Digital rain

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Invention

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Digital rain, or Matrix code, is the visual effect of vertically falling green characters popularized by The Matrix. The image is a way of representing the activity of the simulated reality environment of the Matrix on screen by kinetic typography.

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