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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
It was a real 3D filesystem navigator, which may sound like a bad idea, that's because it was a bad idea.
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.
I actually tried out fsn once or twice when I was in the university in early 2000s. One of the Unix labs had a bunch of SGI O2 workstations. ...by some time in mid 2000s, all of the computer labs were just full of KVM-switched Windows+Linux systems.
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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