The Net (1995)

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I remember this being a gigantic Sandy Bullock movie.

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She gave Terri Hatcher a run for her money as the most downloaded woman on the internet.

That the one with that girl from The Bus?

I've never seen this. When I saw the subject, I thought it might be about the Diane Lane movie Untraceable, which I've tried to watch. May have to watch The Net on Prime.

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Sandy Bullock

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I really want to see those sexy little titties in the natural state.

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I remember seeing this movie and thinking it was so cool that she could order pizza off of the computer. It was so futuristic for 1995.

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Dude, Matthew Broderick could start a 3rd World War from his Commadore in 1984.

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Ah, the 90s and how computers/Internet work. Good times

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So the Net came out in 1995. Showing us how we are all connected...when almost nobody was connected except America Online bullshite closed box internet experience or hackers.

(we actually had Internet in 1985 for awhile early AOL, so expensive per minute and you could talk to a black screen - and War Games was right, you could make plane reservations.)

Back to point, 1995 in movies shows the Internet is a well-known thing - common at least in knowledge of it..."but you are aware that there is this invention called the internet and you can search for things on it?"

2000 - Family Man comes out and you have this phrase in the movie:

"How did you get that information? Did you look through his wallet? Surf some net?"

And this is the Vice-President of a major Arbitrage firm on Wall St. and he doesn't know what the internet is or how to get information.

Mid-90's movies were overly agressive on showing the Internet as some super-fast beast...see Hackers as well.

Early 2000's you have movies where people don't know what the hell the thing is.

Any new technology, Hollywood likes to seem cutting edge and oversells something before it's remotely ready for public mass consumption.

You had this great gulf in Internet talk in movies from 1985 to 1995 because Hollywood didn't know how to sell something that wasn't really public until later and then they oversold it.