Uh, Mr. The Plague, uh, something weird’s happening on the fediverse.
One of the very few movies from 1995 that still holds
It was so out of touch then that it hasn’t gone out of date
Shitting their pants over a 28.8 kbps modem, floppy disks, and roller blades.
Look, I love this movie, but, holds up? Come on, man, you’re old.
The US government will still use the same 1986 law they used in the beginning of the 1995 movie Hackers to throw the book at you in 2025 for doing anything online they don’t want you to.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
Check it out at 0:46
Oh man, what a reference.
Good work, I fell right into that.
😂😂😂
I should try this show…
Movies aren’t just set at “current moment I’m watching the movie”. Something can hold up while still being set in the past. People did, at that time, shit their pants over all those things.
Before one can hack the planet, one must learn how to hack 1507 computers.
Shoulda stopped at 1,337.
Some people just want to be one better. 170 times.
Mess with the best, die like the rest
If your command&control center is on dial-up, it’s easier to create a self-propagating virus that does not need to phone home
See, it’s because 1337 resembles the word “LEET,” short for “elite.”
I know but counting the infected machines and stopping at a specific number is hard if there is limited bandwidth to a central node (or no bandwidth in case of sneakerware). So early viruses could not be controlled once released nor tell if there’s 1337 copies already.
The word “1337” is an important part of the hacker lexicon
! |< |\| 0 \/\/. I’m just saying it was near-impossible to hack exactly 1337 machines in one attack back then.
Not with that attitude
Governments and corporations need people like you and me.
We are Samurai. The Keyboard Cowboys.
And all those other people who have no idea what’s going on are the cattle…
Moooo.
Uhh excuse me, Mr. The Plague?
Hack the planet!
Damn. Zero Cool must be getting pretty close to retirement by now.
Nah crowd strike took his record, so now he’s back at work
The Crown tanked hard in last 2 seasons. Too much focus on Diana.
You underestimate the British obsession with her.
There’s a whole portion of the gutter press that continues to trade based on continuing reporting regarding Diana.
Yeah but what made The Crown amazing was how it approached lesser known aspects of royal family and their orbit.
They could’ve still kept Diana story running in parallel but completely focusing on her was a massive downgrade. Season 3 had Tywysog Cymru which is one of my favourites.
Ain’t shit compared to crowdsrike
Dammit, I wanted to make that reference!
And crowd strike is all like “hold my beer, watch this”
Later on he started Overriding Crashes.
Is this the Matrix?
(sigh) WHY is my only copy of this movie on a VHS tape buried deep in the closet?
And I don’t even have a working VCR at hand.
Sounds like it’s time to hack the mainframe
Hack the planet!
Hack the Gibson, you mean
Hackers is so unapologetically queer. :3
I think that was just the 90s.
Ye, this is just what the 90’s were like haha
It is?
Fairly. Cereal Killer and Phantom Freak are hella gender. Burn dreaming about Crash crossdressing and the lingere. Crash being hella chill wearing a dress for the final scene date? All of the outfits are so good. The main romantic subplot being just as much about Burn’s desire for Crash as vice versa? Razor and Blade?
I’ve kinda stopped asking when people claim that. It never ever makes sense to me but also if they’re having their own little fun with it, go off
You ever see anything set in the 90s?
at some point something weird or gay or weirdly hay will happen and someone will shrug and say: “it’s the 90s”.
Zero Cool might have been lying lol
https://www.nytimes.com/sitemap/1988/08/10/
https://store.nytimes.com/products/new-york-times-front-page-reprint?variant=35826434120
Edit: the store link doesn’t keep the date -_- you’ll have to select the date to see the front page.
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I am aware. Thus the joke.
Hyperlinking NY Times articles from that day make it seem like you were actually investigating the claim and using those to back it up instead of joking.
EDIT: Interesting to see what articles were actually on that day though.
Ah, makes sense. Nope. Just joking around on what is, arguably, one of the best movies of its time.
Clearly he hacked the archive to cover his tracks.
This is the right answer hahahaha
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TIL: Homelander was the greatest hockey player of all time.
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