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Hackers in the Media, List start: 10/28/92 - Doomsday.
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Sneakers, Fall '92
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-- 'mysterious crypto black box that deciphers anything'
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WarGames, Spring 1984(5?)
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-- Computer Whiz breaks into Norad, and nearly blows the world up
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MacGyver, Spring Episodes, 1990
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-- young computer hacker saves the day by bypassing
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security/alarms/doors
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Night Court, Old series (90?)
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-- Young computer whiz threatens school records, credit reports, ad
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naseum for attention
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Batman Returns/Batman
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(92, 91 respectively)
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-- Michele Pfeifer (Catwoman) guesses secret access code, computerish
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incompetent, Batman taps into everything imaginable -- more fictional
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than hackertype.
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Lawnmower man (92)
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-- "Someone is hacking the mainframe and putting 3 digit cipher locks
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on all outgoing lines, we're cut off from the net!"
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Mr. Bogus - Cartoon, Limited syndication WLVI (56 - Boston)
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Mr. Bogus, bleeps into a computer and hunts out a virus, and combats
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it.
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Duck Tales (Disney Afternoon) 92
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-- Scrouge and other go into the computer to recover his money that has
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been moved electronically by the Beagle Boys (Guh)
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Weird Science:
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-- Teenage kids, accessing some secret project are able to create a
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women -- Far fetched, but the concept is there
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[ed: Ok, I'm grasping here... Give me a break]
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Bloom County (Syndicated column, name change, Outland)
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-- Oliver 'Technical whiz hacker' does neat-o tricks... Genius.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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-- (Syndicated Cartoon, Nationwide) Common 'hacking into computer
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themes. Donnatello maybe? I confuse those blasted turtles.
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Foxtrot
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-- Instances of main character changes things in school records, blah.
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News Shows: 20/20, Dateline NBC, Nightline...
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A current affair, Donahue
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