Oh to go back...
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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.
A good exception to this rule is "Sneakers". Love that movie, and now I'm due for a rewatch.
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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.
You're saying that like the trope isn't alive and well to this day
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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.
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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.
ACCESS DENIEDACCESS DENIEDACCESS GRANTEDI'm in
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You're saying that like the trope isn't alive and well to this day
Maybe I needed to add a \s to that.
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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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Today on Two Minute Papers...
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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.
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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I came here to comment this. Glad to see it’s already here.
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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
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Maybe I needed to add a \s to that.
Oh damn I should have read that properly
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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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lest we neglect ol Jobe in Lawnmower Man.
(the one not affiliated with Steven King)
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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Its just bizarre to think about how awful trying to accurately convey an order verbally over shitty audio quality must have been
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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Looking forward to the future where I just think about pizza and it materializes in my mouth.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]By 'city street map' do you mean something that folds out into 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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By 'city street map' do you mean something that folds out into 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.
Single sheet of paper, yes.
But for small out of the way towns (population 2k-10k) you'd want one specific to the town otherwise you'd be looking at a tiny speck on a state sized map. And the big maps might not have all of the small city side streets or not be up to date.
For reference, the town I did delivery in currently has a population of ~3,000 people and occupies 2.7 square miles out of the 268,596 square miles of the Texas map. Doesn't make sense to use a map where you're only looking at about 0.0001% of it.
