More Than 20 Years of the Web on the Big Screen

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday May 1, 2006 @01:27AM from the look-at-the-past dept.

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "WSJ.com has compiled clips from a dozen movies over the past 23 years that depict the internet, with varying degrees of accuracy. Among the selections: WarGames, Sneakers, .com for Murder, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The Matrix Reloaded used real Linux code, while Mission: Impossible had the improbable email addresses Job@Book of Job and Max@Job 3:14. In a related article, WSJ.com reviews some of the more-absurd Hollywood conventions when it comes to the web. Harry Knowles, of Ain't It Cool News, says, 'The thing that always gets me is watching people send emails. You click "send" and the entire document begins to fold into an envelope and disappear into the screen. I tend to send around 300 to 400 emails a day, and that would drive me insane.'"

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Password in 1 minute? by Animaether · 2006-05-01 02:07 · Score: 0, Redundant

In addition, the byline reads:
"... Good news: the system is password protected. Bad news: it only takes David Lightman ... about a minute to guess it."

I hope they mean excluding all the -days- he apparently (he was missed from school for days) spent reviewing library material on the author of the system, reviewing videos, etc. etc. He didn't guess it in 1 minute - it came to him in a thought that lasted mere seconds after Jennifer mentioned the designer's son's name, reciting it from an article.