Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Cory Doctokov: Wargames: finest geek movie ever

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Wired's got a long, loving feature on the cultural significance of War Games, perhaps the greatest geek movie of all time, a film that inspired a generation of hackers and nerds. They interviewed a wide variety of nerds, hackers, and some of the original filmmakers for the piece.

got a long, loving feature on the cultural significance of War Games, perhaps the greatest geek movie of all time, a film that inspired a generation of hackers and nerds. They interviewed a wide variety of nerds, hackers, and some of the software used to to generate the giant sign hanging over the entrance, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't: TRANSLATE SERVER ERROR. Ah, the special problems of translations into other alphabets. Link ( Thanks, Bri ! )