Ferris Bueller, a hacker ahead of his time

Today, I’m taking  a break from battling software bugs so that my immune system can battle a fierce flu bug. I haven’t eaten anything all day because food makes my stomach burn. I’m overly hot one moment, and overly cold the next. Every muscle aches. I’m hoping a good night sleep cures it.

In my weakened condition, I started thinking about 80’s movie chararcter Ferris Bueller, and how he got his fabled day off by hacking into his highschool’s database from a home computer. The movie was released in 1986, and I wasn’t really using computers at the time. I was just six years old.

I don’t know about you, but I call bullshit! There’s no way Bueller’s highschool was storing records in a database that was accessible via the internet. Gopher servers first made their appearance in schools in 1992. I’d appreciate it if someone with a strong knowledge of computer history could weigh in.

Today I'm Cameron. Not faking it. "Let my Cameron go!" Drawing by samdrawsalot
Today I’m Cameron. Not faking it. “Let my Cameron go!”
Drawing by samdrawsalot

Leave a Reply

Powered by WordPress.com.

Up ↑

%d bloggers like this: