I loved the movie Wargames - the whole AI premise was far fetched in the 80s but otherwise a very good movie about hacking. The screen effects were pretty amazing for the time. I’ve always wondered if WHOPPER was a marketing tie-in with Burger King, could have been called BELL GRANDE in an alternate universe. The movie is a good example of how far voice generation has come since the 80s and that was a pretty slick way to make watching text scroll more exciting for a movie audience.

I still use “war dialing” lists from old issues of Phrack magazine when I need a busy number to give someone asking for mine. But it’s been a long time since I’ve caught someone using “pencil” or “joshua” as a password (or even “trustno1”) but both were popular choices in the 80s (and 90s for the x-files one).