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Watching “Hackers” on cable last night reminded me of how much technology has changed in the past decade and a half. I realized how the movie marks it’s time in history by the references to dial-up, floppy disks, active matrix displays, RISC (reduced instruction set computer) architecture, and so on.

The response to Acid Burn’s new laptop was priceless: “Yo…this is ‘insanely great,’ it’s got a 28.8 bps modem!”. We have better connectivity, displays, and more processing power on mobile computing devices like smart phones, media players, GPS receivers, and satellite radio receivers,

I love and hate this movie equally. It tried so hard to make this subculture have mass appeal. But it is what it is.

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