-> "The Hack of the Internet Archive"
Original Song Title:
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
Parody Song Title:
"The Hack of the Internet Archive"
Parody Written by:
Belvue McPherson
The Lyrics
The website has gone, from the motherboard on down
Of the site that they call Int’rnet Archive
The server, it’s said, has now been all but dead
When the skies of October turn gloomy
With storage in PB* ninety-nine thousand times more
Though the Internet Archive weighs empty
That archive and true was a feast to be chewed
When the gales of October came early
(*PB = Petabyte - 1024 terabytes, or a million gigabytes.)
The page was the pride of the American side
Used in Kansas, New York Wisconsin
As the big websites go, it was bigger than most
With a Brewster Kahle**; captain well seasoned
Was hacked by some worms with a grudge ‘gainst Brewster’s terms
Palestine, they all say, is the reason,
It happened last week, politics was blamed,
Now we know — user’s emails they’re stealin’,
(**Brewster Kahle is the guy who founded the Internet Archive.)
The hackers one night made a tattle-tale sound
And they gave us an early Halloween
And every man knew, as Brewster Kahle did too
T'was the hack of October come stealin'
It slashed the pages, the uploads had to wait
When the hack of October came slashin'
When afternoon came it gained worldwide fame,
“Internet Archive has gone to the wind!”
When suppertime came, Brewster Kahle came on deck sayin'
"Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya"
At 7 PM, the bad hackers caved in, he said
"Fellas, it's been good to know ya"
The Wayback Machine, it had hackers comin' in
And the good site and crew was in peril
And later that night when the site went outta sight
Came the hack of the Internet Archive!
Does any one know where the archivists go,
When their favorite site’s out for hours?
Some users all say they'd have made Carole’s day,
If they'd seen those old magazine pages of her***
Those looking for lost media on the Archive,
They may have broke down, thrown a tantrum,
And all that remains is the 404 page,
“We’re offline, and we’ll stay off forever!”
(***Old magazine articles of Carole Lombard during her career were available on the Media History Digital Library, which relied on magazine articles posted on the Internet Archive.)
And life still rolls, America sings
As they pray for the Internet Archive
Archivists cry streams, they’ve crushed all their dreams
The 404 pages are dead, man!
And farther below, Lost Media Forum
Cries ‘cause their favorite site is over,
And it’s time to let go as the good folks all know
With the hack of October remembered
To the folks ‘cross the country who knew, let’s pray,
And remember this great, now gone website,
The church bells chime 'til it rings nine trillion times
For each file on the Internet Archive,
The website has gone, from the motherboard on down
Of the site that they call Int’rnet Archive
The server, it’s said, has now been all but dead
So farewell; your 404 came too early!
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