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** Dust and contaminants will easily ruin a hard drive and its stored data. While attempting to recover the data off Cameron's burned out hard drive, Donna and the Cardiff engineers should have been handling the platters in a dust-free clean room environment instead of out in the open in Cameron's basement "office" in "Close to the Metal".
** Cameron is paranoid over the possibility of a repeat of the near-disaster of [[spoiler:Gordon's Sonaris program]] and wants to shut down all of "Community" over it. In practice, a programmer could easily simply delete the file-uploading feature to prevent the BBS from in any way trying to execute user-uploaded software.
** Gordon is seen working on a Commodore 64 in Season 2, but the real C64 does not use the "exe" file extension; it uses the "prg" file extension. He also codes in C on the machine[[note]]In fact at the time, programming purists advocated for (with good reasons) direct assembly-language coding for computers of the era. Gordon would have been aware of this.[[/note]]. While C compilers did exist for the C64, an experienced programmer like Gordon would have preferred a more powerful machine in order to get faster cross-compile times (e.g. a Unix workstation), especially since he's just come into a lot of money. But then again, Mutiny runs on the C64, and he explicitly designs the program to gauge the size of Mutiny's customer base.
** Sonaris somehow runs on both C64s and IBM [=PCs=]; there is no in-verse mention of cross-compiling for the systems' different architectures, either.
** Cameron is paranoid over the possibility of a repeat of the near-disaster of [[spoiler:Gordon's Sonaris program]] and wants to shut down all of "Community" over it. In practice, a programmer could easily simply delete the file-uploading feature to prevent the BBS from in any way trying to execute user-uploaded software.
** Gordon is seen working on a Commodore 64 in Season 2, but the real C64 does not use the "exe" file extension; it uses the "prg" file extension. He also codes in C on the machine[[note]]In fact at the time, programming purists advocated for (with good reasons) direct assembly-language coding for computers of the era. Gordon would have been aware of this.[[/note]]. While C compilers did exist for the C64, an experienced programmer like Gordon would have preferred a more powerful machine in order to get faster cross-compile times (e.g. a Unix workstation), especially since he's just come into a lot of money. But then again, Mutiny runs on the C64, and he explicitly designs the program to gauge the size of Mutiny's customer base.
** Sonaris somehow runs on both C64s and IBM [=PCs=]; there is no in-verse mention of cross-compiling for the systems' different architectures, either.
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** Dust and contaminants will easily ruin a hard drive and its stored data. While attempting to recover the data off Cameron's burned out hard drive, Donna and the Cardiff engineers should have been handling the platters in a dust-free clean room environment instead of out in the open in Cameron's basement "office" in "Close to the Metal".
** For testing the Giant's BIOS, the engineers should've had a EPROM programmer on site rather than shipping the code to a third party, so the EPROM can be rewritten as needed.
** Cameron is paranoid over the possibility of a repeat of the near-disaster of [[spoiler:Gordon's Sonaris program]] and wants to shut down all of "Community" over it. In practice, a programmer could easily simply delete the file-uploading feature to prevent the BBS from in any way trying to execute user-uploaded software.
** Gordon is seen working on a Commodore 64 in Season 2, but the real C64 does not use the "exe" file extension; it uses the "prg" file extension. He also codes in C on the machine[[note]]In fact at the time, programming purists advocated for (with good reasons) direct assembly-language coding for computers of the era. Gordon would have been aware of this.[[/note]]. While C compilers did exist for the C64, an experienced programmer like Gordon would have preferred a more powerful machine in order to get faster cross-compile times (e.g. a Unix workstation), especially since he's just come into a lot of money. But then again, Mutiny runs on the C64, and he explicitly designs the program to gauge the size of Mutiny's customer base.
** Sonaris somehow runs on both C64s and IBM [=PCs=]; there is no in-verse mention of cross-compiling for the systems' different architectures, either.
** For testing the Giant's BIOS, the engineers should've had a EPROM programmer on site rather than shipping the code to a third party, so the EPROM can be rewritten as needed.
** Cameron is paranoid over the possibility of a repeat of the near-disaster of [[spoiler:Gordon's Sonaris program]] and wants to shut down all of "Community" over it. In practice, a programmer could easily simply delete the file-uploading feature to prevent the BBS from in any way trying to execute user-uploaded software.
** Gordon is seen working on a Commodore 64 in Season 2, but the real C64 does not use the "exe" file extension; it uses the "prg" file extension. He also codes in C on the machine[[note]]In fact at the time, programming purists advocated for (with good reasons) direct assembly-language coding for computers of the era. Gordon would have been aware of this.[[/note]]. While C compilers did exist for the C64, an experienced programmer like Gordon would have preferred a more powerful machine in order to get faster cross-compile times (e.g. a Unix workstation), especially since he's just come into a lot of money. But then again, Mutiny runs on the C64, and he explicitly designs the program to gauge the size of Mutiny's customer base.
** Sonaris somehow runs on both C64s and IBM [=PCs=]; there is no in-verse mention of cross-compiling for the systems' different architectures, either.
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** In ''[=NeXT=] Tom consistently naysays everyone's ideas and is a complete ass to Joe. However, all his points are very valid and the other characters are mature enough to acknowledge this.
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** In ''[=NeXT=] "[=NeXT=]" Tom consistently naysays everyone's ideas and is a complete ass to Joe. However, all his points are very valid and the other characters are mature enough to acknowledge this.
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* PlatoIsAMoron: Gordon calls UsefulNotes/SteveJobs a "megalomaniac who loves form over function", referring to the UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh in the Season 1 finale and the [=NeXTcube=] in the Season 3 finale.
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* RealityEnsues:
** In a span of an afternoon, IBM is able to steal more than 68% of Cardiff Electric's business. Pissing off a giant corporation has repercussions.
** Joe might have a grand vision of selling a computer that can compete with the IBM PC but it is up to Gordon to actually build the thing. Soon the project is running into immovable barriers like the Laws Of Physics and solving one issue only leads to more problems. Increasing the speed also increases the heat generated by the components. An innovative solution to deal with the heat problem would make mass production difficult and make the costs of the final product too high. No wonder Gordon starts drinking again.
** At the beginning of the series Gordon is already in a fragile mental state. The enormous stress from being in charge of the designing and building the new computer pushes him way over the edge and he finally snaps at the end of "Giant".
** COMDEX is a big reality check for everyone. A competing product rips off their ideas and the Giant seems to be dead even before it can be demoed for the first time. Joe has to sacrifice his and Cameron's vision for what the Giant could be, in order to beat the competition. Dona's flirtation with her boss turns out to have dire consequences for the project and for her marriage. In the end, Joe discovers that while he and the Cardiff team fought to beat IBM, Apple developed the Macintosh and changed the computer landscape forever.
** The Giant Pro is a technologically worthy successor to the Giant, but a bad marketing campaign dooms its chances of ever being a top competitor in the PC market.
** Joe's actions at the end of season 1 caused more than $200,000 worth of damage and Nathan Cardiff uses this as an excuse to not pay Joe his share when he sells the company. He then says that Joe could sue him in court but Cardiff 's lawyers will then present as evidence all the other lies and misdeeds Joe is guilty of.
** Cameron's Mutiny is quite successful as a pioneer in online gaming but without a vision for the future it is on the verge of collapse. Cameron's anarchic and seat-of-the-pants management style creates a great creative environment but their infrastructure is shoddy and unreliable and their sales are plateauing as a result. In season 3, they manage to fix the biggest technological and management problems but realize that it just means that they are plateauing at a slightly higher level and there is no way they can beat their bigger competition like Compuserve. They need to expand into new areas or they will go into a decline that will put them out of business. [[spoiler: After a TimeSkip to 1990, we find out that Mutiny shut down sometime in 1988. It was unable to compete and the investors shut it down rather than hemorrhage more money.]]
** If you are buying computer equipment at night from the back of some guy's van for a fraction of their retail cost, don't be surprised when the computer parts turn out to be counterfeit.
** Donna and Cameron ignoring Ryan Ray, clearly one of the smarter people at Mutiny, and not cracking down on harrassment from his co-workers in addition, is coming back to bite them as Ryan purposely decides to change jobs and work for Joe [=MacMillan=]'s company.
** In a span of an afternoon, IBM is able to steal more than 68% of Cardiff Electric's business. Pissing off a giant corporation has repercussions.
** Joe might have a grand vision of selling a computer that can compete with the IBM PC but it is up to Gordon to actually build the thing. Soon the project is running into immovable barriers like the Laws Of Physics and solving one issue only leads to more problems. Increasing the speed also increases the heat generated by the components. An innovative solution to deal with the heat problem would make mass production difficult and make the costs of the final product too high. No wonder Gordon starts drinking again.
** At the beginning of the series Gordon is already in a fragile mental state. The enormous stress from being in charge of the designing and building the new computer pushes him way over the edge and he finally snaps at the end of "Giant".
** COMDEX is a big reality check for everyone. A competing product rips off their ideas and the Giant seems to be dead even before it can be demoed for the first time. Joe has to sacrifice his and Cameron's vision for what the Giant could be, in order to beat the competition. Dona's flirtation with her boss turns out to have dire consequences for the project and for her marriage. In the end, Joe discovers that while he and the Cardiff team fought to beat IBM, Apple developed the Macintosh and changed the computer landscape forever.
** The Giant Pro is a technologically worthy successor to the Giant, but a bad marketing campaign dooms its chances of ever being a top competitor in the PC market.
** Joe's actions at the end of season 1 caused more than $200,000 worth of damage and Nathan Cardiff uses this as an excuse to not pay Joe his share when he sells the company. He then says that Joe could sue him in court but Cardiff 's lawyers will then present as evidence all the other lies and misdeeds Joe is guilty of.
** Cameron's Mutiny is quite successful as a pioneer in online gaming but without a vision for the future it is on the verge of collapse. Cameron's anarchic and seat-of-the-pants management style creates a great creative environment but their infrastructure is shoddy and unreliable and their sales are plateauing as a result. In season 3, they manage to fix the biggest technological and management problems but realize that it just means that they are plateauing at a slightly higher level and there is no way they can beat their bigger competition like Compuserve. They need to expand into new areas or they will go into a decline that will put them out of business. [[spoiler: After a TimeSkip to 1990, we find out that Mutiny shut down sometime in 1988. It was unable to compete and the investors shut it down rather than hemorrhage more money.]]
** If you are buying computer equipment at night from the back of some guy's van for a fraction of their retail cost, don't be surprised when the computer parts turn out to be counterfeit.
** Donna and Cameron ignoring Ryan Ray, clearly one of the smarter people at Mutiny, and not cracking down on harrassment from his co-workers in addition, is coming back to bite them as Ryan purposely decides to change jobs and work for Joe [=MacMillan=]'s company.
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** In a span of an afternoon, IBM is able to steal more than 68% of Cardiff Electric's business. Pissing off a giant corporation has repercussions.
** Joe might have a grand vision of selling a computer that can compete with the IBM PC but it is up to Gordon to actually build the thing. Soon the project is running into immovable barriers like the Laws Of Physics and solving one issue only leads to more problems. Increasing the speed also increases the heat generated by the components. An innovative solution to deal with the heat problem would make mass production difficult and make the costs of the final product too high. No wonder Gordon starts drinking again.
** At the beginning of the series Gordon is already in a fragile mental state. The enormous stress from being in charge of the designing and building the new computer pushes him way over the edge and he finally snaps at the end of "Giant".
** COMDEX is a big reality check for everyone. A competing product rips off their ideas and the Giant seems to be dead even before it can be demoed for the first time. Joe has to sacrifice his and Cameron's vision for what the Giant could be, in order to beat the competition. Dona's flirtation with her boss turns out to have dire consequences for the project and for her marriage. In the end, Joe discovers that while he and the Cardiff team fought to beat IBM, Apple developed the Macintosh and changed the computer landscape forever.
** The Giant Pro is a technologically worthy successor to the Giant, but a bad marketing campaign dooms its chances of ever being a top competitor in the PC market.
** Joe's actions at the end of season 1 caused more than $200,000 worth of damage and Nathan Cardiff uses this as an excuse to not pay Joe his share when he sells the company. He then says that Joe could sue him in court but Cardiff 's lawyers will then present as evidence all the other lies and misdeeds Joe is guilty of.
** Cameron's Mutiny is quite successful as a pioneer in online gaming but without a vision for the future it is on the verge of collapse. Cameron's anarchic and seat-of-the-pants management style creates a great creative environment but their infrastructure is shoddy and unreliable and their sales are plateauing as a result. In season 3, they manage to fix the biggest technological and management problems but realize that it just means that they are plateauing at a slightly higher level and there is no way they can beat their bigger competition like Compuserve. They need to expand into new areas or they will go into a decline that will put them out of business. [[spoiler: After a TimeSkip to 1990, we find out that Mutiny shut down sometime in 1988. It was unable to compete and the investors shut it down rather than hemorrhage more money.]]
** If you are buying computer equipment at night from the back of some guy's van for a fraction of their retail cost, don't be surprised when the computer parts turn out to be counterfeit.
** Donna and Cameron ignoring Ryan Ray, clearly one of the smarter people at Mutiny, and not cracking down on harrassment from his co-workers in addition, is coming back to bite them as Ryan purposely decides to change jobs and work for Joe [=MacMillan=]'s company.
** In a span of an afternoon, IBM is able to steal more than 68% of Cardiff Electric's business. Pissing off a giant corporation has repercussions.
** Joe might have a grand vision of selling a computer that can compete with the IBM PC but it is up to Gordon to actually build the thing. Soon the project is running into immovable barriers like the Laws Of Physics and solving one issue only leads to more problems. Increasing the speed also increases the heat generated by the components. An innovative solution to deal with the heat problem would make mass production difficult and make the costs of the final product too high. No wonder Gordon starts drinking again.
** At the beginning of the series Gordon is already in a fragile mental state. The enormous stress from being in charge of the designing and building the new computer pushes him way over the edge and he finally snaps at the end of "Giant".
** COMDEX is a big reality check for everyone. A competing product rips off their ideas and the Giant seems to be dead even before it can be demoed for the first time. Joe has to sacrifice his and Cameron's vision for what the Giant could be, in order to beat the competition. Dona's flirtation with her boss turns out to have dire consequences for the project and for her marriage. In the end, Joe discovers that while he and the Cardiff team fought to beat IBM, Apple developed the Macintosh and changed the computer landscape forever.
** The Giant Pro is a technologically worthy successor to the Giant, but a bad marketing campaign dooms its chances of ever being a top competitor in the PC market.
** Joe's actions at the end of season 1 caused more than $200,000 worth of damage and Nathan Cardiff uses this as an excuse to not pay Joe his share when he sells the company. He then says that Joe could sue him in court but Cardiff 's lawyers will then present as evidence all the other lies and misdeeds Joe is guilty of.
** Cameron's Mutiny is quite successful as a pioneer in online gaming but without a vision for the future it is on the verge of collapse. Cameron's anarchic and seat-of-the-pants management style creates a great creative environment but their infrastructure is shoddy and unreliable and their sales are plateauing as a result. In season 3, they manage to fix the biggest technological and management problems but realize that it just means that they are plateauing at a slightly higher level and there is no way they can beat their bigger competition like Compuserve. They need to expand into new areas or they will go into a decline that will put them out of business. [[spoiler: After a TimeSkip to 1990, we find out that Mutiny shut down sometime in 1988. It was unable to compete and the investors shut it down rather than hemorrhage more money.]]
** If you are buying computer equipment at night from the back of some guy's van for a fraction of their retail cost, don't be surprised when the computer parts turn out to be counterfeit.
** Donna and Cameron ignoring Ryan Ray, clearly one of the smarter people at Mutiny, and not cracking down on harrassment from his co-workers in addition, is coming back to bite them as Ryan purposely decides to change jobs and work for Joe [=MacMillan=]'s company.
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* PersonalHateBeforeCommonGoals: In season 3, Cameron and Donna allow their game company and their relationship to fall apart because neither of them can stand the other's vision for how to run the company. At the end of season 4, after competing with each other to put out the best search engine (and ultimately losing to Yahoo!), they finally reconcile.
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* PrizedPossessionGiveaway: Bos gives away his prized Mustang to his estranged son as a wedding present.
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** In "Landfall", Gordon is trying to find Toys/CabbagePatchKids dolls, a toy whose popularity was ''huge'' in the early 1980s, for his two daughters as the remnants of Hurricane Alicia make their way from Houston to Dallas. After [[PigInAPoke paying $80 for a rock]] when a stranger claims he was selling a Cabbage Patch Kids doll, Gordon [[FiveFingerDiscount resorts to breaking into a toy store front window and stealing two dolls from a display]].
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** In "Landfall", Gordon is trying to find Toys/CabbagePatchKids dolls, a toy whose popularity was ''huge'' in the early 1980s, for his two daughters as the remnants of Hurricane Alicia make their way from Houston to Dallas. After [[PigInAPoke paying $80 for a rock]] rock when a stranger claims he was selling a Cabbage Patch Kids doll, Gordon [[FiveFingerDiscount resorts to breaking into a toy store front window and stealing two dolls from a display]].
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** In the Season 4 opener, teens are hooked on ''VideoGame/MortalKombat''.
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** In the Season 4 opener, teens are hooked on ''VideoGame/MortalKombat''.''Franchise/MortalKombat''.
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* StrongFamilyResemblance: Played with. Gordon and Joe both comment that the woman in the Apple '1984' ad "looks like Cameron". But anyone who has watched the actual "1984" ad from Apple knows that the woman in it has decidedly different bodily features.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: In season 4, the [[spoiler:recently divorced]] Donna has become more confident, aggressive and merciless. Toward the end of the season, she says that her collage-age self would be eaten alive by the woman she is now. Gordon counters that she's not as mean as she thinks she is, nor was she as innocent as she remembers.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: In season 4, the [[spoiler:recently divorced]] Donna has become more confident, aggressive and merciless. Toward the end of the season, she says that her collage-age college-age self would be eaten alive by the woman she is now. Gordon counters that she's not as mean as she thinks she is, nor was she as innocent as she remembers.
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* AffluentAscetic: Cameron is never interested in worldly possessions or luxury. Even after getting a job at Cardiff at a good wage, she lives in her office until she has to be told to get her own place. At Mutiny, she lives at the dilapidated hacker den out of which the company is run and wears clothes that are literally falling apart. After returning from Japan as as a famous game designer, she decides to buy an empty field and live out of a trailer that her boyfriend barely fits inside.
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* AffluentAscetic: Cameron is never interested in worldly possessions or luxury. Even after getting a job at Cardiff at a good wage, she lives in her office until she has to be told to get her own place. At Mutiny, she lives at the dilapidated hacker den out of which the company is run and wears clothes that are literally falling apart. After returning from Japan as as a famous game designer, she decides to buy an empty field and live out of a trailer that her boyfriend barely fits inside.
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* AffluentAscetic: Cameron is never interested in worldly possessions or luxury. Even after getting a job at Cardiff at a good wage, she lives in her office until she has to be told to get her own place. At Mutiny, she lives at the dilapidated hacker den out of which the company is run and wears clothes that are literally falling apart. After returning from Japan as as a famous game designer, she decides to buy an empty field and live out of a trailer that her boyfriend barely fits inside.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** The show portrays Cameron (and to some extent, Donna) as basically the only female computer programmer, presumably to make her appear special, but actually women graduates in computer science were at an all-time [[http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding high]] in the early-to-mid '80s.
** The [[VideoGame/ColossalCave Adventure game]] was popular among CS students in the late '70s. It strains credibility that the 'code monkeys', aside from Lev, Yo-Yo and the rest of the Mutiny coders, weren't already familiar with it.
** The show portrays Cameron (and to some extent, Donna) as basically the only female computer programmer, presumably to make her appear special, but actually women graduates in computer science were at an all-time [[http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding high]] in the early-to-mid '80s.
** The [[VideoGame/ColossalCave Adventure game]] was popular among CS students in the late '70s. It strains credibility that the 'code monkeys', aside from Lev, Yo-Yo and the rest of the Mutiny coders, weren't already familiar with it.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** The show portrays Cameron (and to some extent, Donna) as basically the only female computer programmer, presumably to make her appear special, but actually women graduates in computer science were at an all-time [[http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding high]] in the early-to-mid '80s.
**ArtisticLicenseHistory: The [[VideoGame/ColossalCave Adventure game]] was popular among CS students in the late '70s. It strains credibility that the 'code monkeys', aside from Lev, Yo-Yo and the rest of the Mutiny coders, weren't already familiar with it.
** The show portrays Cameron (and to some extent, Donna) as basically the only female computer programmer, presumably to make her appear special, but actually women graduates in computer science were at an all-time [[http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding high]] in the early-to-mid '80s.
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* TheAlcoholic: The first time we see Gordon Clark, he's being bailed out of the drunk tank.
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* TheAlcoholic: The first time we see Gordon Clark, he's being bailed out of In season 4, Donna starts to become a LadyDrunk due to the drunk tank.stress of her job. She eventually gets a DUI and is forced into AA. Thereafter, she politely declines all offers of alcohol.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: In season 4, the [[spoiler:recently divorced]] Donna has become more confident, aggressive and merciless. Toward the end of the season, she says that her collage-age self would be eaten alive by the woman she is now. Gordon counters that she's not as mean as she thinks she is, nor was she as innocent as she remembers.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Although Joe's career in season 3 is based on John [=McAfee=], he affects a "zen visionary" persona, heads a large company, and tends to wear black shirts and wireframe glasses, all of which make him strongly reminiscent of Steve Jobs. Because Steve Jobs exists in this world, it seems intentional on his part.
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* KickedUpstairs: In Season 3, the board at [=MacMillan=] Utility [[spoiler: Strip Joe of his authority after he essentially tries to turn the company into an early ISP.]]
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* KickedUpstairs: In Season 3, the board at [=MacMillan=] Utility [[spoiler: Strip [[spoiler:strip Joe of his authority after he essentially tries to turn the company into an early ISP.]]
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* MortonsFork: Joe puts Cardiff Electric into this situation. If they fire Joe and Gordon, it will be seen as an admission of guilt and IBM will sue them into bankruptcy. If they do not fire them and instead claim that they are legitimately building an IBM clone, they will have to invest millions into the technology and then try to compete against a pissed-off IBM, which will most likely bankrupt the company. Their only sliver of hope is that Joe is right and their new computer will be able to successfully compete with IBM's PC. Fortuantely, Joe's gamble pays off where the Giant turns enough profit for Nathan Cardiff to cede control of the company to Joe and Gordon.
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* MortonsFork: Joe puts Cardiff Electric into this situation. If they fire Joe and Gordon, it will be seen as an admission of guilt and IBM will sue them into bankruptcy. If they do not fire them and instead claim that they are legitimately building an IBM clone, they will have to invest millions into the technology and then try to compete against a pissed-off IBM, which will most likely bankrupt the company. Their only sliver of hope is that Joe is right and their new computer will be able to successfully compete with IBM's PC. Fortuantely, Fortunately, Joe's gamble pays off where the Giant turns enough profit for Nathan Cardiff to cede control of the company to Joe and Gordon.
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* NoSell: When meeting with potential investor Louise "[=LouLu=]" Lutherford, Joe finds her offer ludicrously low and hates everything about her. He gives her a highly insulting ReasonYouSuckSpeech in order to wreck the business deal. However, [=LouLu=] simply ignores Joe and instead addresses John Bosworth who she knows has the actual power to close the deal. Nathan Cardiff later lampshades the fact that she has been called much worse and she never lets insults interfere with a business deal. Joe still manages to sink the deal by [[spoiler: making out with her boyfriend]] which actually gets under [=LouLu=]'s skin.
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* NoSell: When meeting with potential investor Louise "[=LouLu=]" Lutherford, Joe finds her offer ludicrously low and hates everything about her. He gives her a highly insulting ReasonYouSuckSpeech in order to wreck the business deal. However, [=LouLu=] simply ignores Joe and instead addresses John Bosworth who she knows has the actual power to close the deal. Nathan Cardiff later lampshades the fact that she has been called much worse and she never lets insults interfere with a business deal. Joe still manages to sink the deal by [[spoiler: making out with her boyfriend]] boyfriend]], which actually gets under [=LouLu=]'s skin.
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* NothingButHits: Played with. While the soundtrack may use well known artists of the late '60s to early '80s, they don't always use the most well known songs.
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* NothingButHits: Played with. While the The soundtrack may use well known artists of is used to denote the late '60s to early '80s, they don't time period, though the songs aren't always use the most well known songs.famous of the era.
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* PeripheryDemographic: InUniverse, Donna notices that a lot of Mutiny's customers are using the chat feature long after their games have finished. In season 3 they notice that many of their chat users are using the chat rooms to arrange trades of computer equipment and various memorabilia.
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** Season 4 takes place in 1994, when Yahoo debuts in the navigation bar of Netscape.
* PeripheryDemographic: InUniverse, Donna notices that a lot of Mutiny's customers are using the chat feature long after their games have finished. In season3 3, they notice that many of their chat users are using the chat rooms to arrange trades of computer equipment and various memorabilia.
* PeripheryDemographic: InUniverse, Donna notices that a lot of Mutiny's customers are using the chat feature long after their games have finished. In season
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** In "Landfall", Gordon is trying to find Toys/CabbagePatchKids dolls, a toy whose popularity was ''[[{{Understatement}} huge]]'' in the early 1980s, for his two daughters as the remnants of Hurricane Alicia make their way from Houston to Dallas. After [[PigInAPoke paying $80 for a rock]] when a stranger claims he was selling a Cabbage Patch Kids doll, Gordon [[FiveFingerDiscount resorts to breaking into a toy store front window and stealing two dolls from a display]].
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** In "Landfall", Gordon is trying to find Toys/CabbagePatchKids dolls, a toy whose popularity was ''[[{{Understatement}} huge]]'' ''huge'' in the early 1980s, for his two daughters as the remnants of Hurricane Alicia make their way from Houston to Dallas. After [[PigInAPoke paying $80 for a rock]] when a stranger claims he was selling a Cabbage Patch Kids doll, Gordon [[FiveFingerDiscount resorts to breaking into a toy store front window and stealing two dolls from a display]].
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* TechnicianVersusPerformer: Frequently brought up. Gordon and Cameron are tech-heads, while Joe and Donna are primarily concerned with business application. Joe in particular is all about vision and salesmanship, and the other three criticize him for not knowing all that much about technology. He eventually studies hard to catch up, but [[spoiler:in the end he becomes a humanities professor, revealing that his heart was never in tech]].
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** In season 4, the fight between Rover and Comet is a precursor to the fight between Google and Yahoo. Rover focuses on intelligent search results and a streamlined presentation to get users to their destination quickly. Comet focuses on categorization and becoming a hub for users, like Yahoo.
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** Gordon originally suggested calling the new Cardiff PC the Giant as a joke, naming it after the infamous 1869 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Giant Cardiff Giant]] hoax. Joe then [[CompletelyMissingThePoint unwittingly accepts]] Gordon's suggestion.
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** Gordon originally suggested calling the new Cardiff PC the Giant as a joke, naming it after the infamous 1869 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Giant Cardiff Giant]] hoax. Joe then [[CompletelyMissingThePoint [[ComicallyMissingThePoint unwittingly accepts]] Gordon's suggestion.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Gordon is dead. Joe discovers that Yahoo! is the default search engine in the brand-new Netscape browser, and shuts down Comet while he and Cameron break up. Bosworth has a clean bill of health and many years ahead of him to spend with Diane. Donna becomes the head of the firm, and wants to work with Cameron again. Joanie is travelling the world on a break year before college and Haley is finally out as a lesbian to a supportive mother/surrogate family and is working towards going to college to be a computer scientist while moving on from being rejected by her crush. Joe becomes a humanities professor and finally seems happy.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Gordon is dead. Joe discovers that Yahoo! is the default search engine in the brand-new Netscape browser, and shuts down Comet while he and Cameron break up. Bosworth has a clean bill of health and many years ahead of him to spend with Diane. Donna becomes the head of the firm, firm and wants to work with Cameron again. Joanie is travelling the world on starting to mellow out while while taking a break year before college and college. Haley is finally seems to have gained some perspective and peace as she navigates through all her emotional challenges, and her mother has figured out as that she's a lesbian to a supportive mother/surrogate family and is working towards going to college to be a computer scientist while moving on from being rejected by her crush.lesbian. Joe becomes a humanities professor and finally seems happy.]]
* FireForgedFriends: Pretty much the whole cast is at each other's throats a lot of the time, but they all ultimately care deeply about each other.
* ScarsAreForever: A tattoo example. In a very early episode, Cameron passes out at a punk party and wakes up to a man trying to tattoo the logo of Music/BlackFlag onto her upper arm. He only gets the outline of the first rectangle done before she pulls away. However, whenever Cameron's upper arm is visible throughout the rest of the series, that black rectangle is still there.
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** The Season 3 finale skips ahead to the fall of 1990.
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* TooUnhappyToBeHungry: In "Goodwill", Joe spends a day in a deep depression over [[spoiler:Gordon's death]], and snaps at Bos when the latter tries to offer him some food.
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* TooUnhappyToBeHungry: In "Goodwill", Joe spends a day in a deep depression over [[spoiler:Gordon's death]], and snaps at Bos when the latter tries to offer him some food. Bos has to trick him into tasting the spice level of some chili to get him to eat.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Cameron meets with one of the Mutiny users to trade some game peripherals and tells him that she is sorry about the death of the guy's son. He thanks her for her concern but then realizes that he never told her about it. He only discussed it in private chat with other members of a bereavement chat group. Cameron has been reading the private chats of Mutiny users and the guy is extremely angry when he realizes what has happened.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Cameron meets with one of the Mutiny users to trade some game peripherals and tells him that she is sorry about the death of the guy's son. He thanks her for her concern but then realizes that he never told her about it. He only discussed it in private chat with other members of a bereavement chat group. Cameron has been reading the private chats of Mutiny users and the guy is extremely angry when he realizes what has happened.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Cameron meets with one of IntergenerationalFriendship: Joe and Haley develop a close bond during their time at Comet. He's notably the Mutiny users first person to trade figure out that she's gay. However, after Haley is going through some game peripherals and rough times, she spitefully tells Joe that it's weird for him to treat her like a friend when she's only a teenager. In the end, however, [[spoiler:Joe writes her a very warm letter that she appreciates. Hers is sorry about one of two photographs on Joe's desk in the death of the guy's son. He thanks her for her concern but then realizes that he never told her about it. He only discussed it in private chat with other members of a bereavement chat group. Cameron has been reading the private chats of Mutiny users and the guy is extremely angry when he realizes what has happened.final episode]].
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** In season 4, Joe and Gordon's Internet Service Provider company has to face off against America Online which is aggressively expanding into their territory. Later, it becomes Joe's and Gordon's new independent search engine Comet vs Donna's VC-backed Rover. ]
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** In season 4, Joe and Gordon's Internet Service Provider company has to face off against America Online which is aggressively expanding into their territory. Later, it becomes Joe's and Gordon's new independent search engine Comet vs Donna's VC-backed Rover. ]]]
* DeathByIrony: A corporate example. Donna takes a rather limited search algorithm for medical data and turns it into Rover, a Google-like internet search engine. When [[spoiler:Yahoo emerges on the market]], however, she's forced to sell it for scrap to a company who wants to use it to search their medical data. Donna finds this grimly hysterical.
* DeathByIrony: A corporate example. Donna takes a rather limited search algorithm for medical data and turns it into Rover, a Google-like internet search engine. When [[spoiler:Yahoo emerges on the market]], however, she's forced to sell it for scrap to a company who wants to use it to search their medical data. Donna finds this grimly hysterical.
* ForegoneConclusion: While the cast are always on the bleeding edge of the digital revolution, we know that none of their enterprises will become major players without pushing the show into a AlternateHistory. This is perhaps most obvious in the final season, when Joe and Gordon chart a very similar path for Comet as Yahoo would eventually take, and we know how that turned out for Yahoo. Gordon is particularly interested in optimizing their site for Netscape, a browser that was infamous killed by Internet Explorer. Even Donna's Google-like Rover dies on the vine when when [[spoiler:the real Yahoo shows up and seizes control of the early search market]].
* ImagineSpot: When Donna and Cameron playfully "recall" their company Phoenix, a corporate neon sign materializes above their heads. When their flight of fancy ends with the death of the company, the sign sputters, shuts off, and vanishes.
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** When Cameron [[InsultBackfire insults]] Donna by calling her "somebody's mother", Donna states that she is indeed the mother of two girls and tells Cameron that she looks like she needs a mother.
** Nathan Cardiff gives the ultimate one to Joe [[spoiler:by tearing up his dividend check]].
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** When Cameron [[InsultBackfire insults]] Donna by calling her "somebody's mother", Donna states notes how ugly and clunky the first generation of Yahoo is. The only reason they win the browser war (to that she point) is indeed the mother of two girls and tells Cameron that she looks like she needs a mother.
** Nathan Cardiff gives the ultimate one to Joe [[spoiler:by tearing up his dividend check]].because they finagled their way into Netscape's nav bar.
** Nathan Cardiff gives the ultimate one to Joe [[spoiler:by tearing up his dividend check]].
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* BaitAndSwitch: In the final episode, Cameron learns that Joe has returned home to the city where IBM is headquartered. When we see him, he's bought a Porsche, wears a slick suit, and carries a briefcase, implying that he's returned to his previous life as an IBM executive. In reality, he's [[spoiler:become a college humanities professor]].
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** We don't hear the results of Joe's [[spoiler:HIV antibody test]]. After receiving the news, he robotically stumbles to his patio and stares stoically out at the view until he finally breaks into a huge grin, revealing that it was actually good news.
** In the final episode, Cameron learns that Joe has returned home to the city where IBM is headquartered. When we see him, he's bought a Porsche, wears a slick suit, and carries a briefcase, implying that he's returned to his previous life as an IBM executive. In reality, he's [[spoiler:become a college humanities professor]].
** We don't hear the results of Joe's [[spoiler:HIV antibody test]]. After receiving the news, he robotically stumbles to his patio and stares stoically out at the view until he finally breaks into a huge grin, revealing that it was actually good news.
** In the final episode, Cameron learns that Joe has returned home to the city where IBM is headquartered. When we see him, he's bought a Porsche, wears a slick suit, and carries a briefcase, implying that he's returned to his previous life as an IBM executive. In reality, he's [[spoiler:become a college humanities professor]].
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* CoolCar: Joe's Porsche 944 at the beginning of the series which is otherwise rife with car-"casting" choices that are a bit odd, possibly because there aren't many restored K-Cars, Chevettes and other BoringButPractical 1980s cars to be had.
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* CoolCar: Joe's Porsche 944 at the beginning of the series series, which is otherwise rife with car-"casting" choices that are a bit odd, possibly because there aren't many restored K-Cars, Chevettes and other BoringButPractical 1980s cars he eventually has to be had.sell. In the final episode, he's bought another Porsche, [[BaitAndSwitch teasing]] a return to his former self.
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: References are made to the events that caused Joe to leave IBM but Joe avoids the topic and the IBM executives seem to be saving that information as future ammunition to use against him. All we know that as a result, a 2 million dollar data center was destroyed and Joe dropped off the radar so completely that his former bosses thought he might have gone and killed himself. Hunt, Donna's former boss, shines a little light on the mystery. Apparently, Joe got in a fight with his father and in retaliation opened a water main into the data center.
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: References are made to the events that caused Joe to leave IBM IBM, but Joe avoids the topic and the IBM executives seem to be saving that information as future ammunition to use against him. All we know that as a result, a 2 million dollar data center was destroyed and Joe dropped off the radar so completely that his former bosses thought he might have gone and killed himself. Hunt, Donna's former boss, shines a little light on the mystery. Apparently, Joe got in a fight with his father and in retaliation opened a water main into the data center.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In the season 1 episode "Adventure", when Cameron finds out that she's being demoted to remedial assignments Lev retorts by saying "Welcome to the short bus" [[note]] a dated term towards special education students [[/note]], this being the 1980s it was common to make such jokes. These days with people having more political correctness a person would be offended at remarks about remedial students.
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** One of Joe's gay ex-lovers reveals that he is sick. While the disease is not named, given Joe's reaction, it is clear that it is AIDS. In an aversion, [[spoiler:in San Francisco Joe gets a call about his HIV antibody test, but it's not made clear if the results were positive or negative, though his happy reaction suggests the latter.]]
** Joe has a meeting with the head of General Atomics to apologize for his son getting doing cocaine at one of Joe's lavish parties before getting into a car wreck. The man eventually mentions that the San Francisco engineers have "soft handshakes" (i.e., they're gay) and that he hopes the "special flu" (HIV) running around will "take care of them". Joe is less than pleased.
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** One of Joe's gay ex-lovers reveals that he is sick. While the disease is not named, given Joe's reaction, it is clear that it is AIDS. In an aversion, [[spoiler:in San Francisco Joe gets a call about his HIV antibody test, but it's not made clear if the results were positive or negative, though his happy reaction suggests the latter.]]
** Joe has a meeting with the head of General Atomics to apologize for his son getting doing cocaine at one of Joe's lavish parties before getting into a car wreck. The man eventually mentions that the San Francisco engineers have "soft handshakes" (i.e., they're gay) and that he hopes the "special flu" (HIV) running around will "take care of them". Joe is less than pleased.
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** In the season 1 episode "Adventure", when Cameron finds out that she's being demoted to remedial assignments Lev retorts by saying "Welcome to the shortbus" [[note]] bus," a dated term towards special education students [[/note]], this students. This being the 1980s 1980s, it was common to make such jokes. These days with people having more political correctness a person would be offended at remarks about remedial students.
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** One of Joe's gay ex-lovers reveals that he is sick. While Joe has to live as a closeted bisexual man in the disease is not named, given Joe's reaction, it is clear that it is AIDS. In an aversion, [[spoiler:in San Francisco Joe gets a call 1980s due to homophobia. He lashes out at one business partner who feels comfortable making sadistic and homophobic jokes about his HIV antibody test, but it's not made clear if AIDS.
** Haley is a closeted lesbian in theresults were positive or negative, mid-90s, though his happy reaction the fact that [[spoiler:her mother and Cameron seem to have no problem with it suggests the latter.]]
**that she probably won't have difficulty coming out to her family]].
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Joe has a meeting with the head of General Atomics to apologize for his son getting doing cocaine at one of Joe's lavish parties before getting into a car wreck. The man eventually mentions that the San Francisco engineers have "soft handshakes" (i.e., they're gay) and that he hopes the "special flu" (HIV) running around will "take care of them". Joe is less than pleased. Later, one of Joe's gay ex-lovers reveals that he is sick, and Joe takes it very seriously. The trope is finally averted when Joe takes an HIV antibody test.
** In the season 1 episode "Adventure", when Cameron finds out that she's being demoted to remedial assignments Lev retorts by saying "Welcome to the short
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* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Joe has a meeting with the head of General Atomics to apologize for his son getting doing cocaine at one of Joe's lavish parties before getting into a car wreck. The man eventually mentions that the San Francisco engineers have "soft handshakes" (i.e., they're gay) and that he hopes the "special flu" (HIV) running around will "take care of them". Joe is less than pleased. Later, one of Joe's gay ex-lovers reveals that he is sick, and Joe takes it very seriously. The trope is finally averted when Joe takes an HIV antibody test.
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* DyingDream: [[spoiler: In "Who Needs a Guy", Gordon hallucinates that he's back with Donna and Joanie as a baby before dying.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. At the start of Season 1, Gordon started from the bottom at Cardiff Electric as a low level sales engineer, struggled with building the Giant and has risen to the top by the end. After the success of the Giant, however, Gordon is unsure of how to move forward [[spoiler:after Joe abruptly leaves the company]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. At the start of Season 1, Gordon started from the bottom at Cardiff Electric as a low level sales engineer, struggled with building the Giant and has risen to the top by the end. After the success of the Giant, however, Gordon is unsure of how to move forward [[spoiler:after Joe abruptly leaves the company]].
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* DyingDream: [[spoiler: In "Who Needs a Guy", Gordon hallucinates that he's watching his family go back with in time, first seeing Donna and Joanie at her current age, then a younger Donna with their two daughters as young children, then Donna as a young mother holding baby before dying.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. At the start of Season 1, Gordon started from the bottom at Cardiff Electric as a low level sales engineer, struggled with building the Giant and has risen to the top by the end. After the success of the Giant, however, Gordon is unsure of how to move forward [[spoiler:after Joe abruptly leaves the company]].Joanie. And then he dies]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. At the start of Season 1, Gordon started from the bottom at Cardiff Electric as a low level sales engineer, struggled with building the Giant and has risen to the top by the end. After the success of the Giant, however, Gordon is unsure of how to move forward [[spoiler:after Joe abruptly leaves the company]].
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* TheFellowshipHasEnded: The first season ends with Cameron starting her own company and Joe torching the first shipment of Giants before taking off.
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* GamerChick: Cameron gets kicked out of a tavern after hogging a ''VideoGame/{{Centipede}}'' arcade machine for over an hour and using a trick quarter to avoid paying. Later, Cameron uses a text-based adventure game to weed out excess programmers.
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* HistoricalInJoke: Gordon jokes that his new digital watch is so advanced he almost expects he could check the weather on it, something that's possibly on any modern smartwatch.
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* RunningGag: After the show moves to California, a lot of jokes are made at the expense of the native Texans' terror over California earthquakes.
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* TheUnreveal: In her very last scene, Donna glances around the diner where she's paying her bill and has a EurekaMoment. She rushes outside to tell Cameron that she's just had her next big tech idea... but the scene cuts away before she says what it is.
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** While discussing the World Wide Web, Gordon calls the [=NeXTcube=], the then-cutting edge computer which CERN developed the first web browser on, expensive and impractical, especially as the IBM PC-compatible platform[[note]]which would evolve into the "Wintel" platform by 1993[[/note]], while far less powerful compared to the [=NeXTcube=], was [[BoringButPractical far more prevalent and becoming increasingly more inexpensive]].
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** While discussing the World Wide Web, Gordon calls the [=NeXTcube=], the then-cutting edge then-cutting-edge computer which CERN developed the first web browser on, expensive and impractical, especially as the IBM PC-compatible platform[[note]]which would evolve into the "Wintel" platform by 1993[[/note]], while far less powerful compared to the [=NeXTcube=], was [[BoringButPractical far more prevalent and becoming increasingly more inexpensive]].
* BaitAndSwitch: In the final episode, Cameron learns that Joe has returned home to the city where IBM is headquartered. When we see him, he's bought a Porsche, wears a slick suit, and carries a briefcase, implying that he's returned to his previous life as an IBM executive. In reality, he's [[spoiler:become a college humanities professor]].
* BookEnds: In the first and final and final scene, Joe addresses a college classroom by saying, "Let me start by asking a question."
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** In the final episode, Haley listens to one of the calming cassette tapes that Gordon made for himself.
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** Haley's room includes posters of Music/TheyMightBeGiants, ''Film/DazedAndConfused'', and a Creator/GildaRadner comedy special.
** The [[spoiler:last]] book that Gordon reads is ''[[Literature/LonesomeDove The Streets of Laredo]]''. Joe has it in his office in the final scene.
** The [[spoiler:last]] book that Gordon reads is ''[[Literature/LonesomeDove The Streets of Laredo]]''. Joe has it in his office in the final scene.
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** Tom Rendon comes to a meeting among Cameron, Gordon, Donna and Joe, and is the naysayer of the meeting, insisting that open-source software will never be viable and that the potential of the Internet to help unleash the potential of such software is wildly overstated. [[spoiler:It's hinted that he's partly being purposely truculent because he suspects Joe and Cameron of having had an affair.]]
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** Tom Rendon comes to a meeting among Cameron, Gordon, Donna and Joe, and is the naysayer of the meeting, insisting that open-source open source software[[note]]The term would only be applied to software toward the end of the decade, even though the GNU Project was well-known among computer people. Such software was known at the time as "free software" or "freeware."[[/note]] will never be viable and that the potential of the Internet to help unleash the potential of such software is wildly overstated. [[spoiler:It's hinted that he's partly being purposely truculent because he suspects Joe and Cameron of having had an affair.]]
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* LensFlare: Used in one Season 4 scene to indicate [[spoiler: Gordon's dying visions]].
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** In season 4, Joe and Gordon's Internet Service Provider company has to face off against America Online which is aggressively expanding into their territory. Later, it becomes Joe's and Gordon's new independent search engine Comet vs Donna's VC-backed Rover.
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** In season 4, Joe and Gordon's Internet Service Provider company has to face off against America Online which is aggressively expanding into their territory. Later, it becomes Joe's and Gordon's new independent search engine Comet vs Donna's VC-backed Rover. ]
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In the season 1 episode "Adventure", when Cameron finds out that she's being demoted to remedial assignments Lev retorts by saying "Welcome to the short bus" [[note]] a dated term towards special education students [[/note]], this being the 1980s it was common to make such jokes. These days with people having more political correctness a person would be offended at remarks about remedial students.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In the season 1 episode "Adventure", when Cameron finds out that she's being demoted to remedial assignments Lev retorts by saying "Welcome to the short bus" [[note]] a dated term towards special education students [[/note]], this being the 1980s it was common to make such jokes. These days with people having more political correctness a person would be offended at remarks about remedial students.
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* AmicableExes: [[spoiler:Gordon and Donna still seem to care for each other despite being divorced in the Season 3 finale. Donna is devastasted by Gordon's death in Season 4.]]
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* AmicableExes: [[spoiler:Gordon and Donna still seem to care for each other despite being divorced in the Season 3 finale. Gordon bails Donna out from the drunk tank, and Donna is devastasted devastated by Gordon's death in Season 4.]]
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* WackyStartupWorkplace: The show repeatedly deconstructs the Wacky Startup Workplace.
** In season 2, Mutiny basically has a frat house atmosphere where employees are encouraged to play video games and come up with radical ideas for their own games, but the company is one disaster away from bankruptcy and a significant amount of most of its employees are secretly being underpaid while founder Cameron pockets most of the profits.
** In season 3, Mutiny gets new investors and many of the employees mistakenly believe that this means they can party even harder, but in reality, the investors end up staging a coup, ousting Cameron, and forcing Mutiny to launch an IPO, where it gets eaten alive. Within a year or two, Mutiny is all but dead.
** In season 4, Comet has a considerably smaller dark side, as co-founder Gordon Clark knows that he's dying and just wants to enjoy his final days doing what he loves with similarly-enthusiastic geeks, but after his death, partner Joe MacMillan takes over and runs the company into the ground on a quixotic project (creating a search engine that would be optimized for Netscape, which wasn't publicly available back then.)
** In season 2, Mutiny basically has a frat house atmosphere where employees are encouraged to play video games and come up with radical ideas for their own games, but the company is one disaster away from bankruptcy and a significant amount of most of its employees are secretly being underpaid while founder Cameron pockets most of the profits.
** In season 3, Mutiny gets new investors and many of the employees mistakenly believe that this means they can party even harder, but in reality, the investors end up staging a coup, ousting Cameron, and forcing Mutiny to launch an IPO, where it gets eaten alive. Within a year or two, Mutiny is all but dead.
** In season 4, Comet has a considerably smaller dark side, as co-founder Gordon Clark knows that he's dying and just wants to enjoy his final days doing what he loves with similarly-enthusiastic geeks, but after his death, partner Joe MacMillan takes over and runs the company into the ground on a quixotic project (creating a search engine that would be optimized for Netscape, which wasn't publicly available back then.)
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* TechnologyPorn: As a period piece about the technology industry, there are lots of vintage computers in the show.
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* TechnologyPorn: As a period piece about the technology industry, there are lots of vintage computers in the show. The series is popular with retrocomputing enthusiasts for this reason.
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* BiTheWay: In the pilot, "I/O", Joe has sex with the future BIOS programmer, Cameron (a woman). Then, in "High Plains Hardware", Joe passionately makes out with a potential investor's boyfriend, if only to piss her off because Joe felt the terms of her deal was grossly unfair as she only offered $10 million for a 80% stake in the Cardiff PC project. In "Giant", Joe reveals that he was in a relationship with another man, Simon, a decade before moving to Texas.
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* NeverLiveItDown: InUniverse, Gordon and Donna are still remembered for their failed Symphonic demo at COMDEX.
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