Ever Onward IBM
Why Hacker News recommends it
It is linked as an audio and visual example of IBM's corporate rally songs in threads about IBM culture.
What it is
A short Flash animation made in 2001 by an IBM employee, set to the company's old 'Ever Onward' rally song, with imagery from IBM history.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2014 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Cites spudlyo · 2014-08 · on “Tripping through IBM’s 1937 corporate songbook”
A snippet of that song is on YouTube from that documentary. [LINK] You can also hear 'Ever Onward' from the songbook here, which I am oddly drawn to. [this video]
Cites archagon · 2018-03 · on “Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM”
I was surprised when I visited the Computer History Museum recently and discovered that IBM actually had its own rally song: [this video]
Cites tecleandor · 2024-04 · on “Recreating the Flying Toasters screen saver for the Vision Pro”
Something kicked in my memory when I started that video and for a second I couldn't temember properly if I was hearing the Flying Toasters song or Ever Onward IBM [0]. I remember having a DOS program with a PC Speaker karaoke version of that song, maybe on a disk that also included Alley Cat by IBM too. 0: [this video]