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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is how we all thought and hoped we would surf the information superhighway

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

The Chuck E. Cheese near me when I was a kid had the stand-up version. I was obsessed with that game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

You mean how we'd sure the information Jetstream.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

I love the green theme on the menu, they deliberately changed their cable box settings for that. Throws me back.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Decent book, USSR is building a new supersonic jet with a new interface that can be controlled by thought. American pilot chosen for a mission to steal the jet, and has to think commands in Russian for the jet to act on them. “How do you say ‘fire’ in Russian?”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The movie's not bad either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm a sucker for most Cold War stuff and did really enjoy Firefox

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Huh, there's a very similar book, "Day of the Cheetah" by Dale Brown. Same plot except the US and USSR roles are reversed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

an image of the old atari firefox laservideo box art, edited to say "firefox: new from mozilla"

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an image of the old atari firefox laservideo box art, edited to say "firefox: new from mozilla"

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the old atari firefox laservideo box art

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just remember to think in Russian.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"OK, how can we make a web interface more difficult to use?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The javascript is written in cyrillic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

SQL is written in Newfie.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Soviets in this movie are as cheesy as the terrorists in True Lies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

"With one turn of that key..."

"What key?"

"That key! Who... who's taken the key?!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I think this was more realistic but my mind is placing it from about the same time as blue thunder and airwolf. Feels like there was a lot of super flying device things around that time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They don't make docs like they used to. For what it's worth, those "...for Dummies" books were never going to make anyone an expert on anything, but every one of them I've ever read was the most densely packed set of comprehensible information on the subject available at the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

They don't do it anymore. Things changed.