{"id":113,"date":"2005-10-21T23:24:50","date_gmt":"2005-10-22T04:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericgharrison.wordpress.com\/2005\/10\/21\/computers-in-movies"},"modified":"2005-10-21T23:24:50","modified_gmt":"2005-10-22T04:24:50","slug":"computers-in-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Computers in movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!E4092A968B7C1A54!154\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<div>Through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\">Digg.com<\/a> I found a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annoyances.com\">Annoyances.org<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annoyances.org\/exec\/show\/article09-127\">The use of Computers in Movies<\/a> list.\u00a0 This thing is dead on!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>A couple of my favorite items (not in the list):<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>In the movie Hackers (so bad I watch it every now and then just to laugh at it), when the main guy asks the love interest \/ hot goth hacker chick (or whatever she is) if she&#8217;s woman enough for her computer &#8211; a bitching IBM laptop with something like a 386sx in it.\u00a0 Oh yeah, take that!\u00a0 Also gotta love the &quot;Gibson&quot; (mainframe).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen many mainframes in my life, and not one looked as cool as that thing!\u00a0 Look at the blinking lights!\u00a0 Ooooh, shiny!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>In the movie Antitrust &#8211; one program uploaded to a bunch of satellites manages to override the contents being displayed on every single computer, television, pda and cell phone on the planet.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Finally, I leave you with this, perhaps the worst line ever uttered in a movie relating to computers:<\/div>\n<div>&quot;This is Unix&#8230; I know this!&quot;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through Digg.com I found a link to Annoyances.org The use of Computers in Movies list.\u00a0 This thing is dead on! \u00a0 A couple of my favorite items (not in the list): \u00a0 In the movie Hackers (so bad I watch it every now and then just to laugh at it), when the main guy asks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}