Kristin Ritchie (born 1986), is a Nerdcore rapper, better known by the stage name MC Router. The self-proclaimed "First Lady of Nerdcore" founded the group "1337 g33k b34t" with friend Tanner Brown (aka "T-Byte") in 2004. Although the two are still friends and occasionally collaborate musically, the group disbanded in late 2006 to leave each of them to perform as solo acts. Late 2006 also marked the birth of "Tri-forc3", a joint effort between MC Router, Beefy, and Shael Riley. After Wired Magazine published an article on the Nerdcore scene. in late 2006, she wrote a letter to the magazine editors and composing a song entitled "UNwired", explaining why she felt that the Nerdcore scene was misrepresented in the article. As year 2007 began, Router released another new track entitled Trekkie Pride, which is known as "The First Nerdcore Song of 2007". The song appeared on a Drown Radio podcast less than a week later <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/MC+Router">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.