The #songsincode Meme, Posting Song Titles & Lyrics As Programming Code

by Scott Beale on August 25, 2009 · 1 comment

#songsincode

Christian Heilmann explains the phenomenon behind the current #songsincode meme on Twitter, where people have been posting the title or lyrics of songs in the form of programing code.

According to Christian, Adam Hepton of FrogTrade kicked things off with this ReTweet.

UPDATE: Adam Smith has more on how the #songsincode meme came about, including some Twitter trend analysis.


filed under Meme, Music

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Andy August 26, 2009 at 2:34 am

Coverage on Laughing Squid? We’ve made it!

Anyway, I put together a doc about how songsincode came about as a result of brain fail last Thursday morning.

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