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So I was only a couple of years older than her in that movie when it came out in 1993 and knew UNIX and I still facepalmed at that line. It's delivered in the silliest way.
My dad worked at HP when that came out, and had brought an old HPUX Unix machine home. No GUI to be found, let alone a 3d filesystem GUI
If I remember right that was an SGI machine in the movie. I haven't seen the flick in ages and I haven't sat in front of an SGI machine in even longer.
It was a real file manager running on IRIX, though.
https://www.siliconbunny.com/fsn-the-irix-3d-file-system-tool-from-jurassic-park/
I would’ve thought you were the coolest ever, I wasn’t even 10 when it came out and thought computers were super interesting but my parents both couldn’t afford and didn’t have any desire to buy one. School time was limited to at best an hour a week and that was always for a directed activity.
I look at it now as someone in IT and can roll my eyes at the goofiness of it but I fucking loved that scene when I saw it the first time
I grew up in a college town with a dad that was interested in computers but didn't understand them, so I inherited them when he gave up. It gave me a lot of experience by the time that movie came out. I was already in high school too, so that helped. But if you wanted to use the internet back then, almost pre-web, knowing UNIX really helped.
I had SUCH a crush on her when I was a kid just because of this scene.