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I'm watching Miami Vice and in S04E07 ("Missing Hours") at around 12 minutes in, a very young Chris Rock is talking about being on a BBS.

Ah, the 80s.

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On 06 Sep 24 22:52:23, Sean Dennis said the following to All:

I'm watching Miami Vice and in S04E07 ("Missing Hours") at around 12 minute in, a very young Chris Rock is talking about being on a BBS.

Ah, the 80s.

Good catch, I'll have to revisit that episode....

I heard that "Global Thermonuclear War" was a popular 80's door game, haha

Nick

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Good catch, I'll have to revisit that episode....

James Brown also stars in that episode. It's a really bizzare episode.

I heard that "Global Thermonuclear War" was a popular 80's door game, haha

Along with chess.

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James Brown also stars in that episode. It's a really bizzare episode.

/bizarre dangit



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On 07 Sep 24 11:53:44, Digimaus said the following to Nick Andre:

I heard that "Global Thermonuclear War" was a popular 80's door game, haha

Along with chess.

What I always found amusing was the animated flying envelopes for emails and Usenet postings in Mission Impossible.... Tom Cruise being a super hacker spamming every group involving the Book of Job.

And every movie involving tech just HAS to have a big countdown timer, big 24-point fonts etc. Beep beep beep.

Remember Under Siege where the entire navy ship's computers have to reboot and its the sound of the Apple 2 floppy-boot sequence? Same with The Fugitive where Harrison Ford searches a database for one-armed men. Apple floppy noise.

Nick

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Re: Re: Huh
By: digimaus to Nick Andre on Sat Sep 07 2024 11:53 am

I heard that "Global Thermonuclear War" was a popular 80's door game, hah

Along with chess.

In case anyone's looking for a list of games...

U.S. FIRST STRIKE
USSR FIRST STRIKE
NATO / WARSAW PACT
FAR EAST STRATEGY
US USSR ESCALATION
MIDDLE EAST WAR
USSR CHINA ATTACK
INDIA PAKISTAN WAR
MEDITERRANEAN WAR
HONGKONG VARIANT
SEATO DECAPITATING
CUBAN PROVOCATION
ATLANTIC HEAVY
CUBAN PARAMILITARY
NICARAGUAN PREEMPTIVE
PACIFIC TERRITORIAL
BURMESE THEATERWIDE
TURKISH DECOY
ANGENTINA(SIC) ESCALATION
ICELAND MAXIMUM
ARABIAN THEATERWIDE
U.S. SUBVERSION
AUSTRALIAN MANEUVER
SUDAN SURPRISE
NATO TERRITORIAL
ZAIRE ALLIANCE
ICELAND INCIDENT
ENGLISH ESCALATION
MIDDLE EAST HEAVY
MEXICAN TAKEOVER
CHAD ALERT
SAUDI MANEUVER
AFRICAN TERRITORIAL
ETHIOPIAN ESCALATION
TURKISH HEAVY
NATO INCURSION
U.S. DEFENSE
CAMBODIAN HEAVY
PACT MEDIUM
ARCTIC MINIMAL
MEXICAN DOMESTIC
TAIWAN THEATERWIDE
PACIFIC MANEUVER
PORTUGAL REVOLUTION
ALBANIAN DECOY
PALESTINIAN LOCAL
MOROCCAN MINIMAL
BAVARIAN DIVERSITY
CZECH OPTION
FRENCH ALLIANCE
ARABIAN CLANDESTINE
GABON REBELLION
NORTHERN MAXIMUM
DANISH PARAMILITARY
SEATO TAKEOVER
HAWAIIAN ESCALATION
IRANIAN MANEUVER
NATO CONTAINMENT
SWISS INCIDENT
CUBAN MINIMAL
CHAD ALERT
ICELAND ESCALATION
VIETNAMESE RETALIATIO
SYRIAN PROVOCATION
LIBYAN LOCAL
GABON TAKEOVER
ROMANIAN WAR
MIDDLE EAST OFFENSIVE
DENMARK MASSIVE
CHILE CONFRONTATION
S.AFRICAN SUBVERSION
USSR ALERT
NICARAGUAN THRUST
GREENLAND DOMESTIC
ICELAND HEAVY
KENYA OPTION
PACIFIC DEFENSE
UGANDA MAXIMUM
THAI SUBVERSION
ROMANIAN STRIKE
PAKISTAN SOVEREIGNTY
AFGHAN MISDIRECTION
ETHIOPIAN LOCAL
ITALIAN TAKEOVER
VIETNAMESE INCIDENT
ENGLISH PREEMPTIVE
DENMARK ALTERNATE
THAI CONFRONTATION
TAIWAN SURPRISE
BRAZILIAN STRIKE
VENEZUELA SUDDEN
MAYLASIAN ALERT
ISREAL DISCRETIONARY
LIBYAN ACTION
PALISTINIAN TACTICAL
NATO ALTERNATE
CYPRESS MANEUVER
EGYPT MISDIRECTION
BANGLADESH THRUST
KENYA DEFENSE
BANGLADESH CONTAINMENT
VIETNAMESE STRIKE
ALBANIAN CONTAINMENT
GABON SURPRISE
IRAQ SOVEREIGNTY
VIETNAMESE SUDDEN
LEBANON INTERDICTION
TAIWAN DOMESTIC
ALGERIAN SOVEREIGNTY
ARABIAN STRIKE
ATLANTIC SUDDEN
MONGOLIAN THRUST
POLISH DECOY
ALASKAN DISCRETIONARY
CANADIAN THRUST
ARABIAN LIGHT
S.AFRICAN DOMESTIC
TUNISIAN INCIDENT
MALAYSIAN MANEUVER
JAMAICA DECOY
MALAYSIAN MINIMAL
RUSSIAN SOVEREIGNTY
CHAD OPTION
BANGLADESH WAR
BURMESE CONTAINMENT
ASIAN THEATERWIDE
BULGARIAN CLANDESTINE
GREENLAND INCURSION
EGYPT SURGICAL
CZECH HEAVY
TAIWAN CONFRONTATION
GREENLAND MAXIMUM
UGANDA OFFENSIVE
CASPIAN DEFENSE
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I'm watching Miami Vice and in S04E07 ("Missing Hours") at around 12
minutes
in, a very young Chris Rock is talking about being on a BBS.

Was it one about cyber crime? ;)

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Mike Powell wrote to Sean Dennis:

Was it one about cyber crime? ;)

The one about UFOs with James Brown and Chris Rock.

A very strange episode.

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Re: Re: Huh
By: Nick Andre to Digimaus on Sat Sep 07 2024 12:02 pm

What I always found amusing was the animated flying envelopes for emails and Usenet postings in Mission Impossible.... Tom Cruise being a super hacker spamming every group involving the Book of Job.

It was worse in Spain because we didn't have much knowledge of what Usenet was back then (or now, for that matter). I think in the Spanish version they refered to it as "The Internet" so a lot of people didn't really know what the fuck was going on XD


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On 08 Sep 24 18:26:00, Arelor said the following to Nick Andre:

What I always found amusing was the animated flying envelopes for emails and Usenet postings in Mission Impossible.... Tom Cruise being a super hacker spamming every group involving the Book of Job.

It was worse in Spain because we didn't have much knowledge of what Usenet w back then (or now, for that matter). I think in the Spanish version they refered to it as "The Internet" so a lot of people didn't really know what t fuck was going on XD

Ha! All I know is the first time I saw that movie, when I saw that particular "email client" I actually took a moment to search for one like it :)

Nick

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It was worse in Spain because we didn't have much knowledge of what Usenet was back then (or now, for that matter). I think in the Spanish version they refered to it as "The Internet" so a lot of people didn't really know what the fuck was going on XD

There is a Linux program (the name escapes me now) that turns your desktop
into a "Hollywood hacker" screen. It's hilarious.

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It was worse in Spain because we didn't have much knowledge of what

Usenet

was back then (or now, for that matter). I think in the Spanish version

they refered to it as "The Internet" so a lot of people didn't really

know

what the fuck was going on XD

There is a Linux program (the name escapes me now) that turns your desktop into a "Hollywood hacker" screen. It's hilarious.

hacknet on Steam is something I've always wanted to play on a laptop in an airport... It's a fun hacking game with some interesting visuals...

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To: Shurato
Re: Re: Huh
By: Shurato to digimaus on Sun Sep 08 2024 09:07 pm

From Newsgroup: micronet.chat.general

It was worse in Spain because we didn't have much knowledge of what

Usenet

was back then (or now, for that matter). I think in the Spanish version

they refered to it as "The Internet" so a lot of people didn't really

know

what the fuck was going on XD

There is a Linux program (the name escapes me now) that turns your desktop into a "Hollywood hacker" screen. It's hilarious.

hacknet on Steam is something I've always wanted to play on a laptop in an airport... It's a fun hacking game with some interesting visuals...

why in a airport?
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* In a message originally to Shurato, Jas Hud said:

To: Shurato Re: Re: Huh By: Shurato to digimaus on Sun Sep 08 2024
09:07 pm

From Newsgroup: micronet.chat.general

It was worse in Spain because we didn't have much knowledge of

what

Usenet

was back then (or now, for that matter). I think in the Spanish version

they refered to it as "The Internet" so a lot of people didn't

really

know

what the fuck was going on XD

There is a Linux program (the name escapes me now) that turns your desktop into a "Hollywood hacker" screen. It's hilarious.

hacknet on Steam is something I've always wanted to play on a laptop in

an

airport... It's a fun hacking game with some interesting visuals...

why in a airport?

It was a joke. It would look particularly suspicious.

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