Earliest mention of the internet in a song or title

Denim, "Internet Curtains" (1996)

Computer World seems to predict the internet more astutely than Computer Love, no?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hChTqeiKsus

'Talking Univac Blues', promotional record for UNIVAC from 1974. I'm not technical enough to say if any of the lyrics are specifically realted to the internet, but it's odd hearing references to broadband data in a song from the mid 70s

Re: the discussion about "Computer Love" - those lyrics may have been partially inspired by the then recently-developing technology of Bulletin Board Systems. First known BBS was in 1978, though didn't start properly taking off until 1980/1981.

That Univac song's amazing. Likewise I've no idea whether it 'counts' as an internet song, but it makes a data transfer sound bloody impressive.

Presumably the original record sounded better than this upload? (Or were they imitating "faulty '30s gramophone" quality?)

I know that Snake People are not likely to remember this, but "Computer Dating" meant a rather different thing in the late 60s and 70s than it does in the post-internet age.

There was this idea that one would fill in a series of questions (the pre-cursor to OKC questions and the like) in one of those data entry forms, the results would all be fed into a computer, and some algorithm would match potential dates based on the affinity of their answers.

It's described here:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/02/old-weird-tech-computer-dating-of-the-1960s/71217/

And also it's the basis for a hilarious scene in Harold and Maude (1971) whereby Harold's mother fills in his punchcard for him.

So given that this is the meaning that "Computer Dating" had for most of the 70s, I'm pretty sure that something like this is what Ralf was describing in Computer Love - rather than what we consider "Internet Dating" now.

So no, I don't think we can call Computer Love the earliest example of the Internet in song lyrics. Computer World, however, especially the full German lyrics, has a much better claim, conceptually, to be about ~the Internet~ since it is about computerised data networks. So not that specific song, but definitely Kraftwerk.

Maybe more specific, what's the first mention of email?

Snake People

Uh, what?

I guess Prince must be one of the first, back in 1995:

"Welcome, you've got mail"
It was Sunday night, instead of doing what I usually do, I

I scan my computer looking for a site
Somebody to talk to, funny and bright
I scan my computer looking for a site
Make believe it's a better world, a better life

2 Unlimited have their Info Superhighway from 1994 although it doesn't specifically mention the word internet:

Technology, virtual society
Info superhighway interaction
Into the future, into the future, technology

See the world progressing all around us, it's a virtual society
Info superhighway interaction, computer pal or enemy
So communicate with me won't you interact with me?

Technicians, technique, technology
It's the most important thing in the industry
It's going further nowadays, 'cause they wanna get paid
Every day new discovery and plans to be made

Now get connected like an electric wire
Look out for the shock, look out for the fire
Just imagine how it would be
Without the thing they call technology

I find those lyrics difficult to reduce to a single lucid and coherent thought

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7OuzAxM2uA&index=5&list=PLWfGw2maX1M7bFF9YNS0w59Q8c672-774

(1986, btw)

Snake People

Uh, what?

― Demeraray & Essequebo (Tom D.),

http://www.buzzfeed.com/sapna/replace-millennial-with-snake-people

1995: momus - virtual valerie "Went surfing down the Internet"

also that year: bowie - algeria touchshriek "A reject from the world wide Internet"

It doesn't literally mention the Internet, but there's Level 42, Micro Kid.