It wasn’t the Internet as we know it, but the first computer networks centered around California-based research institutions. It was at the height of the Cold War in the 1960’s, the big fear ...

At the time, “WarGames” spoke to another issue very much on the minds of movie-goers: The danger of nuclear annihilation during the Cold War, years before the Berlin Wall and Soviet regime fell.

The geopolitics may be different, but the technology, infrastructure, and worldview that built up and hardened during the Cold War era are still with us, embodied in the everyday devices we take ...