Re:Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers (1995)
by necrotic_comp on Thursday December 14, 2023 @09:08AM
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That's exactly right! I didn't see hackers until I was in my mid 30s, but when they had the initial flyover of the city representing tables in a database ... I had a moment where I said "my goodness, this is the closest representation of how I think of data".
It's like when you're reading a book - you don't think about the words, the concepts and people come to life in your brain. I feel like this is the only movie to get that that happens with computers, too.
Re:Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers (1995)
by chromaton on Thursday December 14, 2023 @09:47AM
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"I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships, motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day, I got in..."
Re:Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers (1995)
by secretforest on Thursday December 14, 2023 @04:52PM
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Tron Legacy. Such a good film. My kids and I watch it a few times a year. I tried watching the original from 1982 and it just felt so... dated? Perhaps I'm spoiled like most people from all the great CGI and effects.
That's not the goal!
It's intended to be representative of the process of interacting with a computer, not the interface itself. At a time when most viewers had little or no first-hand experience with a computer.
If you showed a CLI then, maybe 1/20 people would understand it, and they'd be bored because they used it everyday at work.