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by kloch 1370 days ago
Hackers was released September 15, 1995. The newest version of Netscape you could have been using the day it came out was 1.22.

Netscape 2.0 came out three days later (September 18, 1995) and included first support for javascript, java, and plugins.

The Dot-Com craze was just getting started but nobody knew how big it would become. Few worked for Internet startups and nobody had been to a launch party yet. I had registered my first domain name just two months earlier.

What an amazing time (1994-2000) to be alive and just out of school. It was our "Roaring 20's"

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I was just entering my teens during those years. Few things I remember vividly were

- Hackers (1995)

- Mortal Kombat the Movie (1995) (both of these movies used Orbital's Halcyon +On +On) song and a bunch of other electronic music

- And I remember the Windows 1995 release. That was a HUUUUUGE software release.

MK movie really got me into KMDFM. We'd hum the song on repeat as kids.
+1 for Windows 95. I just remember wanting all the bits for my 486.
Iirc, the movie's official website got hacked, saying it was a terrible movie and to go see "The Net" instead. Also, the movie's website got in to some hot water for hosting some kind of hacking information on it.