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Big Fat Liar
2002 · Film · 88 min
Directed by Shawn Levy
After one of his class papers is stolen and turned into a movie, a young student and his best friend exact a hilarious, slapstick revenge on the Hollywood hot shot who has taken credit!
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I remember a line from the 2002 movie Big Fat Liar involving a school assignment, that went something like, "And don't even think about downloading something from the internet; I want that essay hand-written".
One reason I remember it is the implicit assumption that one couldn't transcribe a digital essay onto physical paper.
The other reason is because it seemed strange to call it "downloading" when I was imagining a web page. Aside from the possibility that it was downloading a non-HTML document file, "downloading" didn't feel right for "visiting a web page", even though of course it is downloading in a more technical sense.
Like "streaming", downloading a web page into your browser's memory isn't saving it to long term storage.