It's a unix system

loblik · 234.8K views · 2013-02-15 · 1:25

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Overview

A one-minute clip of the Jurassic Park scene where a girl navigates the FSN 3D file manager on an SGI system and declares it a Unix system.

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Referenced in threads about futuristic interfaces, exotic OSes and Linux visualization as the famous movie FSN moment.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2020–2023

Topics

Film & TV clips GUI, HCI & interface history

What people said

voxadam · 2023-09 · Joke / meme
I really should have provided a couple of refs. For anyone that doesn't get the rest of the reference: [VIDEO]
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babypuncher · 2022-08 · Joke / meme
With the upgrades to WSL in Windows 11 you can run fsv[1] with minimal hassle and finally get the true UNIX experience[2]. 1: [LINK] 2: [VIDEO]
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tacticaldev · 2022-04 · Reference
Let's not forget the scene from Jurassic Park where the young female uses FSN to navigate a unix file system to save the day. "I know this" [VIDEO]
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