One of the reasons why this movie sucks - The Net (1995) Discussion

[–] bitterbeing97 18 years ago

Well firstly, they're shipping programs. Ever tried to attach a program in an e-mail? Also, this was 1995, so instant messaging wasn't as we know it now.
Also, with things like programs and the type of work Angela did, concrete copies like discs are just a better idea.

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[–] PerlBoy 18 years ago

I lived in 1995 - E-mailing programs was common. These people were supposedly geeks - not your average Joes with a Yahoo!Mail accounts - so ofcourse they'd have their own mail-servers ie. sending the content of a single floppy via e-mail wouldn't have been a problem.

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[–] bitterbeing97 18 years ago

Yeah but I doubt the script writers were smart enough to know that.

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[–] stewievapes 18 years ago

*beep* BULL *beep* Do you have ANY clue how much a private server would run back then, with the internet being brand new technology?!

We're talking full-sized programs, here. Not digital photo albums. Maybe if your head hadn't been up your ass for most of 1991-95, you'd have noticed people who HAD the internet who were STILL dealing in floppys. I did it, you did it, corporations did it. . .everyone did it except for the government, who had the capacity to trade that sort of info online.

We're talking about 1995 dial-up on the 1995 internet being accessed by 1995 computers on 1995 phone lines. With that, you've got two choices: Spend up to three days transfering one file (and risk file corruption, someone tapping into the sensitive information during the transfer, or lapses in connectivity). . .or you could just FedEx someone a disk, and GUARANTEE they get the info the next day.

And guess what? PEOPLE STILL DO IT! People trade data CD's and DVD's all the time. Not corporations anymore, but the practice is very much alive in the private sector.

"But I was ALIVE in 1995!"

Yeah, and apparently you were in a frickin' coma.

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[–] JoeJack101 16 years ago

DarthBudzy, I agree 100% with everything you said in your post just there, and it is completely accurate. I'm so glad that there is actually somebody intelligent on this forum! It would have taken forever back then to send that data across the internet, and it was much more secure to use FedEx. That's the way it was done back then, you are right. Thank you for your post there. We needed it.

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[–] SoundOff316 16 years ago

File sizes are limited in email now, so I believe back then it was even smaller.

It is more secure to send someone an actual disc anyway. Certain things you don't want in email.

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[–] frans-17 18 years ago

You must be one of those silly people who print out their emails.

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[–] johnf_sf 8 years ago

FTP you jerk. Plus compression. Plus US Robotics Courier HST hardware compression.
Suck it b1tch. 2 l33t 4 u.

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[–] dan_nico17 18 years ago

I took the technical side of this movie in much the same manner as I took the archeology in Tomb Raider.

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[–] ragreen259 18 years ago

Yeah, those dialup modems really tore it up back in '95, didn't they? what, about 900 kbs? I guess you just started using computers in the past two or three years, right?

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[–] PerlBoy 18 years ago

In 1995 her connection would most likely have been a 56 K dial-up connection, paid for by her employer (she works at home). One of the sites she visits streams audio for christs sake, so she must have a killer. connection.

On a floppy there can be approx. 2MB, so let's just assume that the programs are 2MB.

Sending 2MB to a 56K connection would take somewhere between 10 and 30 minutes on a normal day, with glitches and *beep* taken into consideration.

There is the slight chance that one of the peers could have had an extremely slow connection, but that's not the point. The point is that this is a movie that revolves around the Internet, yet they used FedEx to send programs... If you can't see the stupidity in that, then... That's your problem.

Also, the Internet wasn't a new technology in 1995. The Internet (or rather, the technology) dates back to the creation of ARPA net in 1958. You are referring to the World Wide Web, which by 1995 already had excisted in ca. 5 years.

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[–] Bstone18 18 years ago

Ok

First, He sent her a file that he would not talke about over the phone.

Second, She sent him a viruse for his hall of fame.

Third, It was 1995 and now it's normal to send stuff by fedex ups and others.

Also in 1995 computer disk were very normal and fast way to move information with out stuff getting messed up.

Think before you talk.

Oh I almost forgot,

It's a movie and if you listen to the dvd they talked to people about all the stuff that was used in the movie so they knew what they were talking about when they wrote it and the movie was in 1995 but it was made in 1994.

Of all the computer movies that i know of Hackers and anitrust, The net is the most real.

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[–] Kharnaxe 18 years ago

What was with that screech noise her computer kept making??? And every time she hit a key her computer beeped.

In 1995 they had CD's, she should have used a CD instead, it would have been quicker.

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[–] shakesphere1-geo 18 years ago

They didn't use CD in the movie because most computers didn't come with a CD Rom back in 1995. Also they was sending this guy a virus for his collection and also something they didn't was observed. The GateKeeper firewall program would have picked up the program if he emailed it to her. Also remember email programs were primitive back then. No all of them did file transfers. I as also surfing the net in 1995.

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[–] SoundOff316 16 years ago

CD's were not the main mode of saving and transporting information.

Hell, it wasn't even an option for the average user. CD drives were just starting to ship on systems.

We bought a computer around that time with Windows 95 and my school got PCs that year what had WIndows and CD drives on them.

You certainly weren't burning anything on those things then.

You could listen to a music CD or pull a program off of a CD. That's about it!

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[–] schoduck 18 years ago

Say it aint so! Hey this was a great movie with all those high tech 486 computers with maybe 8 meg of RAM and hey, they were using super capacity 3.5" floppies, not the 5.25 or the 8 inchers. :):)

Any movie made in pre-Windows DOS days does look a little silly tech wise but the theme of the movie is still solid, even albeit done Hollywood style.

"Out of 10 people, half understand binary and half don't!"

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[–] wmav01 16 years ago

He mailed her virus. I thought that's why he didn't send it across the internet.

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[–] falcosponge 16 years ago

I dunno, but all I know is most disks were mostl being sent instead of CD's. CD's never really were around until c.1998.

Then again I was 4 years old when this movie was released, I just saw in school on my friend's iPod.

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[–] LatigoMeans 16 years ago

Keep repeating to yourself... "It's only a movie, it's only a movie..."

Besides which, wouldn't you think that if they couldn't track her down in a Mexican hospital given 3 days to do it, they would have been waiting for her at the airport parking lot. Bang-bang... movie over.

Disks?!?! Give me a break!

~LjM
Step on it! And don't spare the atoms!

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[–] ginger545 16 years ago

omg i can't believe this is even a topic. he shipped it fed ex because it was the way to get it without it having to go through the gatekeeper.

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[–] TeaBunny 16 years ago

Everyone sent files on disk thru FedEx back then! We used to send manuscripts on damn Syquest disks, and then Jazz and finally Zip disks. The only unbelievable part about this whole thing is that the FedEx guy wouldn't be like, "Hey Angela, how are you today?" because he saw her ALL THE TIME. What, did she have a different FedEx guy every day?

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[–] SoundOff316 16 years ago

Whats your point?

I remember saving everything on floppy discs back then too.

Fedex or UPS is the fastest way to physically ship something.

In 2009, that still applies. There are certain things you can't email to people.

You do know when this movie was made right?

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