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The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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dfxm12 wrote: post #55
claudiulodro wrote: post #34

Between Hackers, Masters of Doom, and other rad 90s hacker-coder media, software development really seemed like a much more awesome career than it turned out to be. If I had a time machine I would warn young me that it's really more like a combination of Office Space and Wolf of Wall Street. It would be awesome to listen to Prodigy or Megadeth while hackin' with the gang though. I'm still down for that if it exists s…

Hackers shows the career guys as lame and high strung, but the hobbyists (or as Razor and Blade put it, those hacking as a survival trait) as cool and having fun. It's easy for something fun to have the fun sucked out of it when it becomes a career. I think a part of the hacker sub-culture that Hackers touches on lightly is that you have to make your own space. It's not going to exist for you in some prepackaged easy…

the fastest way to make something UNfun, is to get paid for it. Do this excercise. think of any fun activity. then imagine getting paid for it. If you're honest and you know what those jobs are like then you'll quickly find that getting paid for something sucks nearly ALL the fun out it.

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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ulkesh wrote: post #79
DoneWithAllThat wrote: post #30

Part of what made this movie so startling when it came out is it was the first (and really only) film that was plainly aware of hacker subculture at the time and is loaded with easter eggs demonstrating that. It was at once a ridiculous parody of it and an homage to it. It’s like a love letter to small-h hackers.

> loaded with easter eggs Like a 28.8 Bps modem. Bps. Not kBps. Just Bps. Perhaps the actor just misread the line and the editors kept it. Still makes me itch to this day.

The liner notes for the dvd have a chapter named Risk is Good, if you wanna be salty about more stuff.

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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onychomys wrote: post #69
hericium wrote: post #56

Hah. Just yesterday I was contemplating how awful Angelina Jolie's character's handle "Acid Burn" was. Like - who the fuck would choose such nickname for themselves? Other than that - cult movie. Love it. Awesome soundtrack, not that bad acting and not that bad script for back when computers and internet were hip, not just the usual thing. "Hackers" caricaturally but still somewhat properly presents the phreaking cul…

I think we all had some screen names in high school that seem pretty terrible now.

Hey now, I think mine is fine :p

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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baldeagle wrote: post #15

I always wanted the epic boot up sequences like they had in that movie... in Windows for a bit you could change your boot image, but I could never get it to be an animation.....

I've got a dorky 'matrixish' oembootlogo on my desktop cause the bios tool asks for an image. Doesn't animate or anything though. It would be difficult to use the windows 95 pallete animation to do a rotation effect, I think.

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by sleton38234234 »

ulkesh wrote: post #79
DoneWithAllThat wrote: post #30

Part of what made this movie so startling when it came out is it was the first (and really only) film that was plainly aware of hacker subculture at the time and is loaded with easter eggs demonstrating that. It was at once a ridiculous parody of it and an homage to it. It’s like a love letter to small-h hackers.

> loaded with easter eggs Like a 28.8 Bps modem. Bps. Not kBps. Just Bps. Perhaps the actor just misread the line and the editors kept it. Still makes me itch to this day.

yeah, he definitely misread the line and the editor probably didn't catch it. i mean, checking wikipedia, seems like even the very first router/modem had 300 bit/s and that was in the 60s. probably should have been 28KBps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by xenospn »

sleton38234234 wrote: post #216
ulkesh wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> loaded with easter eggs Like a 28.8 Bps modem. Bps. Not kBps. Just Bps. Perhaps the actor just misread the line and the editors kept it. Still makes me itch to this day.

yeah, he definitely misread the line and the editor probably didn't catch it. i mean, checking wikipedia, seems like even the very first router/modem had 300 bit/s and that was in the 60s. probably should have been 28KBps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem

I had a 300bps full length ISA modem. It was a beast!

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by xenospn »

0x445442 wrote: post #164
kranke155 wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is John Carmack also a genius? Sometimes I can’t tell, but I suspect so.

If you’re going by IQ I’d bet he’s at least in the 145-159 highly gifted range.

I'd comfortably add 30 points to that, at least.

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by xenospn »

racl101 wrote: post #149
kloch wrote: post #144

Hackers was released September 15, 1995. The newest version of Netscape you could have been using the day it came out was 1.22. Netscape 2.0 came out three days later (September 18, 1995) and included first support for javascript, java, and plugins. The Dot-Com craze was just getting started but nobody knew how big it would become. Few worked for Internet startups and nobody had been to a launch party yet. I had regi…

I was just entering my teens during those years. Few things I remember vividly were - Hackers (1995) - Mortal Kombat the Movie (1995) (both of these movies used Orbital's Halcyon +On +On) song and a bunch of other electronic music - And I remember the Windows 1995 release. That was a HUUUUUGE software release.

+1 for Windows 95. I just remember wanting all the bits for my 486.
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