So I was only a couple of years older than her in that movie when it came out in 1993 and knew UNIX and I still facepalmed at that line. It's delivered in the silliest way.
I would’ve thought you were the coolest ever, I wasn’t even 10 when it came out and thought computers were super interesting but my parents both couldn’t afford and didn’t have any desire to buy one. School time was limited to at best an hour a week and that was always for a directed activity.
I look at it now as someone in IT and can roll my eyes at the goofiness of it but I fucking loved that scene when I saw it the first time
I like that episode where the Enterprise gets infected by that ancient virus and then in the end the big ' it's so crazy it just might work' plan is to basically just reformat the computer.
This scene cracks me up because I have to assume the entity controlling data at the time was using his full strength in frustration, but the panel doesn't just explode from being punched by Android fists.