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Post by Shane for Wax on Jul 30, 2011 17:02:05 GMT -5
Man... I remember being on AOL... I know someone who still uses AOL but as an ISP. |
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Post by Amaranth on Jul 30, 2011 17:52:44 GMT -5
But yeah, I understand they still do it in movies and on TV, but I think it was particularly more ridiculous back in the days where nothing and nobody was even connected to the internet. Hackers being the Most Triumphant Example. Pretty much the Ur example, too, because a lot of people took their lead from Hackers. Maybe not everyone, but it sure seemed like it. |
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Post by terri on Jul 30, 2011 18:31:26 GMT -5
My first computer, a TRS 80 Model 1: (bigass photo) Yes, that's a cassette drive as memory. A friend of mine had the Trash-80 color computer - which he used to play a pornified Donkey Kong. (It also had a cassette drive.) I had friends who owned Commodores and early Apples. I didn't use computers till the early 90s, learning DOS and WP 5.1 in my brief time at college (I vaguely recall also taking an AutoCAD class) - I then bought second hand computers, upgrading a 286 to a 386 and learning to noodle around with them (and yes, my first use of the internet was through AOL) till I bought that new Packard Hell. |
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Post by Smurfette Principle on Jul 30, 2011 18:58:35 GMT -5
I remember when we had dial up, and I was stuck at a ballet recital and couldn't call home because my dad was on the Internet.
That was a traumatic experience.
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Post by Hades on Jul 30, 2011 19:03:41 GMT -5
At last! A twirling image of R2-D2!
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Post by VirtualStranger on Jul 30, 2011 19:40:59 GMT -5
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Post by MaybeNever on Jul 30, 2011 20:52:38 GMT -5
Yay, Ski Free! Too bad the music came EXPLODING OUT OF MY SPEAKERS.
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Post by tygerarmy on Jul 31, 2011 2:11:29 GMT -5
I played it; I sucked horribly, I eventually was getting better, then out of no-where an abominable snowman runs across the screen and eats me, I have a sad now );
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Post by Art Vandelay on Jul 31, 2011 2:34:19 GMT -5
That yeti scared the shit out of me every time...
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Post by Shane for Wax on Jul 31, 2011 2:58:07 GMT -5
... I smacked into a lot of trees and rocks. Just like when I played the original.
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Post by Haseen on Jul 31, 2011 4:58:19 GMT -5
TV and movies still pull that crap. One of the worst I've seen was a clip from NCIS, where someone was hacking into their computer system (indicated by random charts and text documents flashing on and off), and two of the agents pounding away at a single keyboard at the same time in order to stop the hackers. Of course, there wasn't a mouse in sight. And then there's the infamous "I'll create a GUI interface so I can track the IP" line from CSI. There was a cracked article that had those as examples of how writers seemingly to have no idea how computers work. #1 was some teenager hid illegal files inside a game on his xbox, so the detectives had to play through it and open a door ingame that had the files behind it. Hacking in general being represented as some sort of computer game has always made me laugh. You just have to defeat a really hard boss to hack into the Pentagon, right? Edit: Yaaaaay! I'm skiin- ALL OF A SUDDEN YETI! |
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Post by erictheblue on Jul 31, 2011 7:28:49 GMT -5
(It also had a cassette drive.) I had friends who owned Commodores and early Apples. My grandfather had a Commodore that I would use to play games when I was a young kid. It had a floppy drive, but if I didn't type in the commands just right, it would ask me to "Push Play on Tape." Since there was no way to back out of that, I had to reboot. The first ISP I used was Prodigy. It ran on a (I think) 386 with a 14.4 dial-up. Call-waiting would kick you offline. |
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Post by servo on Aug 1, 2011 9:30:22 GMT -5
But yeah, I understand they still do it in movies and on TV, but I think it was particularly more ridiculous back in the days where nothing and nobody was even connected to the internet. Hackers being the Most Triumphant Example. Hack the Gibson! Hack the Planet!!! |
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Post by QWcanary on Aug 1, 2011 13:54:01 GMT -5
I love the shot of Gus' monitor in Superman III when he's "hacking" into the financial accounts -if you look at the frame, it's just a bunch of PRINT statements that don't really do anything (and yes, in the green text). I'm guessing it went something like this:
10 PRINT "This Sucks!"
20 GOTO 10
One rule movies and shows should follow to avoid dating their material -don't show the actual screen (or interface for that matter)!
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Post by Shane for Wax on Aug 1, 2011 14:39:28 GMT -5
I dunno I think the screens in the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo seemed fine. But I don't know how you do things on a Mac.
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