@todb Laughably, Scanners is the first movie that featured a human psionic interface to a computer network through POTS. lol. Awesome movie though.
@todb Laughably, Scanners is the first movie that featured a human psionic interface to a computer network through POTS. lol. Awesome movie though.
@todb I realize it's not a major release film, but thought the doc might be interesting to some.
ChatGPT said, snipped a lot for space requirements:
🖥️ Earliest Specific Mention (Obscure/Documentary)
For a direct reference to TCP/IP or the Internet (by name), you’re more likely to find it first in:
Documentaries or educational films from the late 1980s or early 1990s.
Example: The PBS documentary "The Machine That Changed the World" (1992) includes direct references to Internet technologies and protocols like TCP/IP.
@Viss Might I suggest you find Asimov's novella, "The Profession". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession_(novella)
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