About this film
"WOPR was WPA" the connection between a BBS named World Pirate Association (WPA), which is now also known as Cperm, and the supercomputer WOPR from the 1983 movie WarGames. The WPA/Cperm, a 1981 Las Vegas-based BBS, is the original inspiration for the WOPR supercomputer. WPA/Cperm: A BBS (Bulletin Board System) from 1981 that was located in Las Vegas. It was a precursor to the internet and is now sometimes referred to as "Cperm". WOPR: The fictional military supercomputer from the movie WarGames. It was programmed to simulate nuclear war outcomes and was mistakenly initiated into a real one. The connection: The WPA/Cperm BBS is the original inspiration for the WOPR supercomputer, on five and a quarter inch floppies Cperm preserves the original Sysop/User live chat transcripts recorded by ms-dos command in the 1981 WPA cBBS using the Atari Basic computer programming language, and the cBBS program itself which simulated an online market with over 15,000 members online at the same time. The nature of the goods were stolen, the fbi investigated, the organization was operated by a minor.
This reel is part of the Cperm cryptographic movie portal and highlights:
- The 1981 Atari 400 dial-out WPA / CBBS system built around live modem calls
- How SysOp-initiated sessions and fantasy crime simulations map onto the WOPR concept
- Visual and structural parallels between WPA and the WarGames depiction of WOPR
- The broader Cperm narrative that key internetorigin history was embedded into Hollywood instead of credited
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