[Recycle Bin]
NES at the Shack is how I first got down
Pops got a job, moved the fam' to Sea-town
Checking BBS's for my 'warez and porn
Around this time the mafia was born
Spending mad hours getting buff in Lord
Get with the tavern ho, show off my long sword
Couple years later, hit the Hotline scene
Waiting in queue is where I've never been seen
Got hooked up with fat accounts
Get my shit fast and in large amounts
Use my Cyrix chip to cook my meals
Laugh all you want, I'll own yo' ass at Whacky Wheels
Got my emulators and a couple thousand ROMs
And all the F-Kiss from blah blah dot com
Now we got torrents and bandwidth up to our necks
Looking back's crazy, but I wonder what's next
[Chorus]
Back in the day, Shufflepuck Cafe
Banner ads, getting paid, ICQ, getting laid
Back in the day, we knew Sulu was gay
Munching numbers, running lodes, monochrome displays
Back in the day, Shufflepuck Cafe
Banner ads, getting paid, ICQ, getting laid
Back in the day, we knew Sulu was gay
Munching numbers, running lodes, monochrome displays
[Coaxke]
Back in the day, System 7.5
Had HyperCard stacks on my SyQuest drive
Once I got a modem I was never fucking bored
Always dialing up a BBS to play me some LORD
I stole my school's dial-up to get the internet
Had a copy of Ircle and no regrets
Chilling in #macfilez, leeching on bots
It took nine years to get a download spot
Hours and hours, making Marathon maps
Always on the run, cause I set it to caps
Eventually I got a brand new Power Mac
So fucking fast, I almost had a heart attack
Ran a Hotline server on my school's T1
"Win Ben Stein's Warez" was the name of that one
Quake 3 Test in the computer lab
Never went to class cause that shit was a drag
[Chorus]
Back in the day, Shufflepuck Cafe
Banner ads, getting paid, ICQ, getting laid
Back in the day, we knew Sulu was gay
Munching numbers, running lodes, monochrome displays
Back in the day, Shufflepuck Cafe
Banner ads, getting paid, ICQ, getting laid
Back in the day, we knew Sulu was gay
Munching numbers, running lodes, monochrome displays
[Subrandom]
Back in the day, cruising through the DOS prompt
A little modem action I got anything I want
Blake Stone or some Duke 3D
IPX LAN, don't fuck with me
Back in the day we had four buttons man
Gravis GamePad 'til we lost our tan
ZZT, where I made my first game
Shit was mad hot 'til Click-n-Play came
Up in the attic, it's Jumpin' Flash
All day long 'til a PlayStation crash
Pirated Thrill Kill, what a waste of time
Now I get why they trashed that crime
We got nerd history, stories for days
Spit it how I lived it 'til this shit pays
So back up off if you question the cred
OG nerds, we'll cut off your head
[PC Speaker]
Yo, back in the day, shit was the best
I pirated Duke Nukem off a BBS
A pimp with a 486 dx, deuce
Double piped to increase my juice
Halloween Harry and Commander Keen
Nowadays, it seems like a wonderful dream
Up in school, I'm on the LC 2s
Used the backdoor to drop right out of Foolproof
Then one day, there was the internet
And anything I wanted, I could easily get
Anytime I wanted A-double-P-Z
Just connect to H-O-T-L-I-N-E
Click the banner, fourth word, seventh line
Log in, and anything I wanted was mine
I started up a server called "Industrial Strength,"
And got sued by the R-I-double-A
But I was born, into a new world of computers
And we became a generation of looters
But I said it before, and I'll say it again
It's like being high just remembering
[Chorus]
Back in the day, Shufflepuck Cafe
Banner ads, getting paid, ICQ, getting laid
Back in the day, we knew Sulu was gay
Munching numbers, running lodes, monochrome displays
Back in the day, Shufflepuck Cafe
Banner ads, getting paid, ICQ, getting laid
Back in the day, we knew Sulu was gay
Munching numbers, running lodes, monochrome displays
Back in the day, (back in the day) Shufflepuck Cafe
Banner ads, getting paid, ICQ, getting laid
Back in the day, we knew Sulu was gay
Munching numbers, running lodes, monochrome displays
Back in the day, (back in the day) Shufflepuck Cafe
Banner ads, getting paid, ICQ, getting laid
Back in the day, (back in the day) we knew Sulu was gay
Munching numbers, running lodes, monochrome displays
Back in the day, (back in the day) Shufflepuck Cafe
Banner ads, getting paid, ICQ, getting laid
Back in the day, (back in the day) we knew Sulu was gay
Munching numbers, running lodes, monochrome displays
