[DoneWithAllThat]

Part of what made this movie so startling when it came out is it was the first (and really only) film that was plainly aware of hacker subculture at the time and is loaded with easter eggs demonstrating that. It was at once a ridiculous parody of it and an homage to it. It’s like a love letter to small-h hackers.

[ulkesh]

> loaded with easter eggs

Like a 28.8 Bps modem.

Bps. Not kBps. Just Bps. Perhaps the actor just misread the line and the editors kept it. Still makes me itch to this day.

[hnuser123456]

I wonder what the highest bandwidth you could get with smoke signals is. Have 288 fires and a bunch of people opening and closing lids on them in 10-second intervals. Awful latency though

e: actually that's probably around the speed of morse code or human speech

[sleton38234234]

yeah, he definitely misread the line and the editor probably didn't catch it. i mean, checking wikipedia, seems like even the very first router/modem had 300 bit/s and that was in the 60s. probably should have been 28KBps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem

[xenospn]

I had a 300bps full length ISA modem. It was a beast!

[8bitsrule]

I once built a modem that converted 45.5 baud to 110 baud. Two clock crystals drove the price up.

[toast0]

The liner notes for the dvd have a chapter named Risk is Good, if you wanna be salty about more stuff.