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What We Are Reading, Hearing, and Watching -- June 29 2023
Netflix Miniseries “The Billion Dollar Code” Captures the Excitement of Early Hacker Culture
The Billion Dollar Code is a 2021 German television miniseries on Netflix. The series were based on a true event, a patent infringement lawsuit that two Germans brought against Google in 2014. In the early 1990s, these two Germans, one an art student and the other a programmer, along with a group of hackers, incorporated computer programming and digital art and developed a planet browser called TerraVision. In 2005, when Google Earth was released, the Germans believed Google Earth had plagiarized TerraVision’s code. If you have not watched the series, no spoilers here. However, if you are interested in the history of hacker culture, the series displayed some vivid scenes about Germany’s Chaos Computer Club (CCC), Europe’s largest hacker association with more than 40 years of history. The CCC claims they provide “information about technical and societal issues.”
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