Oh to go back...
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
Its still awesome if you dig and avoid all corporate shit. Neal.fun for example. Go donate!!
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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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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.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]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
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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
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Or like on jurassic park. Where the little girl saves the day by playing a video game on the security system
wrote on last edited by [email protected]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
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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
wrote on last edited by [email protected]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.
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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.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
