"Weird Al" Yankovic - It's All About The Pentiums (Official Video)

[@tmzolf]

Somehow, this video manages to be completely timeless while simultaneously being the most "late 90s" thing in existence.

[@jamesslick4790]

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!

[@jswajsberg]

@@jamesslick4790 newsgroups (alt.totalloser) are also not really a thing anymore.

[@jamesslick4790]

@@jswajsberg They kinda live on in things like Subreddits.

[@DrDeuteron]

zietgeist bro...the time ghost.

[@shcubadupa24]

kinda like the matrix

[@victorluisandrade5251]

"If I ever meet you I´ll Ctrl-Alt-Delete you" is up there with the best line in rap history

[@raven4k998]

it's ok just throw your 286 away for a Pentium🤣🤣🤣

[@QueenetBowie]

Also “I oughta cap you like old yeller, You’re just about as useless as JPEG’s to Helen Keller.” Is pretty solid as well

[@KirtSchleicher]

Didn't Epic Rap Battles of History borrow this line with Skrillex vs Beethoven?

[@KoolKeithProductions]

​​@@QueenetBowie"...while your computer's crashing, mine's multitasking. It does all my work without me even ASKING..." 😂

[@naplesbluesrt]

the Helen Keller put me on my knees lol

[@turle8645]

“It was obsolete before I opened the box” Is the most accurate prediction anyone has ever made about technology

[@Sovek86]

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.

[@futsuu]

Less accurate today than when this came out.

[@sipp8741]

@@futsuu don't worry they're working on getting us back to those days

[@futsuu]

@@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.

[@RowanBird779]

@@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

[@mikecox1974]

It takes real talent to be able to parody all the different genres there are and do it so freaking well. Love Weird Al since back in the 80s, dude has a neverending supply of source material.

[@marigold3687]

I was thinking how smart he is to be able to make parodies that make so much sense.

[@MrMoneyclips]

Due to the nature of technology the severity of the insults in this song are amplified as time passes.

[@torchiest]

MrMoneyclips And 100GB of RAM is still impressive... for now.

[@PassportBrosBusinessClass]

+torchiest DUDE you can get 128GB of DDR4.

[@torchiest]

bigtruckseriesreview Yeah and that's damn impressive!

[@PassportBrosBusinessClass]

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.

[@AutopsyGremlin]

+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.

[@2BChaos]

I love how the burn level of “you could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette” has only increased over time. Al really is a genius 😄

[@jamesslick4790]

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!

[@Cuzjudd]

This is the best comment on the Internet

[@marshwetland3808]

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.

[@overnightdelivery]

@@marshwetland3808 So were you able to boot up Windows 95 in a day and a half?

[@marshwetland3808]

@@overnightdelivery I don't think it was Win95. It was Win 3.1. And I didn't bother putting it on my first computer. I just used DOS.

[@izzyosborn637]

This song’s 20 years old and weird Al’s still got more RAM than me...

[@thehunterator520]

I want to see a computer with 100 gbs of ram from the 90s

[@megauser8512]

lol

[@NoESanity]

@@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]

@@NoESanity I remember back in the 90's I read about a supercomputer that ran at 200Mhz! It had over 200 processors though.

[@NoESanity]

@@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.

[@desmond1776]

T1 home line, 100 GB of RAM, 40 inch flat screen - 2022 and still outrageous. He future-proofed this song better than any movie.

[@Sight-Beyond-Sight]

Except the T1 line (1.5 Megabit). Current lines go 1,000 times faster now. I work in a datacenter with 4x 100 gigabit uplinks (redundancy).

[@TheLongWind]

100gb of ram is pretty nice, although it was probably the first generation of DDR.

[@Sight-Beyond-Sight]

@@TheLongWind Nah, that predates DDR and was probably 72 pin SDRAM

[@MarvinPowell1]

@@Sight-Beyond-Sight Yeah, but that's a commercial line. A T1 line in a private home is still fast as hell.

[@duboc42]

@@MarvinPowell1 my home line is around 300 Mbps

[@gamingwildlife]

100 gigabytes of ram? Shit, that's still fucking huge.

[@ihavevigors4742]

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

[@kosmokat111]

holly2799 oh and you have...TELL US OH GREAT BOOB MASTER AS WE ARE FAR TOO INEPT TO EVER SEDUCE A WOMAN!!!

[@kosmokat111]

holly2799 btw I have seen boobs... they are nice

[@holly2799]

What the actual fuck? lmao

[@DarkSlayer9587]

not realy...

[@WilliamMcCarthyIII]

"I don't feed trolls and I don't read spam" Weird Al's lyrics may be 17 years old but they still hold true to this day.

[@bengercak8391]

Crazy to think the term "troll" was used in 1999.

[@Nightwishmaster]

+EdFan 287 Well yeah, the internet has been around for decades and a lot of things haven't changed at all in certain ways.

[@bengercak8391]

+PhunkyPhishPhan True. I was born in 2000, so I unfortunately never got to expirence the beginning of the internet.

[@Nightwishmaster]

Ah, fair enough. I wasn't trying to be condescending btw. While the popularity of the internet has obviously exploded in recent years with the invention of facebook and stuff like that a lot of things really haven't changed much. I've been a member of the Tippmann paintball forum for example since 2001 and even though it's slowed way down a lot of the same people from 10+ years ago are all still around, a bunch of us still hang in an IRC chat that has been around since the early 2000s. 15 years later and a lot of things are still exactly the same as they were when I was 13 and just getting in to paintball. So in some ways, sure things are totally different, but in others it really hasn't changed a lot. It is kind of weird to think about though.... It's nice that computer technology has leveled off A LOT and that your computer isn't entirely obsolete 6 months after you got it..

[@bengercak8391]

+PhunkyPhishPhan It's ok. I didnt take your message in a mean way. I do find web 1.0 fascinating. And it's amazing how much reminits of it remain today.

[@LeonMire]

I've probably watched this 20 times, but I just noticed at 1:02 Bill Gate's coffee mug says "Think similar." I died.

[@kwijung]

RIP

[@OcarinaGuy978]

+Nano Boyut that's why apple is trying to be like Samsung right?

[@koga924]

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!"

[@bitboy6420]

koga924 I know, everyone’s got a iPhone these days. If someone had a windows phone, THAT would be different.

[@wreckedcarzz]

@@bitboy6420 my Lumia 1520 makes sad noises from inside the drawer it lives in 😔

[@adamgentile9714]

We gotta recognize this guy as a legit rapper…That Helen Keller line is just straight savage…

[@gretchen8100]

That Hellen Keller line is still my favorite insult. 😎

[@arbiterskiss6692]

Sickest burns you ever heard in rap.

[@MerchManDan]

I remember Al on the Arsenio Hall Show in the mid-90s, describing rap as a natural progression of music. First, rock'n'roll was invented for kids who couldn't sing very well, then rap was invented for kids who couldn't sing at all 😁

[@zimriel]

@@MerchManDan I saw that too :^x

[@marvelousmrjohn]

I once told a mf that his argument was as useless as jpegs to Helen Keller. Didn't even rhyme it with anything else. Bruh was so mad all he responded with was a generic "yo momma." This line slaps.

[@danielpowers662]

Only Weird Al could write a song about technology in 1999 and have it still be relevant in 2016.

[@Maugena]

Yeah, jesus christ. Exactly what I was thinking, lol. Looked old as hell but up to par for terminology.

[@AndrewJamison79]

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.

[@carenhall2066]

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.

[@Twistedpeppermint99]

Exactly..he is an amazing artist.

[@kwijung]

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.

[@zoeym4868]

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.

[@Saviola0077]

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

[@allamericananti-christ666]

Guy was valedictorian of his high school. At sixteen.

[@noxious89123]

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.

[@zoeym4868]

@@noxious89123 The NYT best sellers list is based on how many books are sold. Al sold enough books to be listed as a best seller, nox.

[@Orphioux]

Being so insanely talented in the arts really left him no option but to be weird.

[@FourthDerivative]

22 years later, this holds up disturbingly well.

[@andreamitchell4758]

because Moore's law has hit the wall

[@morisan42]

@@andreamitchell4758 it actually hasn't

[@andreamitchell4758]

@@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?

[@morisan42]

@@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

[@brentw6533]

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.

[@beardedgaming1337]

to make an entire song with no repeating chorus - about computer tech and have it meaningful and smooth - truly a legend

[@safffff1000]

Same in white and Nerdy

[@Gamer2k4]

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.

[@fiercekrypton]

How do you make an entire song about computers and technology and all of it holds up 20 years later?

[@fireman_17]

Weird Al should totally remix his song to update it.. 🤘

[@Ancyker]

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]

@@Ancyker What functions of Ctrl+Alt+Del are you referring to? Task Manager can be opened with Ctrl+Shift+Esc.

[@Ancyker]

@@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.

[@ironman5034]

It is common knowledge that weird al time travels

[@thepixeldad6863]

"You're about as useless as JPEG's to Helen Keller". That's just about my favorite lyric of any song, ever.

[@flohough1870]

Same!!!

[@dhaucoin]

Followed by, 'I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller' That, my friends, is a new species of 'brutal'

[@gillyac81]

Also love "I got me 100 gb's of RAM, I never feed trolls and I don't read Spam" 😂

[@RobMacKendrick]

I'll see you that and raise you "Cap ya like Old Yeller". I'm like, "Ouch!"

[@elebrony]

"In a 32-bit world, you're a two-bit user."

[@kevindie]

*_”If I ever meet chu, I’ll ctrl-alt-delete chu._* *_That’s actually a pretty savage line. LOL_*

[@redclark1257]

i got banned from 3 games for using it... Ultima Online, waaay back, Guild Wars, and World of Warcraft, worst game I ever played

[@CountessExplosivo]

@@redclark1257 Ultima Online! God. I miss that so much.

[@DragonlordVindi]

Sounds like lyrics from a slice of life anime op. chu

[@Sirkento]

🤣🤣

[@MasterLond]

@@redclark1257 why?

[@TDawgBR]

25 years later and this song still slaps. And surprisingly not all the references are outdated.

[@KaneRobot]

100GB of RAM is still overkill in 2020. Al is ahead of the game.

[@zimriel]

but on a 32 bit processor? good thing he's multicore

[@VitZ9]

@@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.

[@mandi8345]

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

[@beardedgaming1337]

i only got 128gb last year...

[@onthefence928]

@Brad Bowers not consumer desktops, but a server rack probably could, with multiple multi-core CPUs

[@ptrd4111]

You really gotta respect Al for his dedication to knowing his topic.

[@Deloreanfan1981]

Just when you think the video can't get any better, the random Drew Carey cameo takes it to a whole different level.

[@QueenetBowie]

Lol remember when he was randomly on the sims and it just made it better for some reason

[@ChristineNighting]

Everyone is talking about the tech, but the thing that really ages this video is Drew Carey 😂

[@gregking5007]

You mean Tom Arnold

[@iricandescence]

Yes, that's Tom Arnold.

[@moneyninja3852]

Yeah, I thought it was Tom Arnold. Not Drew Carey. Thanks for clarifying.@@gregking5007

[@rodbelding9523]

I've been revisiting a lot of Weird Al's songs and this seriously might be his most underrated. The lyrics are insane, this song goes hard.

[@christophergarza9118]

Yes! Underrated indeed! Seeing as I was 14 years old when this came out, I didn’t appreciate

[@mkmstillstackin]

💯, my favorite of his for sure!

[@y2andru]

"While your computers crashing, mines multitasking. It does all the work without me even asking." My god, that's gold.

[@empath69]

Marshall Mathers? Pffft. I think we all know who the REAL Rap God is...

[@flyingsnow00]

:D i dont think he was considering ai, but today it's so ironic

[@kiralynch2423]

I think the lyric is "It dug out my worm without me even asking".

[@kerryhumphries4373]

@@empath69 It aint Marshall

[@musicloverme3993]

While my computer gently sleeps...

[@donb6897]

"got a flat screen monitor 40 inches wide" the lyric was a joke back then... now it's a reality.

[@kosmasraptis8374]

Also "I got me 100GB of RAM"

[@Reddsoldier]

His 20 year old pc is better than what most of us have... Just imagine what rig he's running these days.

[@fjccommish]

Just one?

[@jonathanguthrie9368]

@@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.

[@TheWorldEnd2]

@@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

[@ArgieHandle]

Unironically one of Weird Al's strongest tracks. Incredible level of humor and creativity

[@KamiKazeD]

“It was obsolete before I opened the box” Timeless truth

[@wronggg]

"If I ever meet you, I'll Control-Alt-Delete you" is one of the best insults ever.

[@danfinoia7930]

Wrong! Someone I knew once said "kid you should uninstall life" and we cracked up for days

[@jazzphotos]

This is still one of my favorite quotes EVER.

[@camazotzz]

You'll open my task manager?

[@explosionsandstuff7787]

I disagree, he best was "You're just about as useless as jpegs to Helen Keller."

[@dielaughing73]

Mic drop. It's the last line of the song.

[@xennial80sxberner]

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.

[@osga21]

But now it's achievable, some people rock 128GB of ram

[@_Kerberos_]

Our blades at work have 256GB of RAM.

[@mikecrapse5285]

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)

[@aaro1268]

Somebody else I know is in that field and it's just insane how much RAM you eat through.

[@mikecrapse5285]

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.

[@robertscottTV]

Saw weird al live in concert and this song was actually heavy as fuck and his performance was incredibly solid and impressive

[@CastleBomb44]

Damnit. I really need to see him live in 2020

[@classicredwine]

Robert Scott TV how was his show overall? Was he entertaining?

[@crinna]

He's one of the best live performers I've ever seen. Absolute top notch showmanship.

[@Coolreject]

Same, saw him over a decade ago and it was surprising how hard this song went live, with the strobe and his band playing it heavy metal style

[@kylemyers9469]

You're so lucky to have seen that

[@thebigh4752]

This song has aged better than most software.

[@raven4k998]

your using a dorrito get a pentium kid🤣🤣🤣

[@lamarepository248]

that guy in the background shouting "yeah" is the hero we need

[@kateruterbories2692]

That guy in the background is Drew Carey!!

[@JamMastaJew]

@@kateruterbories2692 it definitely is not

[@hernansalto-dumbattemptracing]

I Think Is Bermuda,the drummer

[@10DollarProductions]

Dudes fed up with the 9-5 hustle

[@LinkRocks]

@@hernansalto-dumbattemptracing Yep it's Bermuda shorts.

[@mikesuch9021]

Weird Al has the most underrated musicians I've ever heard. I've been listening to him since I was 17 years old I'm 62 now.

[@eyalinbar4845]

Wow thats from the start. I am impressed

[@lancecozad5704]

Right behind you. 52 and loved his genius from the Dr Demento first moments.

[@eadecamp]

I remember him from his Dr. Demento days. I lived in New York in the late 70s and used to listen to KMET when I visited family in Riverside.

[@williamdavis4809]

My bologna

[@KipArmadillo]

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.

[@dingfeldersmurfalot4560]

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.

[@cellostrings2522]

Al is a genius.

[@rayjaymor8754]

I legitimately had to go back to find them. Damn 😅

[@johnchandler1687]

I liked the " Platters like" backup group, too. Old school mixed with new.

[@B_Rowen]

I like when they dance with the floppy disks

[@pittsburghpirateshat8950]

weird al has managed to remain culturally relevant longer then almost everyone he has parodied

[@raymondm.3748]

Pittsburgh Pirates Hat True

[@acepedro12]

To the point I don't even know who he's supposed to be parodying in this one.

[@amrak63]

@@acepedro12 I am no expert on rap, but I think he was parodying Puff Daddy or Pee Diddy or Poop Doody or whatever he's calling himself this month.

[@josephatherley]

No, this was parodying B. O. B

[@mikethompson7570]

True fact

[@pauldaly2947]

When Weird Al's band nails the sound so hard you've forgotten if it's the actual track or not!

[@arlieliverman4771]

On every single song parody!!👍

[@indicat]

100 gigs of ram? Filthy casual!! Now excuse me, I need to go wax my modem..

[@AWISECROW]

sd-ram :|

[@paulmoir4452]

EDO RAM; it is the worst, SDRAM reads in bursts.

[@nekomasteryoutube3232]

100 Gigs of ram, try 100 Petabytes!

[@dohmies77]

But can it run a Minecraft server?

[@AWISECROW]

+Paul Moir oh god, how far we've come D:

[@Foxtrot-Nation]

I’m about to start a new career soon in IT, so this song definitely resonates with me

[@screwyoumoon]

I just started, about a month ago in some little computer shop that fixes them too. I wish it was this stylish in there.

[@mat2093]

@@screwyoumoon just show up dressed as al in this video blasting this.

[@icecreamjunkie6790]

Same

[@alvaro1728]

"What kind of chip you got in there, a Dorito?" Intel should adopt this slogan.

[@GoodGamer3000]

AMD should, seeing how slow Intel's CPUs look in comparison.

[@MostafaElSakari]

GoodGamer3000 performance is comparable, Intel is more expensive

[@GoodGamer3000]

@@MostafaElSakari, Intel's 18 core 10980XE is comparable to AMD's 64 core 3990X?

[@isaakwelch3451]

@@MostafaElSakari right now amd is kicking intel's ass in both the performance/dollar and raw performance game

[@headbangerdnb]

Well, that comment sure did backfire on you quick.

[@gladyszryan]

I imagined a Dorito being shoved into the CPU slot on the C64 and can't stop laughing.

[@noblexenon2147]

Do you is have homestuck?

[@coldfusionstormgaming1808]

WHY DOSN'T IT FIT? IT'S A CHIP!

[@Frankincensedjb123]

He's not just a funny guy. He's got the chops of a true performer, the moves, and the lyrical licks.

[@yamabushi170]

Yeah, anyone can do a parody but this couples intellect, a sharp wit, a keen eye for the absurd with genuine talent for performance.

[@Rutabega_NG]

@@yamabushi170 there's a reason his career has outlasted many of those he's parodied.

[@bobdole4916]

@@Rutabega_NG 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.

[@kerryhumphries4373]

@@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!!!

[@DayLateGamerWill]

"Where'd you get your CPU? In a box of Cracker Jacks?" Is still something I use to critique people's PCs to this day

[@HordeNetworksChannel]

"But it was obsolete before I opened the box" weird al had it right fromt he begining

[@josephkreifelsii6596]

PC has been this way and always will be. Something to do with Moore's law

[@martinmortyry7444]

@@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]

@@josephkreifelsii6596, Moore's Law is dead, and Intel killed it.

[@justderp5713]

Nvidia be like

[@gostigoo6706]

@@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

[@MisterRON]

It's stunning how relevant this song still is. Weird Al was so ahead of his time with this one.

[@salazam]

At the time when the internet was just for nerds, he had balls to cater to a niche audience!

[@dankenstein528]

"If I ever meet you I'll Control alt delete you." has to be one of the greatest lines ever.

[@rudevoices9204]

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

[@TheRealJackee4]

I love that idea

[@GeneralKenobi547]

So Word Crimes has been the original song since the beggining

[@turntablethomas2584]

“Trapped At The Drive Thru” comes to mind

[@sweesbees]

funny how “you’re the biggest joke on the internet” is a much more biting insult in 2020

[@dielaughing73]

Way more competition these days

[@ingufstudios5913]

it was probably really bad in 1999 because of the people shitting in a jar and posting it on random fourms. though it's even worse now

[@roberthenderson3760]

@@ingufstudios5913 yeah two girls and a cup.... I just can't... Unsee....It! Lol by far WORST Thing ever Posted. UGHHHH. Lol

[@bowmanencore]

@@roberthenderson3760 I never watched it or got tricked into it (luckily). I knew it would be of the haunting variety. lol

[@Jadefox32]

@@roberthenderson3760 So glad I never saw it fortunately my friends TOLD me what it was (even hearing it described still gives me shudders)

[@metalmat3651]

"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.

[@tomaszskowronski1406]

"You're as useles as JPEG's to Hellen Keller" That is the best insult in history.

[@Tom2404]

I don't understand this.

[@cjxj2202]

Tom 2404 She was deaf, and blind.

[@Tom2404]

@@cjxj2202 oh...

[@b-chroniumproductions3177]

I prefer "if I ever meet you, I'll control-alt-delete you"

[@024t8]

This bit is getting me everytime.

[@mazz2622]

"In a 32-bit world, you're a 2-bit user You've got your own newsgroup, alt.total-loser" - possibly one of the greatest nerd-burns in history.

[@RealBlueony]

"If I ever meet you, I'll Control-Alt-Delete you" 20 years later and this is still as savage an insult as the day it was first uttered

[@daviddavidsonn3578]

>not using Ctrl+Shit+Esc what are you, a moron?

[@jasoneverett]

that dude in the cubicle jumping up and screaming "YEAH" just kills me

[@gunfuego]

As a computer nerd that grew up listening to Weird Al over AOL dialup, this song is priceless nostalgia :)

[@cep2378]

I still have a buttload of those 3.5" AOL disk. LOL.

[@JesusChrist-xb7jq]

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.

[@kateruterbories2692]

@@JesusChrist-xb7jq One of the best concerts you can see!! He goes all out!

[@salazam]

No self-respecting computer nerd ever used AOL. Poser! Mindspring gang gang!

[@calanon534]

Ditto.

[@charleszayaz]

at the 40 sec mark when the office worker started screaming "YEAH....", I was sold. lol Another Super Classic! Thank you Al

[@kerryhumphries4373]

That guy screaming "yeah yeah yeah" is AL's drummer, Bermuda Schwartz. He screams this during live performances as well. He offers other vocals also!

[@jm-sh6qr]

i cant help but laugh at the image of a mosh pit at a pc trade show.

[@marzuqahmed218]

Thanks for the laugh. Want to see that now.

[@jackhemsworth7515]

Would like, but 69

[@dreamhollow]

"A hundred gigabytes of RAM." It's been freaking years and 100 gigs of RAM is still an insane amount of computer memory.

[@jarynn8156]

For home computers, but servers have been there for many years now.

[@therealax6]

That's because 100 gigs were a completely insane amount in 1999. 25 times more than 32-bit computers could even address, for starters. And *one* gigabyte of RAM would have been considered as insane back then as 100 is now.

[@ddplzz]

@@therealax6 Funny thing though is we are almost at the point where the song is relevant. 32/64gigs of ram isn't unheard of in high end home builds. and 40 inch "flatscreen" monitors are pretty cheap these days.

[@NameCallingIsWeak]

Rocking 512GB on a vintage 2015 server at work, but on a 32GB personal laptop in 2019.

[@ddplzz]

@@Stackali I use 2x 36 inch 4k monitors at work. I am very aware of the difference between TVs and monitors lol

[@dgemini2]

Still blown away by how genius this is.

[@zacharystrobel7646]

Can we appreciate the fact that this song goes as hard as it does.

[@typacsk]

(Craig Ferguson voice) I KNOOOW! I only heard the original recently, and my first reaction was "God, this is bland."

[@animist_avery]

Yes, very hard indeed. I appreciate that as well.

[@dark2023-1lovesoni]

Yeah, I STILL prefer this parody to the original, since 2001. Probably because I like the guitar inclusion

[@radumarginean969]

This aged like fine wine, and Weird Al is still killing it :)

[@chairwood]

Wine Is Not an Emulator

[@yaroslavkurgansky6205]

"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

[@sakilook]

Considering the recent events, we can now treat this as the original song 🙃

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

What happened? Im not culturally versed

[@dollarcostbackpacker1226]

This was originally a puff daddy song... All about the Benjamin's ( Benjamin's butt whole)​@@JoshuaJacobs83

[@scratch3406]

@@JoshuaJacobs83p diddy stole this from weird al

[@kylechildress536]

Always could.

[@TrueVintageRnBFan]

😂😂😂

[@datachu]

This song still holds up today, total banger

[@oscargimblett1990]

I just realised Bill Gates mug says "Think Similiar". That's brilliant.

[@ajack1312]

Oh yeah that's awesome. Never noticed that and I've owned a dvd with this vid on it since 2003.

[@Awelbeckk]

Well spotted !!

[@txm100]

YES :D

[@OvSpP]

I mean I get it… but hypothetically if I didn’t, how would you explain the joke to me?

[@oscargimblett1990]

@@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

[@MrZhiBMe]

Weird Al needs to be respected as a legit rapper.

[@The_Real_Indiana_Joe]

Can do it all, and can do it well!

[@mmjahink]

He was on Epic Rap Battles of History in the role of Isaac Newton.

[@ccricers]

Not rap, but he is already on the Rock & Roll hall of fame

[@salazam]

The word is "legitimate". You sound ignorant.

[@alwkw3783]

@@salazam Naw, "legit" is legit. If he was writing a research paper you would be right. This is a comedy parody on KZbin. You sound uptight.

[@obstacle1667]

I love how this actually has more views than the original song it's parodying, both the original and the rock remix.

[@IsmailofeRegime]

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.

[@DanielWidrew]

@@IsmailofeRegime didn't even know that was a parody

[@rugerREL07]

Memes > the air you breath

[@NiteOwl471]

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! 🤯

[@nateholt429]

"What kinda chip you got in there? a Dorito?" Fucking got me.

[@godfist314]

Doritos Inside xD

[@CreepyBlackDude]

@@godfist314 Y'all on that old shit, I've got that Flamin' Hot Cheeto chipset. I even got the upgraded Limon edition.

[@LotteYanson]

It was that and “If I ever meet you I’ll control alt delete you”

[@K147-t2j]

The guy that plays Bill Gates in this is a King County Metro bus driver. Nice guy. Loves when people notice him.

[@Sashazur]

Aw, I thought it was legit Bill Gates doing a cameo. 😔

[@IdgaradLyracant]

"As useful as JPEGS to Hellen Keller" is one of my favorite lines in this.

[@Layarion]

i don't get it though. i'm a computer geek but only my dad seems to get most of the references here.

[@thewatcher6510]

+Layarion Helen Keller was deaf, mute, and blind. Also, Old Yeller was a good old dog that went rabid and had to be shot. It's not all about pentiums.

[@chris1pdx]

Only second to "If I ever meet you, I'll Control Alt Delete you".

[@cernoso]

It's one of the best insults ever.

[@hippogalacticcheddar2744]

I was reading to comments while listening, and right when I started reading that comment, he said that line.

[@Trippy72Spore]

"My new computer's got the clocks to rock, but it was obsolete before I opened the box" - never a truer word, even today...

[@claude-emiliecloutier8186]

I prefer this version to the original and frankly, Al looks pretty sexy on this. Today is October 23, 2019, Al is 60, happy birthday!

[@grizkreeper4646]

what's the original?

[@nathanielphillips5727]

20 years later, still gold, Pentium gold.

[@dome6562]

"If I ever meet you, I'l ctrl-alt-del you" Installing a working Linux box used to require over 550 man hours, learning a Nordic language, sacrificing a goat, wading through hundreds of pages of (purposely) inscrutable help files, and in some cases programming a new driver in UNIVAC SLEUTH II assembly code using nothing but punch cards while walking miles through the snow barefoot on the wrong side of the tracks and uphill both ways. Today, Linux distros are so idiot-proof that you can put their install CDs into the floppy drive upside-down and the fucker will still work.

[@samramdebest]

was this just edited while I was reading it, it just became longer on its own!

[@SuperPerry1000]

You make it sound like that's a bad thing.

[@nuclearglory]

This... is brilliant.

[@computerwoespastpresentand4863]

GENIUS!! How many noobs reading this now, can say they saved files on their CASSETTE drive?? That was when I had my Atari 400. When I had my Commodore 64, to delete a file was: OPEN 15,8,15,"S:FILENAME":CLOSE 15 and that was the abbreviated version!

[@DemonWolf1984]

OMG!!! This is too funny! I'm going to send this to a friend.

[@christineml1476]

This song got me through tech school, it'll always be my favorite.

[@joseph-ow1hf]

I think most people would never realize the tremendous amount of effort it took to make all of this work. Might be funny but it's also a bangin' song.

[@fiveliter1]

Love the guy in the cubicle screaming “yeah, yeah, yeah!!!”

[@albinrose418]

Pretty sure that's his drummer!

[@kerryhumphries4373]

@@albinrose418 Definitely is his drummer of 40 years. Bermuda Schwartz

[@OtoGodfrey]

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.

[@0verload]

Except you don't want a T1 line, only 1.5 Mbps. Was definitely super fast back in the 90's but we've advanced far beyond that now.

[@deathgorilla782]

@@0verload wut

[@wholelottalight]

Now just don't feed trolls and don't read spam and you are good to go. Congratulations!

[@briandougherty9110]

my new laptop has 32gb of ram and 16gb of vram but it's still a far cry from weird al's computer in 1999.

[@snikrepak]

@@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.

[@InnocentPizza-tx3kf]

The background dude screamin yeah is awesome

[@kerryhumphries4373]

That guy screamin "yeah yeah yeah" is Bermuda Schwartz his drummer of 40 years!!

[@EnvisionerWill]

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....

[@EnvisionerWill]

And most apemen can't detect sarcasm, apparently :)

[@TheSuperappelflap]

he didnt deserve for rekt

[@Shmozone]

"Dude did you 3d print the save icon?"

[@billlupin8345]

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.

[@jaylenbrownfan2112]

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"

[@fiercekrypton]

The craziest thing about this is that literally all of it holds up 20 years later.

[@raven4k998]

nope those old Pentiums sucked balls as they came in three grades shit good and great performers due to their 50 60 and 66mhz front side buses

[@AdamG1983]

When he said my Windows boots up in a day and a half, I felt personally attacked.

[@luxeraph]

The heck? Using HDD? Even my old ass pc boots in seconds

[@AusTheBassBoss]

The man at 2:05 with the glasses is my Dad! His name is Darren Carter.

[@legoman8960]

lol

[@tonycook1308]

You must be Austin then?

[@AusTheBassBoss]

@@tonycook1308 Yessir! How did you know?

[@JohnFinger1996]

Opsec L

[@guymankiker5661]

​@AusTheBassBoss that's awesome dude

[@Tom2404]

I own "some" Pentiums: Pentium 60MHz Pentium 60MHz (with FDIV Bug) Pentium 90MHz Pentium 120MHz Pentium OverDrive 133MHz Pentium 166MHz Pentium MMX 200MHz Pentium MMX 233MHz Pentium Pro 200MHz Pentium II 300MHz Pentium II 350MHz Pentium II Mobile 366MHz Pentium II 400MHz Pentium III 450MHz Pentium III 500MHz Pentium III 933MHz Pentium III 1GHz Pentium III 1,2GHz Pentium III 1,4GHz Pentium 4 1,6GHz Pentium 4 1,7GHz Pentium 4 Mobile 1,8GHz Pentium 4 2,66GHz Pentium 4 3GHz Pentium M 1,6GHz Pentium 4 HT 3,4GHz Pentiun D 915 2,8GHz Pentium Dual Core E5500 2,8GHz Pentiun G630 2,7GHz Pentium G 645 2,9GHz Pentium G850 2,9GHz It's all about the Pentiums baby

[@mikakorhonen5715]

No Pentium Pro? It was like home supercomputer when they came.

[@Tom2404]

@@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).

[@jaredticer6255]

I wan't one :D

[@BlayneMahoney]

I have a single, de-lidded Pentium G3420 with a cracked chip.

[@redclark1257]

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

[@meganmrozinski5433]

I'm oddly attracted to Weird Al's look in this video I've been obsessed with him as of late

[@LornaEGL]

Me too

[@sedaly9]

yeah me too. And I first got turned on to him in the early 80's, like 81 on Dr. Demento. Recently I realized how talented he really is!

[@zimriel]

head over to the 'Germs' parody . . .

[@joymarcushahn]

Watching Al is how I’m getting my happy these days. He’s in amazing shape in this one too.

[@tenaturner3942]

Let's just admit it, he's awesome sexy in this video.

[@diggitydoo5836]

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.

[@cornsail]

lmao same, I find myself randomly saying that to my wife all the time

[@diggitydoo5836]

@@cornsail Wow, it’s been a year since I posted that comment, but the last time I told someone I’m the king of the spreadsheets was like two days ago

[@acuralo]

This is lowkey one of Al's best songs...ever! Period....the video, the lyrics, the humor!!!

[@deceiver444]

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant

[@Atlink]

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.

[@mblah2981]

shit i call and complain if mine drops below 75Mbps

[@Am-Not-Jarvis]

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.

[@chavesa5]

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.

[@ZiddersRooFurry]

Al is so fucking brilliant it's amazing. All these years later and people can still relate to this song.

[@MrJest2]

+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. :-)

[@TheDarkHour684]

Weird Al's songs last longer than Microsoft legacy support.

[@anonygent]

Bananas last longer than Microsoft legacy support. 😏

[@damienlobb85]

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.

[@TheDarkHour684]

@@damienlobb85 The real question is, why would you want to?

[@damienlobb85]

@@TheDarkHour684 Our family computer in still going strong with a Core Quad 6600 and SSD upgrade... 💁‍♂️

[@TheDarkHour684]

@@damienlobb85 Man, that chip's a Dorito! ;)

[@OfficialMrShade]

Weird Al doesn't get enough credit. He nails every songs!

[@finishercar]

Weird Al, universally regarded as one of the nicest guys in the industry, but also drops the sickest burns on many of his tracks! 🔥

[@TheJeroenbrouwer]

I remember when i thought "Flat screen monitor 40 inch wide? no way..."... Now i have 3 of those interconnected. I am a geek. And goddamn proud of it.

[@hayberdasher8625]

I absolutely love the fact that Weird Al was awesome when I was a kid in the 80s and is still awesome now

[@albinrose418]

Seconded.

[@deathsaidhello]

Weird Al is eternally awesome.

[@cellostrings2522]

The lyrics are insane. Still totally relevant in 2024! You go Al !!!

[@afronight]

This is one of those songs where the parody is actually better than the source material

[@cellostrings2522]

All of Weird Al’s parodies are better than the original.

[@Moridin69]

"You're about as useless as JPEGs to Helen Keller" is a class A burn. Totally stealing that.

[@mbarker_lng]

Still incredibly relevant today. Amazing.

[@Muck006]

Kids wont know what a Pentium is ...

[@SteelmanArgument]

+Muck006 Well, it's still manufactured on the low end for Skylake.

[@ronald4life1]

Yea not even close. It's all about the Radeons and Zen these days ;D

[@MrDavoz28]

*Multithreading and Tis. FTFY :)

[@dededepression2628]

I love how all of the insults here just grow even more potent with time

[@KirbyCoder]

"What kind of chip are you using, a dorito?" might be the funniest line this man has ever produced

[@brandoncurnutte8235]

He had no business going this hard but I'm glad he did