Sometimes nostalgia clips are just too good, and too hilarious, not to share, so here’s a slice of viral-ness from this past week.
With the internet in its infancy, the ’90s were flooded with movies about hacking and the untapped potential of cyberspace – like Sneakers, Disclosure, The Net, Johnny Mnemonic, and – naturally, 1995’s Hackers (“Hack the Planet!”).
Enter Julia Stiles’ recurring character on PBS’ Ghostwriter, Erica Dansby – a no-nonsense hardcore hacker all about that cyber life. In this clip from the four-part story, “Who Is Max Mouse?,” a hacker disrupts the school’s computer system, causing our heroes to get a “crash course in the internet in its cruder and more basic form, including chat rooms and bulletin boards.”
Here’s the clip, as shared by critic D. Patrick Rogers on Twitter…
Julia Stiles as the school newspaper’s cyberpunk editor-in-chief on a 1994 episode of ‘Ghostwriter.’ I will never get tired of this clip. pic.twitter.com/Nzb8q0gwRq
— d. patrick rodgers (@dpatrickrodgers) January 29, 2020
“Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace?”
Suffice to say, the moment when Erica looks longingly at her desktop monitor and says “It’s a world where you’re judged by what you say and think, not what you look like. A world where curiosity and imagination equals power” is everything. If only we viewed the internet with such awe and glowing admiration these days.
Ghostwriter was a mid-90s children’s mystery that ran on PBS, about a team of young detectives who solve crimes with the help of an invisible ghost named Ghostwriter. This past fall it was announced that a Ghostwriter reboot series was in the works at Apple TV+.
Anyhow, back to your regularly scheduled internet. Thank you for indulging in this detour.
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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.
Source: IGN.com Young Julia Stiles is All About That Cyberpunk Life in This Clip from 1994