The phrase comes from Hackers, the 1995 American thriller about teenage hackers who uncover a corporate conspiracy. In the film the line functions as the group's defiant slogan, closely associated with Dade Murphy and his friends. The movie became a cult favourite for its exaggerated vision of early internet culture, and the shout survived online long after release. Shared as a meme and in remix videos, it is now shorthand for celebrating clever computer skills, beating a system, or joking about stereotypical movie hacking.