Happy forty-fifth birthday - 2001
From
IMDb:
2001: A Space Odyssey
"2001" is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.
And:
Release Date: 6 April 1968 (USA)
Also from IMDb --
a collection of 2001 trivia including the complete text of the sign:
ZERO GRAVITY TOILET PASSENGERS ARE ADVISED TO READ INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USE
Graduated High School in 1969 -- that movie had an incredible impact on us proto-geeks...
Posted by DaveH at April 3, 2013 11:00 PM