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Frequency
2000 · Film · 118 min
Directed by Gregory Hoblit
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father must find a way to fix the consequences of altering time.
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Graduated with a CS degree in 1996. Went to work right away for a media company helping run all their web sites. (A few dozen Ultra 2s on a FDDI network connected to NetApps. Served mostly by Apache. A couple beefier boxes serving dynamic content using Perl CGI scripts. The horrid Netscape Server to run early backend JavaScript. Management over a frame relay network. Had friends at Excite, Equinix, etc.)
(In college on the side, I ran a tiny local ISP with a couple dozen Hayes modems connected to a Livingston Portmaster. T1 uplink. A couple PCs running Linux. Before college I had been hanging out on AOL giving technical advice, and before that was using an Apple II dialing into BBS's.)
Which is all to say, I was there for all of this and this piece is pretty much spot on.
When the movie Frequency (which has a communicating across time aspect) was made in 2000, the company the screen writers went to for how to get rich by investing in the right stock? Yahoo.
https://youtu.be/9rzVftbbiBo
That reminds me of the movie Frequency, in which the characters can use a ham radio to talk across time. A person from the future gives a cryptic hint to the person in the past by telling him to pay attention to "yahoo". In the ending scene of the movie, the younger man's fancy car bears a license plate with that name.
It's funny to think that Yahoo was once thought of as an amazing stock tip to give someone. The movie came out in 2000 and was presumably written/filmed 1-2 years prior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_(2000_film)
Every time I hear about Yahoo these days, I am reminded of the movie Frequency. At the end of the movie, the protagonist is driving a fancy mercedes with "YAHOO" as the license plate, implying investments in Yahoo made him rich. How ironic that since the movie came out, Yahoo started its decline.
http://www.rexblog.com/2012/05/13/47671
I remember the movie Frequency (2000) about a radio that transmits through time. Somewhere in the movie a character from the future tells a character in the past to "buy Yahoo".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_(film)
There is a movie dialogue where a man from the future tells his friend in the past:"I want you to remember this word, okay? It's kind of like a code word: Yahoo. Can you remember that?" It ends up making his friend rich in the future. The movie is Frequency(2000)