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.
Oh to go back...
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KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ACCESS DENIEDACCESS DENIEDACCESS GRANTEDI’m in
crawancon@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
sneakers was in 90s… they had it mostly right vs … the fractal animations in Hackers. that one took some 'splainin.
Godort@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
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, phreaking payphones, and reading technical documentation. It’s exaggerated in the movie to make it watchable, but it’s largely based in reality.
crawancon@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
let’s not forget the vb gui back trace gold mine of multiple hands on the keyboard to uhh hack faster. (CSI)
Sergio@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
TIL the term “wardialing” (referring to the technique of automatically dialing numbers) was named after the 80s film WarGames, which showed it at work.
rozodru@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.”
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
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.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
You’re saying that like the trope isn’t alive and well to this day 😅
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Maybe I needed to add a \s to that. :D
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
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.
Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
A good exception to this rule is “Sneakers”. Love that movie, and now I’m due for a rewatch.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
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.
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Good call naming War Games! That was completely off my radar.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
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).
Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Its just bizarre to think about how awful trying to accurately convey an order verbally over shitty audio quality must have been
zourn@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Even better, being a delivery driver trying to find McRando’s house without GPS, map quest, etc. Just a street address and a city street map from the municipal Chamber of Commerce.
Especially fun when half of your deliveries were out of the city limits and you had to ask for/write down directions, and no cell phone to call if you took a wrong turn or they gave you bad directions.
I don’t miss those days.
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
By ‘city street map’ do you mean someone that folds out a single sheet of paper or something more detailed?
We used to do pretty alright in Australia with these thick road map books you could pick up from any petrol station or newsagency shop. Imagine you had google maps in book form where each page was a section of a bigger map (basically a whole city) with a grid reference system, adjoining page references on each side and a vast index.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You forgot the part where your boss yells at you for being out too long because the house you were supposed to go to had a mile long driveway and no numbers on the road.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or like on jurassic park. Where the little girl saves the day by playing a video game on the security system
marzhall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
TBF, have you played System Shock? That’s what hacking in the future actually looks like…
redwattlebird@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
HACK THE PLANET!
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Draws floppy disks from pants
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
i remember the first time i ever ordered pizza online, total game changer for phone haters
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
be alive
chellomere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Today on Two Minute Papers…
Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I came here to comment this. Glad to see it’s already here.
atlien51@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
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.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
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.
atlien51@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Um no. It lost its appeal way before that
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Its still awesome if you dig and avoid all corporate shit. Neal.fun for example. Go donate!!
atlien51@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Nah it’s not exciting anymore sry
Aside from the odd interesting yootoob video
redditor_chatter44@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
“Chicken jockey”
-Jack black
Whole theater starts going crqzy over two words
Maalus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A lot of people cheered when the Technoblade pig tribute came up.
KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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.
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Looking forward to the future where I just think about pizza and it materializes in my mouth.
LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And it is really healthy cos of SCIENCE
Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I read on a wall in a dominos “restaurant” that they were the first to have online orders in 1999.
I definitely remember ordering pizza online years earlier, probably 1995 or 1996 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Fun fact: the server used a fax modem to actually place the order. But the user interface was via browser.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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
FiniteLooper@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I was thinking about this exact scene yesterday. When we first saw it, it was so amazing and an unnecessary luxury to order pizza from a computer. And then I just DoorDashed my dinner last night, and now it’s such a common thing
hansolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I literally think about that scene every time I order food online. I keep meaning to order pizza online and re-watch that movie just for that one scene.
underscores@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
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.
Kimjongtooill@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Lawnmower Man?
underscores@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I quickly looked at the trainer 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.
1984@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Arcade?
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Arcade selon chatGPT… Personnellement j’ai jamais vu.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
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.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I remember that scene lol. I was like, no way! How?!
squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Ah, well, better skip “Strange Days”, “12 Monkeys” and “Gattaca” then…
crawancon@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
lest we neglect ol Jobe in Lawnmower Man.
(the one not affiliated with Steven King)
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah if actually read the Lawnmower Man the two couldn’t even confused as the same story. Crazy they just took the title.
Always told me how great Stephen King is, sometimes just his titles make great moves. But for real how can they make a movie out of anything he writes? Its amazing.
Just saw Life of Chuck and it was pretty danm close to the story.