It's a Unix system

helgi27 · 839K views · 2009 · 0:18

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Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters bring it up as a joke about ridiculous movie computing, though some note it was a real Unix file browser (FSN).

What it is

A clip from Jurassic Park in which Lex says, "It's a Unix system, I know this," while navigating a 3D file system view.

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What Hacker News said

Cites cleverjake · 2012-05 · on “The girl with the ANSI tattoo”

Matrix 2 rather famously involved an actual ssh escalation using nmap. Takedown (aka Track Down) was another fairly accurate example of hacking (though highly inaccurate historically). One of the more famous examples of "Movie OSes", Jurassic Park ( [this video] ), actually was a real unix system running FSN