War Games, the movie

If Matthew Broderick only made two movies, that would be good enough for me. I have always liked both Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and WarGames. Wait...maybe he only made two movies...naw. . .but I only saw him in two. I digress. War Games was a big hit, and before cell phones, and before more than just a few Americans owned computers, this film introduced us to the world of hacking, phone-phreaking and, of course, global thermo nuclear war. Yeah, there was a little romance, and some parent troubles to make it all palatable. But it was mainly about a boy who got in over his head when he got into the menu pictured above, and nearly started a nuclear war. He was logged in to DARPA/net, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. That network later transmogrified and expanded somewhat to become The Internet.



The scenario was improbable, but good.I haven't seen the film since around the time it was released (the mid-80s). I wonder if it would hold up?

Finally, and I just remembered this. . .this is the movie that popularized the phrase Defcon (1,2,3,4,5). You still hear the word every now and then in the media...
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