alt Hacker NewsIt's quite good, but it gets very Six Feet Under by the end, and you have to suspend a lot of disbelief about technology; it's a little like Hackers in the sense that it's trying to communicate a feeling about operating in specific eras of computing, but not so much trying to realistically depict what it was like.
Christopher Cantwell, the showrunner, is also doing the new series of The Terror (aka North Pole Bear Show) that's premiering this year.
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A new The Terror? The one that came out some years ago was incredible, and very under-discussed I think.
By the end, the tech is just a plot device. The thing that gets us to the thing.
Hard disagree. The number of micro details it got right was insane. You’d have to be pedantic to think otherwise.
Right down to obscure LucasArts first online game.
I think the problem is that you can't really communicate that feeling without taking a lot of liberties, because it will seem boring and tedious to those not as invested, because it's hard to convey the excitement of a little box that can hold a small number of page-equivalents of text to someone who didn't know what it was like before.
I was a child during the early parts of that era, and so for that part I got most from reading books and seeing the public announcements, but I started my first company during the era depicted towards the end - an ISP - and I feel they got that balance roughly right.
But, sure, there were annoying deviation that is obvious to those of us who know how things happened. I don't think that was avoidable.