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Greg Hills @[email protected] · 2025-09-16 · 10:15 UTC

Tonight's movie was a 30-year celebration of Hackers (1995). I kinda recall the era, but I ... don't recall downloads being so slick. Not even at 28.8K, which was still kinda brand new and awesome at the time. Let alone the colours. Now, I did see some pretty colourful graphics distributed through BBS networks in things like ACiD packs, but computer generated art was generally, uh, much tamer.

Great rewatch with a lime Daiquiri to wash it down.

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Jordan @[email protected] · 2025-09-15 · 15:44 UTC

"Hackers" was released 30 years ago today.

I was 15 years old. My friends and I would watch this movie all the time together, while we aspired to be as elite as these guys. One night we videotaped ourselves hacking into a friend's BBS and changing his logon ANSi to something rather crude - and turning to the camera to say, "Well shit on me..." 😂

We knew the plot and most of the tech was bogus. That didn't matter to us. It was the *feel* of the movie that captured our imaginations - the style, the underground cyberpunk culture they portrayed, the early techno/electronica soundtrack (a masterpiece). We were computer nerds and this movie made us feel like hackers. Hack the planet!!

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