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[rynoid]

 [SPEC] Copyright 2002

[comadarkvale]

Did everyone decide on 1979? I thought there was still debate?

[rynoid]

PDP-11 Simulator

[comadarkvale]

You could be correct 9m not sure.I thought there was still debate.Icould be wrong.But yes i follow you on the rest.

[Melodyman]

While we dont know the year the film is set in, we assume from the words in the trailer that this accident in 1979 is the catalyst that starts the 'monster on the loose' .. when this happens, at the beginning, middle or even near the end, is something that we will just have to wait and see.. But it seems highly doubtful that if Thingy escaped in 1979 that it would take 23 years before the story could be told.. unless the whole film is done in flashback mode...
Too soon to tell..

[vapor]

I think that the only real significance of 2002 is that we can safely assume that the desktop which we are viewing is in our present time (or at least a time in the recent past). The remote view software was copyrighted in 2002 but it could easily be a present day computer using software created in 2002.

For an example, try opening some of the programs installed on your computer and look at the splash screen. You will likely see copyright dates from years past. On my system, I have Roxio installed and it's splash screen says copyright 1998-2006.

So the date I think is only significant in the sense that it places the desktop in the modern era.