On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Anthony Clifton - Retrocomputing.com wrote:
> At any rate, I returned home to a gift from my wife: WarGames on DVD
> with feature length commentary by the writers and director.
> Fascinating stuff. They claim to have invented Wardialing, which I'm
> more or less certain was invented by Draper with a prototype of the
> AppleCat modem.
They didn't invent "wardialing", but the term came to be after the movie
premiered, as people associated the act of dialing many thousands of
numbers in hopes of finding a carrier to explore with what David Lightman
did in the movie, hence "war[games]dialing". I used to call it "scanning"
before I ever heard the term "wardial", and didn't understand the
reference until much later.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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