Question about the internet on TV?

[Zarn]

Some tv shows aren't using even anything remotely approaching a 'search engine'. If I recall correctly, NCIS was writing "input" directly into a Visual Basic window and getting real-time results without compiling. Good old Independence Day did the same, but mr. Goldblum's character wrote stuff directly into Turbo Pascal. The UI design for Iron Man and Shield were done by a futurist UI designer John Koltai, http://www.johnkoltai.com/IRON-MAN-2-Use...ace-Design

Mission Impossible 'hacked' Pentagon using a (then) beta web browser. Mostly, it's animation and graphical effects, usually enhanced by streaming unfiltered source code in the background - often from *nix systems. I suspect that the 'hacking' background that one of the bad guys in White House Down streamed the source for TCP / IP as his 'leet haxxor' attack.