Magical Computer

""Quite exciting, this computer magic.""

Everyone either owns a computer, or uses them as part of a job, or has been at least exposed to them.

Naturally, this gets spiced up for TV land.

As a result, computers on TV often bear only superficial resemblance to their real life counterparts. In fact, they are often just a 21st-century substitute for magic. A Computer Wizard is a literal wizard. Evoking arcane words with their keyboard, they cast spells into the infinite (and physically real) realms of Cyberspace.

For computers which are literally magical see Magitek. See also Clarke's Third Law.

Tropes:

 * AI Is a Crapshoot
 * Beeping Computers
 * Billions of Buttons
 * Contagious AI
 * Computer Equals Monitor
 * Computer Equals Tapedrive
 * Computer Virus
 * The Computer Is Your Friend
 * Cool Code of Source
 * The Cracker
 * Deus Est Machina
 * Destruction Equals Off Switch
 * Dueling Hackers
 * Enhance Button
 * Everything Is Online
 * Everything Sensor
 * Exact Progress Bar
 * Expositron 9000
 * Extreme Graphical Representation
 * Facial Recognition Software
 * Hacked By a Pirate
 * Hacker Cave
 * Hackette
 * Hacking Minigame
 * Have You Tried Rebooting
 * Highly Visible Password
 * Hollywood Hacking
 * Hollywood Web Cam
 * Holographic Terminal
 * Instant AI, Just Add Water
 * Internet
 * It's a Small Net After All
 * Logic Bomb
 * Magical Database
 * Magic Floppy Disk
 * Master Computer
 * Matrix Raining Code
 * Murder.Com
 * Our Graphics Will Suck in The Future
 * Password Slot Machine
 * Piecemeal Funds Transfer
 * Playful Hacker
 * Plug N Play Technology
 * Rapid-Fire Typing
 * Screens Are Cameras
 * Sinister Surveillance
 * Slow-Loading Internet Image
 * Thing-O-Meter
 * Online Alias
 * Viewer-Friendly Interface
 * Wetware Body
 * Zeroes and Ones