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  • Dorkyd68@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or like on jurassic park. Where the little girl saves the day by playing a video game on the security system

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    • marzhall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh that was just FSN, an actual filesystem browser for IRIX back in the day. You can install the port FSN if you want to browse your files as if they’re 3D objects on Linux today

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      TBF, have you played System Shock? That’s what hacking in the future actually looks like…

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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  • atlien51@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • atlien51@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Um no. It lost its appeal way before that

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    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Its still awesome if you dig and avoid all corporate shit. Neal.fun for example. Go donate!!

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      • atlien51@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Nah it’s not exciting anymore sry

        Aside from the odd interesting yootoob video

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  • redditor_chatter44@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Chicken jockey”

    -Jack black

    Whole theater starts going crqzy over two words

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    • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A lot of people cheered when the Technoblade pig tribute came up.

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  • redwattlebird@lemmings.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    HACK THE PLANET!

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Draws floppy disks from pants

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  • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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).

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  • squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ah, well, better skip “Strange Days”, “12 Monkeys” and “Gattaca” then…

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    • crawancon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      lest we neglect ol Jobe in Lawnmower Man.

      (the one not affiliated with Steven King)

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      • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨34⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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.

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    • rozodru@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.”

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      • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      ACCESS DENIED

      ACCESS DENIED

      ACCESS GRANTED

      I’m in

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    • crawancon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      sneakers was in 90s… they had it mostly right vs … the fractal animations in Hackers. that one took some 'splainin.

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      • Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

        But then you have scenes like this

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      • crawancon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        let’s not forget the vb gui back trace gold mine of multiple hands on the keyboard to uhh hack faster. (CSI)

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    • Sergio@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You’re saying that like the trope isn’t alive and well to this day 😅

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      • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Maybe I needed to add a \s to that. :D

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      A good exception to this rule is “Sneakers”. Love that movie, and now I’m due for a rewatch.

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

    Nmap Featured in The Matrix Reloaded

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    • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Good call naming War Games! That was completely off my radar.

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  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its just bizarre to think about how awful trying to accurately convey an order verbally over shitty audio quality must have been

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    • zourn@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • TheLowestStone@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    i remember the first time i ever ordered pizza online, total game changer for phone haters

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  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    be alive

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    • chellomere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Today on Two Minute Papers…

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I came here to comment this. Glad to see it’s already here.

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  • My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Looking forward to the future where I just think about pizza and it materializes in my mouth.

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    • LadyButterfly@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And it is really healthy cos of SCIENCE

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  • underscores@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • 1984@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Arcade?

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    • UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Arcade selon chatGPT… Personnellement j’ai jamais vu.

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    • Kimjongtooill@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lawnmower Man?

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      • underscores@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • FiniteLooper@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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    • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I remember that scene lol. I was like, no way! How?!

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