I never saw the movie as a kid but I was generally aware of the Hollywood concept of &quot;hacking&quot; a computer over a network.  We had a Commodore but I was not allowed to use the modem (dad kept it boxed up and hidden somewhere).<p>Still, one of the first programs I wrote for that Commodore was a way to trick my younger brothers into thinking I&#x27;d somehow &quot;hacked&quot; into some generic military computer system.  It was just a bunch of text menus where you input the number of the option you wanted and &quot;navigated&quot; this alleged remote computer.  I even used some time delay routine in the output so the text wasn&#x27;t displayed all at once, but rather &quot;typed&quot; out one letter at a time so it looked like info being received over a network connection.<p>Pretty sure it ended with accidentally triggering nukes or something ridiculous and I doubt I was fooling even my little brothers but it was a fun idea.  My concept of the underlying tech and military networks was rudimentary in the 5th grade to say the least.