Over time, hackers and hacking have been featured more prominently in movies, but Holloywood often gets hacking wrong. Hacking is a relatively new phenomenon, at least as far as the word has grown to mean people who hack into computers. Due to the popularity and availability of personal computers only spiking in the last three decades, along with the introduction of the internet, the idea of using computers to dig up information or access private records has evolved alongside films that portray it.