I recently re-watched The Net. There are some pretty silly things in there.
One of my favourites was Sandra on the beach, in mid day tropical sunshine, using one of those old 1994 laptop screens. Riiiiiiight.
Or like on jurassic park. Where the little girl saves the day by playing a video game on the security system
Oh that was just FSN, an actual filesystem browser for IRIX back in the day. You can install the port FSV if you want to browse your files as if they’re 3D objects on Linux today
TBF, have you played System Shock? That’s what hacking in the future actually looks like…
God that was awesome. The internet felt like something different. Now it’s just…there I guess. It has almost none of the excitement anymore.
It got a lot less magical when the fascists and their corpo buddies stole a generation of young men and everyone’s parents and started trying to murder truth, yeah.
Um no. It lost its appeal way before that
Edit: actually can u be more specific lol cause for me the internet started sucking bad after 2016
The push im referring to started going hard in ~2014. Bannon and zuckerberg are the big names, but someone at google was also involved.
It was getting shitty and corpo before that, but not as much as it ended up beong. The curve changed.
Its still awesome if you dig and avoid all corporate shit. Neal.fun for example. Go donate!!
Nah it’s not exciting anymore sry
Aside from the odd interesting yootoob video
HACK THE PLANET!
Draws floppy disks from pants
It was pretty impressive, I remembered wondering if that was something Americans got to do that we didn’t in Australia. Seems like other than a few localised experiments in some states it was fiction even for the yanks at the time. I must say I actually still think it’s pretty dope doing that. I liked the little remote controlled fireplace screensaver too. Seemed very cosy.
I love that movie! Im so glad I got to experience at least some of this time frame. Feela bad for the people who didn’t
If nothing else, at least the new Iran war will make all us Millennials feel a bit young again. Time to relisten to American Idiot, at the very least.
Or maybe I’ll just feel even older, as I can’t believe we’re still doing this shit.
I’ve never stopped listening to “Cali punk” so I’m good to go (I don’t care if green day is really from California or not, that’s what I call the happy poppy punk that’s not crusty enough to be called punk without a qualifier: NOFX, Offspring, Blink 182, Millencollin, etc etc).
I mean, call it whatever, it really doesn’t matter that much, but why not pop punk? Seems to be the more common label, and easily extended to non-US bands like Sum41, Gob, etc.
It’s definitely a home made and personal distinction but basically for me pop-punk is reserved for the ones I don’t like haha. It has a negative side so I needed another term for the (admittedly) pop punk bands that I do like. Again you’re probably right, that’s just the way I do it internally. And I just use it to describe the sound, Millencollin for example is Swedish. Also there’s bands like bad religion that still kinda have that sound but I wouldn’t dare classify them under “pop”, I’m sure NOFX would take an issue with it too, etc.
I fucking loved Millencolin back in the day. Hadn’t listened to them in years until something inspired me earlier this year to look up No Cigar. So great! I appreciate the call out and also agree about the “pop” label. Lol, NOFX would definitely not be pleased with that.
“Chicken jockey”
-Jack black
Whole theater starts going crazy over two words
Hacking scenes in old movies are ridiculous to look back on. Always some crazy GUI-heavy pseudo-video game with people clattering away madly on keyboards and tense music playing. So unlike hacking scenes of today, which are obviously much more realistic to appeal to a refined modern audience. We’ve truly come a long way.
I guarantee you the modern “hacking” scenes are just as over the top, people just don’t know any better, Mr. Robot TV show is the closest to realistic hacking and it’s not exciting and there’s no clean GUI with animations, just a terminal and a lot of typing and lots of manipulating people into making mistakes
To be fair, any realistic hacking scene would be extremely boring to watch.
It would be like watching someone solve a jigsaw puzzle. Except there is no light so you just hear them click a piece in place occasionally.
Obviously still not realistic, but I feel like the super-imposed text thing some TV shows/movies have done more recently works, so long as you create a sense of tension/time crunch.
Toss in some red text and error messages once and a while in front of a dude sweating with dramatic music in the background, and it gets the point across.
my favourite was the 3D “file system” in Jurassic Park. At the time I was just using DOS and had no clue about Unix and was like “oh that’s bullshit” but it wasn’t. the thing actually exists and I have it on one of my machines right now that I like to use every now and again and in my head I always think “it’s a unix system, I know this.”
I remember when I was in middle school, I saw my older brother working on a Unix system and it looked like he was some elite hacker. Now, it’s the same look I get from my kid any time he sees me doing anything in the terminal.
ACCESS DENIEDACCESS DENIEDACCESS GRANTEDI’m in
You’re saying that like the trope isn’t alive and well to this day 😅
Maybe I needed to add a \s to that. :D
Oh damn I should have read that properly 😂
TIL the term “wardialing” (referring to the technique of automatically dialing numbers) was named after the 80s film WarGames, which showed it at work.
A good exception to this rule is “Sneakers”. Love that movie, and now I’m due for a rewatch.
sneakers was in 90s… they had it mostly right vs … the fractal animations in Hackers. that one took some 'splainin.
Honestly, Hackers gets a lot of shit for being ridiculous, but it only deserves it sometimes.
A lot of the actual hacking that is done in that movie is stuff like social engineering and phreaking payphones. It’s exaggerated in the movie to make it watchable, but it’s largely based in reality.
I remember that scene lol. I was like, no way! How?!
I absolutely hated the way computers were represented during this era. No one knew anything about them, so filmmakers would come up with the stupidest crap depicting hacking. A new era began when the first sequel to The Matrix depicted actual computer software accurately.
Have you seen War Games though? This was so long ago that I don’t think many people could say anything about the hacking part back then
Good call naming War Games! That was completely off my radar.
I was working my first IT job when The Net came out, and I thought the tech in it was pretty good. Later I discovered that every IP address shown has at least one octet higher than 255. Probably just an “anonymizing” thing, but I didn’t notice it at the time.
Ah, well, better skip “Strange Days”, “12 Monkeys” and “Gattaca” then…
Can you guess the movie ?
I’ve asked this before online to no avail: Movie set in late 80s maybe early 90s.
Thriller, tech/hacker focused
Possibly extremely bad, Btier or worse
There’s only this line I knew where the bad “entity” gets into a kid’s game and the kid says something to the effect of “there’s a guy in our game” (I watched it in French in like 2006 possibly)
Any ideas? I don’t think it was a French movie, I think it was dubbed from an originally English movie.
Lawnmower Man?
I quickly looked at the trailer then skimmed through 1 & 2 (free on YouTube) and it seems very close although I didn’t see the scene in thinking of.
I may be remembering it wrong but it was a kid and their friend playing a game and “the guy” shows up in it.
Very close! As in, this might be it but I skimmed past the scene I’m thinking of.
Also… what a nonsensical movie but hugely creative, makes me miss the 90s.
Spy Kids 3D has “the guy” in it, and you find out later on it’s Elijah Wood
Looking forward to the future where I just think about pizza and it materializes in my mouth.
And it is really healthy cos of SCIENCE
