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The internet speed was too quick in this movie

posted 15 years ago by cryofry
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Love the movie, but seriously, the speed at which the computers and internet operated at was ridiculous. It was pretty much as fast at the current broadband services we have now! And this was 1995! I remember using computers at school around 1998 and they were so slow, as was the internet. Our first computer, which we also bought in 1995 was the slowest thing I've ever seen or used. It was only 8MB of RAM!

"It looks a bit sweaty in there so you may need to apply baby powder" Zapp Brannigan

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[–] erock52184 15 years ago

haha, that might actually be kind of funny.

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[–] shakesphere1-geo 15 years ago

I agree that the internet loaded to fast in this movie. My computer at the time was a Macintosh using OS 7 just like the ones in the movie. Even if you were using the fastest modem at the time you wouldn't load graphics that fast and it was about 4 years later when the first high speed broadband services came out.

The movies was a little ahead of it's time but it's probably one of the first movies that showed people living there lives on the internet. Today that's more common than it was in 1995.

[–] Max06 14 years ago

The movies was a little ahead of it's time but it's probably one of the first movies that showed people living there lives on the internet. Today that's more common than it was in 1995.

That's likely the main reason this movie is still popular and a guilty pleasure to re-watch -- showing the early Internet and users interacting with it (even through movie terms).

The identity theft plotline is also ahead of its time.

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[–] HowYaLikeDemApplesWill 11 years ago

"Since she was able to use her computer on the beach & all- back then, impossible"

1 - She was working on her laptop trying to decode the virus...it didn't verify whether she had Internet connectivity or not.

2 - It might not have been readily available or economically feasible for most of America, you have to remember, this was her job, and internet connectivity from a beach in 1996 was clearly not "impossible".

Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

[–] droche-3 14 years ago

I don't have any trouble with the speed of the internet. What gets me is how the "virus" manifested itself visually. Come on, now really! The screen dissolves like a watercolor painting? Did the video card drivers sacrifice themselves first? Ha ha ha ha. They went away with all the grace of the Wicked Witch of the West (which is where the www comes from in internet addresses, by the way) melting away after being hit by water.

What a world. What a world.

"When you throw dirt, you lose ground" --old proverb

[–] rams_lakers 14 years ago

I agree....that dissolve was a little hokey, especially when she infected the Gatekeeper's mainframe with the floppy disk. I guess we can call it a visual aid for the computer illiterate. Love the movie though...one of my favorites to fall asleep to.

[–] wasinoz 14 years ago

it had speed of 128Kbps, on telephone line.

people, study a bit, before ask.

[–] [email protected] 14 years ago

If she was a professional programmer working from home odds are that the company provided her a T1.

[–] The_ApprenticeUK 14 years ago

On the special anniversary edition in the extras the crew are talking about the research in advanced tech and said a lot of the stuff was ahead of its time but will be around in the future, bang right. The virus thing dissolving screen I can only think was for the viewer’s intelligence and visual is the best way for a viewer to understand a virus is killing of the software.

[–] SnapCrackledThePop 11 years ago

I also thought it funny she never got a busy signal!

[–] hilljayne 11 years ago

I wish the connection I have NOW was as fast as the one in this movie! But hey, it's a movie!

Dammit Carol Sue, where is the vodka?!

[–] z99 8 years ago

If the internet speed is what bugged you most in this incoherent, inconsistent, illogic and absurd film, then consider yourself lucky.

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