after getting our own computer I met a "friend" who had an actual pentium, boy was that fast compared to our 486, but in just a few years we had a computer faster than it for cheap Hell it was so bad it wasnt uncommon to see old computers tossed out to the side of the curb for anyone to pick up.
@@sipp8741 hey, well if spec improvements over baseline start accelerating that’s a High quality problem to have 😸 I just got home from a manufacturing, ai, processing and robotics expo in Tokyo. There are exciting things coming.
@@Sovek86 About 6 months ago I built a new PC, with a Ryzen 5 1500X It was obsolete before I even turned it on, but I knew that, it was a good upgrade from a Phenom II
YES, It's open architecture software! Not much is actually "dated" at all in the song. Only "Pentium" and "defragging" would be considered "dated" (and even defragging is STILL a "thing" if one still uses a magnetic HDD). This STILL holds up, AMAZING for a video parody about tech! It IS retro 90's and yet STILL relevant! And STILL AGAIN, It's musically 100x better than the boring droning song that it's a parody of! AL is a LEGEND!
I know people keep saying this but, damn is it still relevant what he's saying. Most people don't even have 100 GB but the few who got the money for it can have way more than that.
I business leased a new computer. Last month I bought a home computer: Corei7 TitanX 32GB of DDR3 At my office: 6700k with Titan X running 3 monitors and 128GB of DDR4. I honestly see no fucking difference till I edit video.
+bigtruckseriesreview 8GB is really enough for today's things and gaming, only hardcore rendering utilises more than 8GB. I honestly laugh at any gamer saying their PC is better with 16 gig than 8 Gig.
@@thehunterator520 there were a few, but they had super low clock speeds. a lot of super computers have a side bus that is super large but really slow for dealing with large files like pictures of galaxies billions of light years away. like in the double digit MHz range.
@@TheLionAndTheLamb777 yea, technology from the past is always weird. i remember, even just a few years ago, my 5ghz cpu was being out done by cpu's with only 3ghz, because multi-threading allowed a doubling of cores and thus doubling of power.
He had help from his drummer as he himself is not a big computer guy or at least he was not at the time the song came out. He had to get help with computer terms from the drummer but yeah still good song.
Did the drummer see the stupidity I saw? 286's were the bomb in the late 80's/early 90's. I was perfectly happy hacking my way into whatever with my 286 until '97, nobody used them but as jokes, even hackers had moved on so it was a pretty bombproof system for logging into networks and entertaining myself.
Quit your bullshit. 286 was just a CPU architecture. It had nothing to do with the OS. Regardless of when you had one it would be the same as any other PC, just slower.
He obviously has hip to tech AND the culture behind the tech., there's not a lot that is dated in this! It's only became MORESO. Al is a LEGEND! And, it blows "All about the Benjimans" OUT OF THE WATER!
Reminds me of my first computer. It was WOW: had a 100-meg hard drive! A lot of people didn't have hard drives yet. Everything was on floppies. Yes, it was a 286.
Hell yeah especially for a PC.. i've installed 256 gig of ram in an HP blade server and i think that's the highest configuration they have to offer today
Some of it doesn't but most of it does. For instance: - Y2K reference, obviously - While not common, 100GB of RAM is no longer unrealistic (back then it'd be the equivalent to saying 100TB today), I own systems with 128GB - 40" monitor - I know people with larger, this is no longer unrealistic - You don't defrag SSDs - T1s aren't fast (to be fair, this came from a misconception even then, as they weren't fast back then either -- this video is from 1999, cable Internet came out in 1995 and by 1999 it was at speeds around 2+Mbps, T1 is only 1.5Mbps, he should have said T3 [44Mbps] or if he wanted something unrealistic OC-768 or OC-[any large number] for extra unrealism) - Ctrl+Alt+Del no longer does what it used to on Windows. (Which, imo, is bad. It performed an essential function that Microsoft, for whatever reason, decided wasn't important.) - And the most glaring, Pentium is no longer the top of the Intel line. "It's all about the core i9s" doesn't quite have the same ring to it though. These are the ones I remember, there may be more. Most of it holds up pretty well though. Hell, some of the insults gain additional weight because the technology referenced is even older now.
@@Vengir Ctrl+Alt+Del used to be uninterruptable and paused all running applications. That is to say, unless the OS itself was locked up it *always* worked. That is no longer the case and applications can interfere with it negating its use in application-locked scenarios. For instance: Say you are playing a game in full screen. The game locks up. The game has exclusive control of the GPU, so ctrl+alt+del and ctrl+alt+esc do nothing since the game is refusing to release control of the GPU (because it has locked up). The old Ctrl+Alt+Del would say f*** you to anything and take complete control to offer a task list allowing you to recover the session. Now, a game locking up results in having to hard reboot the system, even if the OS itself and other applications are still responsive (often indicated by background activity noises, such as Discord notifications). Basically, ctrl+alt+del used to be more than a simple task manager. It allowed you to recover from a borked system. The new Task Manager does not do what the old Ctrl+Alt+Del did, it serves as nothing more than a keyboard shortcut for lazy people while it used to be useful for recovering the system from lockups.
What do you mean, "no repeating chorus"? The "all about the Pentiums" lines, followed by the "wanna be hackers? code crackers?" section is absolutely a repeating chorus. If you just mean that the verses don't repeat, then yeah, obviously. That's what makes them verses.
@@emeryvr No, you can't. You can get a Mac and upgrade it with over 1tb of RAM if you want to pay extra, but you can also do that with a PC. Nobody sells computers with 1tb of RAM, except maybe Alienware.
Only if you're not running multiple VMs and/or your entirely virtualized PoC netstack processing realtime mirrored traffic. Hell....sometimes 1TB might not be enough
Al's probably the only guy who could make a rap video where the half-naked dancers end up being literally the least memorable part. It took me watching this on repeat a dozen times before I realized they were there, looking lovely and throwing down the moves just as hard as the man, himself.
LOL seriously, I wanted to look at those wonderful synchronized beauties but Al took my attention 100% elsewhere. They might as well have not been there.
@@morisan42 it kinda has ,tell me when I can expect a 9ghz cpu? It won't be in 18 months And what will they do after they reach 1nm? If they can even achieve that Quantum tunneling is not going to be able to be overcome ,the most they can do now is advanced layering but for how long?
@@andreamitchell4758 lol you don't understand moore's law, moore's law states that the possible number of transistors on a microchip doubles every 2 years, that has nothing to do with cpu clock speed. Currently we are actually going faster than moore's law
A few references probably wouldn't be understood by the youngest generation. Heck most people wouldn't know what alt newsgroups are anymore. Dial up internet would be lost on most zoomers as well.
Al not only writes the lyrics, but he writes and directs the videos. Al is a great song writer, (check out his amazing original songs,) lyricist, writer, (2 of his childrens books are NYT best sellers,) performer, and directer. Under rated doesn't come close to describing this man.
I believe if anyone is deserving of a life time achievement award it is Al, without a doubt. He has remained more relevant than any performer of any type of craft for decades. The level of intellect in his parodies is unmatched. He has better flow than most performers including rappers and his ensamble are always top tier performers as well. One of the pop culture G.O.A.T s
I agree, although fwiw the NYT best sellers list means nothing. It's a curated list, which basically means they just pick and choose what to put on it. It counts for nothing.
lol, how the times have changed... Apple- "Introducing... The iPhone 8!!" Fans- "Whooo!!!" Fans- "What's changed since the iPhone 7?" Apple-" now it comes in color red and we removed wireless charging!" Fans- "Innovation!" "Brilliance!" "Stunning!"
Al was smart to make the specs exaggerated so this song wouldn't become dated fast. 100GB of ram sounded out of this world in 1999, and in 2016 it'd still be pretty amazing.
I do some DNA analysis on my blade which has 3TB of ram, lol. my home computer only has 64gb though. although his 32 bit reference was dated almost 10 years ago. t1 was also dated 10 or so years ago(only 1.5mbps, which most people get with their 2g phones lol)
it's ram vs performance. In this way, we can align an entire 30x oversampled genome in less than 8 hours. Most people boast a week for that size of data.
@@josephkreifelsii6596 I wouldn't say always. It's already slowing down, but man, being caught up with the tech back in late 90s' - early to mid 2000s was HELL.
@@GoodGamer3000 Intel is trash AMD is where its at, not to mention a beastly setup costs abt 500 GPU and CPU wise and will last you a while. Good parts killed it, not Shitel
@@OvSpP The motto for apple (at least back when Steve Jobs was in charge) was "think different". So his biggest rival having a mug that was the direct opposite of that is clever
@@RutabegaNG It's the majority at this point. I mean, Al's first album was in 1983 and his most recent was 2014, but he dropped a single in 2018. His career is literally over 30 years old - and not the 30 years old of groups like 98 Degrees where they just tour and keep playing their old stuff for their fans. Al keeps getting scores of new fans whenever he releases a new album.
@@bobdole4916 Anybody observed AL during an interview? He listens with 100% focus. He never interrupts. He answers directly each question in the order it was posed. When asked a question, he'll often respond, "Thanks for asking." He always gives people his undivided attention. He's very smart. He's also a compassionate guy. It's small wonder AL seems to have transcended the decades. I love AL and his cool band!!!
"Your waxing your modem trying to make it go faster" and "They call me the king of the spreadsheets Got 'em printed out on my bedsheets" are absolute gold.
Nice of Al to provide a visual for what a "floppy disk" is, in case there might ever be some unfathomably distant future in which nobody ever used them anymore....
It's a diskette. People called 'em floppies because they replaced the 8" floppy disk, which, unlike the diskette, would actually flop if you waved it in the air. Diskettes were a harder plastic.
The Kinks give you both an upvote "I think I'm sophisticated 'Cause I'm living my life like a good homosapien But all around me, everybody's multiplying And they're walking round like flies man So I'm no better than the animals sitting in their cages In the zoo man Because compared to the flowers and the birds and the trees I am an Apeman"
My primary email is still my AOL account that I opened 20 years ago. People laugh at me when they find out, but I figure if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
@@kosmasraptis8374 The compute modules for the system I work on have capacities in excess of a terabyte of RAM. None of the machines I actually use have more than 192GB, though.
@@Reddsoldier 100GB of DDR 200MHz RAM cant really beat a modern set of 16GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM. Added to the fact that we have PCIE SSD's now... which completely stomp over the RAM technology of that time. I could pagefile my 1tb NVMe and still be faster than ddr 200mhz. Then you have to realize that the computers of that time were largely limited to maximum 32-bit instructions. Even the cheapest modern CPU's can do 64-bit instructions. The difference here comes down to how much RAM each of these can address. 32 being limited to around 4GB. 64-bit can theoretically address up to 18,446,744,073GB of RAM. Yeah... no, his 2 decade old PC would be good as junk today
+Paul Trieglaff Really? Same guys the entire time? Was it always the same number or did he add more as he became more popular? Not trolling, actually curious.
+Paul Trieglaff It's amazing to me to look back across the last three decades these guys (John 'Bermuda' Schwartz, Jim West and Steve Jay) have played every single style of pop music imaginable. From Michael Jackson, to Madonna, to Nirvana, to The Doors, to Lady Gaga, to Coolio, to Don McLean, to Puff Daddy, to Chamillionare, to Devo, to The White Stripes. Honestly, the band is amazingly versatile and as much a reason for Weird Al's success as his own insane genius. The fact that they have been together since the early 80's is mythic in a way. Absolutely mind-blowing.
At least I can still perfectly use most my equipment on a 2009 Windows 7 PC. I cannot say the same for the iMac which is stuck on El Capitan with zero software support.
Wierd Al sings he got T1, 100GB of RAM and flat screen monitor 40 inches wide. 20+ years later, finally got the 1GBit line, flat screen monitor 60 inches wide and going for the 100GB ram, my childhood fantasy quest of having the computer Wierd Al sings about, soon will be reality.
@@briandougherty9110 if you grew up in those days, it was the golden age of computer tech, companies actively competing against eachother to push the most MHz on tier CPU's, ATI, 3dfx, Nvidia also fought, tooth and nail. I remember picking up PC gamer with my dad and getting those demo disks. When we moved from the UK to California, we discovered Fryz. Now, what was a teenage PC gamers dream, is now going bankrupt. Tech has advanced so quickly, I couldn't keep up, after the p4 ht I gave up trying to learn the newest chips cards ect.
Yeah Weird Al's parodies are sometimes better known nowadays than the originals. "I Lost on Jeopardy" (parody of "Jeopardy" by The Greg Kihn Band) is another example.
You know, if you listen to white and nerdy before this song, a story comes out about how a nerd who wanted to become a gangster who ends up becoming a kickass hacker. An internet gangster as it were.
Weird Al is truly a NATIONAL TREASURE! His lyrics and performances are amazingly SPOT ON! The relevance of this particular video 30 years later boggles my mind! 🤯
It was much more noticable in the late 90's though. A a high end computer would be potato trash just 2 years later. Especialy graphics cards were jumping very quickly.
I have not heard this song since childhood, but the phrase “They call me the king of the spreadsheets; I’ve got them all printed out on my bedsheets” is still a part of my daily vocabulary. It almost made it into my Tinder bio.
"Hey fella, I bet you're still livin' in your parents' cellar Downloadin' pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar And postin' "me too" like some brain-dead AOL-er I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller You're just about as useless as JPEGs to Hellen Keller" Probably one of my favourite verses ever, this is some comedic rhyming genius right there
The most amazing part of this whole song is the fact that a vast number of the computer terms he speaks of are still pretty valid. Like, 15 years later, we're still using 16 GB of RAM as a somewhat standard, 30" flat screen monitors are common place, there's still a lot of 32 bit software, AOL still sucks, T1 lines being commonplace (although T1 (1.5 Mbps) is pretty slow nowadays, with basic broadband usually coming in at 10 Mbps as a standard). Al thought this one through.
The only thing he says that's outdated is the thing about the Usenet newsgroup. No one knows what those are anymore. Unless that's part of the joke; I'm not sure if people knew what they were in 1999, either.
It was part of the joke. Casual AoL users of the time wouldn't know what Usenet was, and techies would know it's a joke about how Usenet wasn't really a hot spot in the late 90s and thus used by the kind of troglodyte Al was dissing.
+Jonny Watts - I was still using USENET in '99 for more technical information and questions on the kind of esoteric comms stuff I was working on at the time. At 7 years old, the web was still kind of either pure academia or mindless nonsense. These days, it's clear the nonsense won out. :-)
new rule: anytime the original artist is revealed to be a terrible person, the weird al parody becomes an original song. so anyway this is one of my favorite weird al originals
But quite available in stores. When a good usual gaming PC has 32 or 64, it's already very close. And the motherboard supports up to 192. We've come to a time, gentlemen, where we're all Pentiums, baby.
Derpancakes The OS can recognize it and somewhat utilize it, but anything after 4 gigs is generally not going to be fully utilized. Windows took care of this by just hard limiting it. Theres some tricks you can use to get past it, if my memory serves (Its been an eternity since I have used a 32-bit system though)
The 32-bit limitation both is and isn't a software problem and hardware problem. Early Windows servers, such as Windows 2000 Advanced and Datacenter editions, could handle up to 8GB and 32GB, respectively. Keep in mind this was 15 years ago, when this video came out. However this was on server-class hardware and software. The CPU required PAE support, which was a hardware change, and the OS required the same support. That doesn't include the chipset support required to support that amount of RAM, which traditionally is where the actual RAM limit comes from. Consumer hardware wasn't worth it to increase until 64-bit. Even still, no single application could address more than 4GB of RAM, only the kernel could. This means many applications can be in RAM at the same time. So it aided multitasking, or having multiple services running, which is why servers used it.
@@mikakorhonen5715 I wish I had a Pentium Pro, but they usually sell for like 40 to 50€ where I live because they are used to get gold out of them. And mainboards are even more expensive. Edit: I finally got a Pentium Pro with a Server Motherboard that takes Buffered ECC EDO DIMMs (obscure server RAM).
my frankenstien ancient pc has an 'Evil Inside' intel parody sticker on it... the other one has 'Goatway' over the gateway logo... i have lots of fun altering shyte. the new one is an 'Apevia'... I just call it apeshit
