Hollywood has always been very bad at depicting tech! Till late 90s and also in the early 00s every computer in every movie had no GUI, no mouse, green phosphor

Hollywood has always been very bad at depicting tech! Till late 90s and also in the early 00s every computer in every movie had no GUI, no mouse, green phosphor displays and obviously beeped at every keypress. There are exceptions: Jurassic Park, in 1993, featured a real UNIX system ("It's a UNIX system!"), a real SGI workstation with its GUI[0]. Modern online computers, aka the internet (with mouse and everything this time) made their debut in the mainstream "You've Got Mail" (1998). As for Stranger Things, these are creative people, I guess instead of trying to be extremely accurate (and still get something wrong), they went for a credible yet not realistic way, featuring some easter-eggs in a post-modern fashion, so eventually geeks like us could scream: "Look! Iframes!!". [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)