In case you didn't know: in "Jurassic Park", when Lex says "It's a Unix system! I know this!", it's not a Hollywood mockup.
What she's looking at is fsn, the File System Navigator, running on an SGI IRIS Crimson computer running the IRIX filesystem. IRIX was a variant of Unix System V with BSD extensions.
@shammack To a lot of people, if it's not a command line, it's "not Unix".
A lot of people aren't particularly familiar with Unix.
@noelle my dad used an SGI at work around that time so I had actually seen that GUI before. I guess it does seem slightly impractical but it seems like an OK concession to make it more visually interesting than a command line
@noelle LGR showed that when he reviewed one of the workstations.
The grand irony of that scene is that the "it's a Unix system!" sequence is MORE accurate than the depiction of the dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park".
@noelle yo, I am STILL mad that "Jurassic World" had non-feathery dinosaurs
@noelle the most believable thing about jurassic park is not the idea that zoos are impossible, but the idea that everyone is terrible at infosec and software will fuck you.
@noelle this post changed my life
@garbados I live to serve!
@noelle i once met an SGI
@bea IRIX wasn't the first flavor of *nix I encountered, but it was the first I had extensive access to.
@noelle neat! i don't know if i ever got on that box but there were a bunch of other weird things there, though that was weirdest i think. pretty sure there was a dec alpha there, something running solaris, a couple BSDs and some linux machines also
@noelle I always wondered if it that was an actual instance of Unix or not. Now I know. Thanks~
@noelle those IRIX UI developers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
@noelle I've never understood why people find that so funny