Sci-Fi Fact - Technology

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[neilski]

WarGames with Matthew Broderick was 1983. He had a PC and some sort of internet connection with one of those old modems you had to put your phone handset on.

[crofty1984]

I've noticed that's a turning point in films, they are set in "the future" around 2010-2050 and there's no mention of the internet (or similar)

[dundarach]

West world had the virus that spread amongst the robots.

Logans Run they put themselves on the system that let other people browse them - remember that

[Man-At-Arms]

Brainstorm with Christopher Walken,
that had someone connecting in via dialup

[jimpritchard]

neilski said:

WarGames with Matthew Broderick was 1983. He had a PC and some sort of internet connection with one of those old modems you had to put your phone handset on.

Now THAT's a movie!

[hairykrishna]

neilski said:

WarGames with Matthew Broderick was 1983. He had a PC and some sort of internet connection with one of those old modems you had to put your phone handset on.

That's not really sci-fi though. His setup was actually in use by a bunch of people at the time.

20 years isn't long enough long ago; BBSes came about in the late 70's which were arguably 'internet like'. Email, FTP and ARPNET were late 60's. Not really predictive sci-fi if the tech already exists!