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Hacker culture was quite mainstream in the 80's, already. This was a refactoring of it. War Games and Tron and other movies got there first. I think that's t
by aa-jv 1y ago
Hacker culture was quite mainstream in the 80's, already. This was a refactoring of it. War Games and Tron and other movies got there first.
I think that's the reason I don't have the affinity for this movie that many do - it created incorrect stereotypes which still persist today.
- glimshe 1y agoThe movies you mentioned were far from any type of hacker culture. They were much more about the power of computers, then a mysterious machine people knew little about.
- aa-jv 1y agoWar Games is literally about a hacker. Tron is literally about a hacker. Sneakers is about spooks wanting to be hackers and hackers wanting to be spooks. Sneakers is the point where the militarization of hackers became mainstream.
- duxup 1y agoI feel like those films were sort of "along side" the hacker world. Sneakers to me was more on point.
- digger495 1y ago_incorrect_ stereotypes? Stereotyping isn't inherently bad, it's just lazy. That having been said, I think Sneakers gets them all correct.