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by 1MoreThing 2082 days ago
I thought it was a pretty compelling idea when I first saw it in the original Jurassic Park movie, even if that was a metaphor for "hacking."
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The "unix system" from Jurassic Park was a real application made by SGI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)

All of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#3D_file_managers look interesting, particularly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_System_Visualizer reminds me of s3dfm and looks like it might be mildly useful, unlike tdfsb(6), which is a bit fun to use in a large directory of images (though that takes surprisingly long to load), but has little use beyond that.
When I was 10, I imagined the internet was like a first person 3D game and the police would have to hunt hackers by running after them in the virtual world.
This reminded me of being around the same age, and thinking that if me and a friend is on the same webpage we would see each other on screens in the browser window somewhere.