I recently re-watched The Net. There are some pretty silly things in there.
One of my favourites was Sandra on the beach, in mid day tropical sunshine, using one of those old 1994 laptop screens. Riiiiiiight.
It was pretty impressive, I remembered wondering if that was something Americans got to do that we didn’t in Australia. Seems like other than a few localised experiments in some states it was fiction even for the yanks at the time. I must say I actually still think it’s pretty dope doing that. I liked the little remote controlled fireplace screensaver too. Seemed very cosy.
I love that movie! Im so glad I got to experience at least some of this time frame. Feela bad for the people who didn’t
Or like on jurassic park. Where the little girl saves the day by playing a video game on the security system
Oh that was just FSN, an actual filesystem browser for IRIX back in the day. You can install the port [FSV] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_System_Visualizer) if you want to browse your files as if they’re 3D objects on Linux today
TBF, have you played System Shock? That’s what hacking in the future actually looks like…
God that was awesome. The internet felt like something different. Now it’s just…there I guess. It has almost none of the excitement anymore.
Its still awesome if you dig and avoid all corporate shit. Neal.fun for example. Go donate!!
Nah it’s not exciting anymore sry
Aside from the odd interesting yootoob video
It got a lot less magical when the fascists and their corpo buddies stole a generation of young men and everyone’s parents and started trying to murder truth, yeah.
Um no. It lost its appeal way before that
Edit: actually can u be more specific lol cause for me the internet started sucking bad after 2016
The push im referring to started going hard in ~2014. Bannon and zuckerberg are the big banes, but someone at google was also involved.
It was getting shitty and corpo before that, but not as much as it ended up beong. The curve changed.
“Chicken jockey”
-Jack black
Whole theater starts going crqzy over two words
A lot of people cheered when the Technoblade pig tribute came up.
HACK THE PLANET!
Draws floppy disks from pants
I remember that scene lol. I was like, no way! How?!
I was thinking about this exact scene yesterday. When we first saw it, it was so amazing and an unnecessary luxury to order pizza from a computer. And then I just DoorDashed my dinner last night, and now it’s such a common thing
I literally think about that scene every time I order food online. I keep meaning to order pizza online and re-watch that movie just for that one scene.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Can you guess the movie ?
I’ve asked this before online to no avail: Movie set in late 80s maybe early 90s.
Thriller, tech/hacker focused
Possibly extremely bad, Btier or worse
There’s only this line I knew where the bad “entity” gets into a kid’s game and the kid says something to the effect of “there’s a guy in our game” (I watched it in French in like 2006 possibly)
Any ideas? I don’t think it was a French movie, I think it was dubbed from an originally English movie.
Arcade?
Arcade selon chatGPT… Personnellement j’ai jamais vu.
Lawnmower Man?
I quickly looked at the trailer then skimmed through 1 & 2 (free on YouTube) and it seems very close although I didn’t see the scene in thinking of.
I may be remembering it wrong but it was a kid and their friend playing a game and “the guy” shows up in it.
Very close! As in, this might be it but I skimmed past the scene I’m thinking of.
Also… what a nonsensical movie but hugely creative, makes me miss the 90s.
Spy Kids 3D has “the guy” in it, and you find out later on it’s Elijah Wood
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
If nothing else, at least the new Iran war will make all us Millennials feel a bit young again. Time to relisten to American Idiot, at the very least.
Or maybe I’ll just feel even older, as I can’t believe we’re still doing this shit.
I’ve never stopped listening to “Cali punk” so I’m good to go (I don’t care if green day is really from California or not, that’s what I call the happy poppy punk that’s not crusty enough to be called punk without a qualifier: NOFX, Offspring, Blink 182, Millencollin, etc etc).
I mean, call it whatever, it really doesn’t matter that much, but why not pop punk? Seems to be the more common label, and easily extended to non-US bands like Sum41, Gob, etc.
It’s definitely a home made and personal distinction but basically for me pop-punk is reserved for the ones I don’t like haha. It has a negative side so I needed another term for the (admittedly) pop punk bands that I do like. Again you’re probably right, that’s just the way I do it internally. And I just use it to describe the sound, Millencollin for example is Swedish. Also there’s bands like bad religion that still kinda have that sound but I wouldn’t dare classify them under “pop”, I’m sure NOFX would take an issue with it too, etc.
i remember the first time i ever ordered pizza online, total game changer for phone haters
