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The funny thing is that, unlike fake UI in other movies, this was indeed a real demo for silicon graphics computers: http://www.sgistuff.net/funstuff/hollywood/jpark.html

Towards the end of the movie the kids use the computer to lock the doors. This is the great moment of fsn (“fusion”) the File System Navigator which is a real demo application and was not written for the movie. A binary was available from the official Silicon Graphics website for a long time.

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Dead link

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No it works, you just need to go without https security. You might need to allow your browser to do that though.

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And the movie portrays it accurately, too. Waiting for the 3D flyover to render feels painfully slow, regardless of how many doorknob mastering dinosaurs are trying to kill you.

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It was a real 3D filesystem navigator, which may sound like a bad idea, that’s because it was a bad idea.

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For the time it came out it looked pretty cool at least, which at least all was needed for the movie. I remember reading up years later how it was an actual program which I thought was pretty neat, they spared no expense in their computer visuals heh. After actually working in enterprise systems I do understand how awful that’d be to work with.

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It’s got all the files of the whole park. It shows you everything.

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If movies have taught me anything, the internet is green blocks that you have to fly around. Be sure to avoid big flashing red things - those are computer viruses

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