I would like to know what are some recommended movies on history of computers and programming. Thanks.
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You want "history" or "movie"
I think TRON is the "prime" example, where the Users were God's
Heiko Hatzfeld
2009-09-23 14:45:37
+1 excellent movie
alex
2010-01-11 01:21:34
+10
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While it's probably not completely accurate, it does show a lot of older computer technology, and is actually interesting to watch.
Kibbee
2009-09-23 14:46:33
"... probably not completely accurate ..."? Even *for its time,* it was horribly inaccurate.
MusiGenesis
2009-09-23 15:02:36
I agree with MusiGenesis. Might as well list "Independence Day" where they upload a virus into the Alien Mothership. Anyone knows the aliens were using Windows 98, making them virtually immune to that attack.
Smandoli
2009-09-23 16:24:02
It is a great movie, I love to watch it even today after gawd knows how many times, but it's hardly accurate. Maybe in the terms of how people who do not deal with them think of computers and react. That part is believable.
ldigas
2009-09-23 16:55:29
I was thinking accurate in terms of dialing all the numbers until you find a modem listening, or dialing into your schools computer. Sure the whole idea of a computer controlling the nuclear weapons is far fetched, but a lot of the other stuff is pretty realistic.
Kibbee
2009-09-24 00:04:38
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First of all I think this is a nice question!
My primary resource for "movies" is youtube. Just type in the subject and you get al list of presentations and lectures, in a lot of them they start of by giving some history of the subject they handle...
Nicky De Maeyer
2009-09-23 14:47:03
+10
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Revolution OS is awesome: http://www.revolution-os.com/
It's got tons of interviews with key players in Linux history.
njk
2009-09-23 14:48:30
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The Matrix... not the second two though and definitely not the last one.
Evernoob
2009-09-23 16:16:14
+4
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Freedom Downtime
The Code (2001 film)
In the Realm of the Hackers
Microprocessor Chronicles
and I've always liked Sneakers and Cypher, but they fall in a completely different category then the above ones.
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Cosmo: There I was in prison. And one day I help a couple of older gentlemen make some free telephone calls. They turn out to be, let us say, good family men.
Martin Bishop: Organized crime?
Cosmo: Hah. Don't kid yourself. It's not that organized.
ldigas
2009-09-23 16:22:04
+2
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A fun movie to watch along these lines is the Tracy and Hepburn movie "Desk Set". It's about office politics getting shaken up by a company's purchase of an "electronic brain". In this 1957 film they didn't even use the word "computer"!
Buggieboy
2009-09-23 16:44:54
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Hacking Democracy - document about bugs in computer vote counting software in US.
Lukasz Lysik
2009-10-01 21:06:21
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Terminator 2 - it's a very graphic explanation of why you shouldn't write shoddy unit tests.
Pavel Minaev
2009-10-01 21:13:24
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The KGB, the Computer and Me is an interesting drama based on actual event
mykhal
2010-08-28 22:55:07
+4
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The technology is incidental, but Office Space deserves a mention for doing such a fantastic job of capturing everything bad about working in IT.
timday
2010-08-28 23:50:33
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Sticking to the historical request ... The KGB, the Computer, and Me is a pretty good NOVA (PBS) documentary taken from Cliff Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg. The documentary doesn't seem to currently be available from the PBS site or it's Amazon page, but maybe you can find it other ways.
PTBNL
2010-08-29 00:07:32
+2
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Code Rush (documentary about Netscape)
The Machine That Changed the World (history of computers)
Enigma This one is actually kind of a stretch, it's really more of a spy/love story set at Bletchley Park during WWII. An early computer and cryptanalysis form the background to the story.
Charles E. Grant
2010-08-29 00:19:02