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00:00:50Chairs.
00:00:58( electricity crackles )
00:01:00( footsteps approach )
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00:01:39Hello?
00:01:44- Hey. - Hi!
00:01:46Am I early? I thought we said 9:00.
00:01:48Uh, no, yeah. Yeah, 9:00.
00:01:52She here yet?
00:01:54Uh, I know her plane landed, so... as long as she's on it.
00:01:59( chuckles ) The drive okay?
00:02:01Yeah, yeah. It's the weekend, plus the holiday, so...
00:02:05- Oh, right. - Yeah, there was no traffic.
00:02:08- What's M-NET? - Oh, uh...
00:02:13Mutiny's last-ditch rebranding effort.
00:02:15Tried to stop the bleeding, but, you know, still--
00:02:18Bled.
00:02:23Anyway, my VC firm held onto the lease just in case we needed a raw space for some tadpole investment.
00:02:30( squeaking )
00:02:32It's pretty raw.
00:02:33Yeah, well, the building was in shambles when we moved in four years ago.
00:02:37I'm sure last year's quake didn't help.
00:02:39Oh, God, that was crazy.
00:02:41What?
00:02:43- The earthquake. - Oh, yeah.
00:02:45- Where were you? - Work.
00:02:50- How about you? - Work.
00:02:53( chuckles )
00:02:55How come you wanted to meet here?
00:02:58Oh, I didn't.
00:03:00Cameron did. Who knows? Maybe... she wanted to see it again.
00:03:06Mm-hmm.
00:03:10By the way, I--
00:03:13I didn't mean to invite Gordon without talking to you.
00:03:16- No, no, it's fine. - But I--
00:03:18I just read the paper and I thought it was something phenomenal, and he's still running the regional network we built, so it was a no-brainer.
00:03:26Makes perfect sense.
00:03:28I'm so sorry about that.
00:03:30No, really, it's fine. I'm glad he's coming.
00:03:32No, I-- the divorce.
00:03:36Oh. Right.
00:03:38( stammering ) That the two of you...
00:03:40- Yeah. - ...got a divorce.
00:03:46Anyway...
00:03:49- I really appreciate it. - It's no problem.
00:03:51I mean, it's just a couple of days for us to see if there's even a "there" there.
00:03:56Yeah, of course. ( chuckles )
00:03:58But... I'm excited.
00:04:02I'm excited, too.
00:04:04I'm really excited. I--
00:04:07Hey, sorry I'm late.
00:04:09Is Cameron here?
00:04:13Hey!
00:04:14Hey!
00:04:16How long has it been? What was that, April?
00:04:20Yeah, it was actually two Aprils ago.
00:04:22- Oh, jeez, it's been that long? - Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:25- Well, you look good. - So do you.
00:04:28No, I mean it, you look-- you look good.
00:04:32Thank you.
00:04:34Hey, can I, uh...
00:04:37( whispering ) Can you give us a sec?
00:04:39Oh, of course. Absolutely. Ahem.
00:04:41Take all the time you...
00:04:44- Gordon: Um, can I...? - Donna: Yeah.
00:04:47What's up?
00:04:50Hey, uh, you're okay that I'm here, right?
00:04:54I just thought it was an interesting concept, given everything that I've been working on.
00:04:58And, you know, I haven't seen Cameron in years.
00:05:01But look, I don't-- this is your thing, okay?
00:05:03I don't want to get in the way. I don't want to interfere.
00:05:05Gordon, it's fine. I'm glad you're here.
00:05:09Him? I'm not so sure.
00:05:12Gordon: Yeah, I don't know.
00:05:13Part of the reason we've been losing touch is...
00:05:16Well, you should have seen him the last time I did.
00:05:35( sighs )
00:05:47Hey, Joe.
00:05:54Glad you're here.
00:06:01( sighs )
00:06:02( theme music playing )
00:06:33Okay, let's just hold off for a second on trying to talk about what the World Wide Web is and let's focus on what it could do.
00:06:39Okay, so, here's some context.
00:06:42Let's say these are the big boys, the walled gardens we're all familiar with.
00:06:48You've got your Prodigy, CompuServe, your America Online--
00:06:51America Online.
00:06:52What kind of name is that, anyways?
00:06:54It sounds like a Neil Diamond song.
00:06:55♪ We're coming to America... Online! ♪
00:07:00♪ We're com-- ♪
00:07:01Okay, and then we've got NSFNET.
00:07:04Now, what Berners-Lee is proposing in this paper is an application that could run on this network of networks.
00:07:10And now, well, NSFNET isn't for commercial use yet, and it isn't, you know, sexy at all--
00:07:15Hey, hey, come on. NSFNET's dripping with sex.
00:07:19The size and scope of that would be formidable.
00:07:22Still, it's completely separate from the walled gardens, where all the real money is.
00:07:26Right now, unifying all these networks is essentially impossible.
00:07:29There's different software, different protocols, different operating system on different hardware.
00:07:34But if something like the World Wide Web expands, what it ultimately could do... is this, right?
00:07:45Well, no, not really.
00:07:46No.
00:07:48Sorry, I know I wasn't exactly invited.
00:07:50May I?
00:07:54Thanks.
00:07:55Okay, uh... if I'm understanding this correctly, an implementation would somehow take these massive online networks and do this.
00:08:10No, no, you've got it backwards.
00:08:13Can you give me the thing?
00:08:17Good.
00:08:20Oh.
00:08:23It's this, isn't it?
00:08:26Remember, the World Wide Web and NSFNET, or the Internet, or whatever you want to call it, are two different things.
00:08:33The Web runs on top of the Internet.
00:08:37It unifies everything. It makes it one network.
00:08:40And that's the incredible potential behind something like this.
00:08:43Right now the online world is the Tower of Babel.
00:08:47This is the Rosetta Stone.
00:08:48And it's running on state-of-the-art NeXT hardware and software.
00:08:52( stammering ) That's my biggest problem.
00:08:54NeXTSTEP is not a problem; it's perfect.
00:08:56Okay, yeah, but I run a network that's not just on a whiteboard.
00:08:58All right, here we go.
00:08:59The NeXT is a state-of-the-art system.
00:09:02Designed by a disgraced megalomaniac who loves form over function.
00:09:05No wonder you love the NeXT. Look, if we're talking about a network that lives exclusively on a ridiculously overpriced machine that doesn't really play nice with anything else in the technological landscape, what we're really looking at...
00:09:17Oh. Well, please...
00:09:19- Is this. - ...be my guest.
00:09:21A tiny little desert island that nobody gives a shit about.
00:09:25( chuckles )
00:09:26Cameron? What do you think?
00:09:33Okay.
00:09:34Um... say we're all talking the same way.
00:09:39Cool. What are we saying?
00:09:42Are we just shooting the breeze? Are we playing games?
00:09:45Are we looking to get laid?
00:09:47- Are we just mindlessly shopping? - That's an excellent point.
00:09:50Content is paramount, but this box is the equivalent of a 500,000-seat state-of-the-art stadium, and we build that, we own that, we win.
00:10:00But what's the point of having a giant stadium if you don't have a kickass band to play the venue?
00:10:04Whoa, whoa, whoa, guys, the last thing that we need to do right now is hop in the car and race out to the parking lot of an empty stadium before rock and roll is even invented.
00:10:11Hey, guys, we are early.
00:10:14And I'm not talking, "Let's all just run down to the IHOP and grab some silver dollar pancakes" early.
00:10:18We are years and years early on this.
00:10:20Trust me, okay? This is what I do.
00:10:22- I can't believe you don't see this. - Look, I agree.
00:10:25Okay, the World Wide Web could be the next best thing since sliced bread.
00:10:28But right now, it's a tiny little academic petri dish
00:10:31- running on a NeXT computer. - In Europe.
00:10:33- Yes, is Europe. - Then what exactly are we all doing here?
00:10:36Okay, hold on, hold on. Just-- let's not lose the shared idea here.
00:10:40There's a shared protocol. This is a universal language.
00:10:44- So it's Esperanto. - What the heck is Esperanto?
00:10:47It's a language for idiots that failed.
00:10:49Okay, you know what? Let's-- why don't we take a break for lunch?
00:10:52It's, like, 10:30.
00:10:54I mean, I could eat. Sure.
00:11:50( footsteps approaching )
00:11:55Gordon went out to get some pizza.
00:11:57I figured maybe it'd been a while since you had that in Japan.
00:12:01There's a Domino's around the corner from our apartment.
00:12:04Oh.
00:12:09Look, you came all this way.
00:12:11It just seems like you don't want to be here.
00:12:14I said I'd listen.
00:12:16Donna, it's not like this is the only thing we're doing stateside.
00:12:19I have a meeting with Atari. Tom has to meet with SEGA U.S.--
00:12:22And you're doing Christmas in Texas with his family, I know.
00:12:25Cam, we planned this whole thing around your travel.
00:12:31In Vegas you said this was a good idea.
00:12:35It is a good idea.
00:12:38But is also has severe limitations in reality.
00:13:01It's good to see you, Joe.
00:13:03Thanks.
00:13:09It's good to see you doing so well.
00:13:12- As opposed to...? - No, it's just--
00:13:15Cameron said-- she said at COMDEX you were-- you were having a bit of a rough go of it, that's all.
00:13:23I'm sorry to hear about what happened.
00:13:25I never met Ryan, but Cameron spoke really highly of him.
00:13:33It was difficult.
00:13:36For a long time.
00:13:37But I'm doing so much better since I've reconnected with your wife.
00:14:00- Donna: Hold on-- - ( groans )
00:14:02I feel like we're talking in circles.
00:14:04What we're really looking at is...
00:14:06Ow!
00:14:09You know, I'd like to take things in a different direction, if I could.
00:14:13I'd like to talk about what I learned in Paris.
00:14:15Paris?
00:14:16The whimsical art of mime?
00:14:18I went to the Hypertext Conference a few weeks ago.
00:14:21- The what conference? - Hypertext.
00:14:22Some pretty big names were there-- Apple, Xerox.
00:14:26- I'm surprised you didn't hear about it. - Yeah, me, too.
00:14:29It was right after I saw you in COMDEX.
00:14:30Okay, so, Hypertext Conference.
00:14:33Berners-Lee was there and he was talking to anyone who would listen.
00:14:36He handed out the entire Web toolkit, the transfer protocol, the mark-up language, the server software, everything.
00:14:43- Wait, you met him? - You have all of that?
00:14:45- Yeah. - That would have been useful to know this morning, maybe.
00:14:48What's so interesting about a programming language like Hypertext--
00:14:53It's not a programming language, it's just a text that accesses other texts.
00:14:55Yes, I'm actually talking about HTML, the mark-up language.
00:14:59What's so interesting about it is its simplicity.
00:15:01With a very basic set of rules, you can create pages of information, objects, and eventually media when the bandwidth increases.
00:15:09So, I cornered the guys at CERN.
00:15:11Sorry, what is CERN?
00:15:13CERN. European Organization for Nuclear Research.
00:15:16Oh, right, nuclear research. Okay, I see the connection.
00:15:19Sorry, I'm not hearing the "C" word in it.
00:15:21Nobody was paying any attention to them.
00:15:23In a way, they reminded me of Gordon and Donna, COMDEX '81.
00:15:26- Oh, yeah. - What, pathetic?
00:15:28Devastatingly handsome?
00:15:30Geniuses ahead of their time.
00:15:33Berners-Lee handed out guidebooks not only for HTML, but HTTP, the transfer protocol, the call-and-response process for moving information like this across to potential networks.
00:15:42Addressing protocol is TCP/IP.
00:15:44But HTTP is the abstraction application layer protocol that sits on top of TCP/IP symbiotically, right, Tom?
00:15:50With HTTP, any machine can become a client, any machine can become a server, easily exchanging files.
00:15:56No, files are FTP, as in File Transfer Protocol.
00:16:00It's the one that has "file" in the name of it.
00:16:02What I am saying is HTTP will eventually supplant FTP.
00:16:05What I'm saying is it can do it all.
00:16:08That's interesting.
00:16:10Really? FTP? That's interesting?
00:16:12I'd like to get back to an important point-- simplicity.
00:16:16Both HTML and HTTP are breathtakingly simple.
00:16:20And this kind of elegance allows for versatility, it allows for universality--
00:16:25Yes, a universal language, like I said.
00:16:27And the best part is, the online catalogue viewer, the transfer protocol, the Web server software, all of it is free.
00:16:36I have a problem with open source.
00:16:38- You do? - Yeah, I do.
00:16:40Do you know how many bad video game pitches
00:16:42I sit through every single day?
00:16:43The only way SEGA stays SEGA, or Nintendo stays Nintendo, is by not turning those pitches into products.
00:16:51- That's not-- - No, no.
00:16:53Because open source allows the lunatics to run the asylum.
00:16:57And every time-- every time-- you put well-made code out into the world, for people to screw around with, it causes major problems.
00:17:07I mean, just look what happened to MacMillan Utility.
00:17:10- What are you doing? - What?
00:17:12What happened to MacMillan Utility?
00:17:13Um, gee. The release of their source code online vaporized millions of shareholder dollars.
00:17:18- And, long story short, you're not around anymore. - Okay!
00:17:23- Or you could look at it a different way. - Uh-huh.
00:17:25That with everyone creating something like the Web together, some potentially amazing things could happen.
00:17:30One, it gets built very fast.
00:17:32Two, it becomes huge in size.
00:17:34Three, it's constantly being edited and refined, so it's improving at a massive rate.
00:17:40And four, there's no overlord controlling things.
00:17:43Gordon: And what network is this giant, miraculous nebula of collaboration happening on?
00:17:48You know as well as I do that something like this could change the face of the Internet.
00:17:51The Internet is not available for commercial use.
00:17:54Do you know how much money I poured into lobbying, trying to get deregulation through?
00:17:58Look, everybody wants this and it's gonna happen eventually.
00:18:01But we are early, and it's all about timing.
00:18:04If the timing's off, we're dead. Timing's what killed Mutiny.
00:18:07- Timing didn't kill Mutiny. - I'm sorry...
00:18:09The right people make it the right time.
00:18:12We can move this forward.
00:18:14We can be the people that make that future happen.
00:18:16- Oh, my God. - What?
00:18:18I'm so sick of hearing about the future.
00:18:21What is that? The future is just another crappy version of the present.
00:18:26It's some bribe people offer you to make you do what they want instead of what you want.
00:18:33This future can be different.
00:18:45( laughs )
00:18:48Oh, Jesus, that should be on your business card, Joe.
00:18:51How many times are you people gonna fall for this?
00:18:55You know, I'm with Joe.
00:18:57I can't believe I'm saying that, but I'm with Joe.
00:19:00Of course you're with Joe. You guys are the money people.
00:19:02But it's me and Cameron that actually have to do it.
00:19:05- Look, nobody's doing anything yet-- - Exactly.
00:19:09( knocks on table ) Yeah, uh, guys, it's been fun, but I think we're gonna hit the road.
00:19:12Yeah, it's been, uh, thorough.
00:19:14Yeah, okay, we can call it a day and reconvene in the morning.
00:19:24Well, you know, maybe-- maybe tomorrow will go better.
00:19:28There's not gonna be a tomorrow.
00:19:37Hey, Cameron?
00:19:44Come back tomorrow.
00:19:46You flew halfway across the world.
00:19:48Donna's trying. Just give her a chance.
00:19:51Joe...
00:19:52We got to see if there's something here.
00:19:58This is a mess, Joe.
00:20:01It's just a mess.
00:20:06( engine starts )
00:20:24"All My Ex's Live in Texas" playing in background
00:20:26♪ All my exes live in Texas... ♪
00:20:29( vocalizing )
00:20:32♪ Live in Texas ♪
00:20:34♪ ...the place I'd dearly love to be... ♪
00:20:38Come on, now.
00:20:39♪ But all my exes live in Texas ♪
00:20:46♪ And that's why I hang my hat...♪
00:20:48Permission to come aboard?
00:20:55Permission granted.
00:21:01( turns off radio )
00:21:04- Careful there with them city shoes. - Oh, sorry.
00:21:06Might wanna wait a sec till you get your sea legs under you.
00:21:09That's all right.
00:21:12Huh.
00:21:17Cool boat.
00:21:19Hard to sail in a driveway, though.
00:21:21Yup.
00:21:24Well, I was beating that slot up between Angel Island and Golden Gate last month, and I didn't heel fast enough in the shallows and I scratched the shit out of my gelcoat.
00:21:34( laughs ) Well, look at you!
00:21:36The salty sailor.
00:21:39Look at you.
00:21:41Yeah, I know. Just all grown up, right?
00:21:45Well, hell, Cameron, you were all grown up before I ever met you.
00:21:49- Beer? - Yeah.
00:21:57How'd it go this morning with Donna?
00:22:00How did you...?
00:22:02Oh, Diane told me. Whose driveway you think you're in?
00:22:04( can pops )
00:22:07How is Diane?
00:22:10She's good. Good.
00:22:12- Yeah? You guys are still-- - Yup.
00:22:14She still goes to work and I stay retired.
00:22:17Some weekends we sail up to Sausalito or Tiburon.
00:22:21Mostly go to the vineyard if we got a couple of extra days.
00:22:24So Californian.
00:22:27You take her to Texas yet?
00:22:28I have, yeah.
00:22:30Loved the rodeo. Hated everything else.
00:22:33- ( laughs ) - And I think she was just being polite about the rodeo.
00:22:38So, what's next? Wedding bells?
00:22:42Oh, sure, we've talked about it, but, no.
00:22:44Hell, between us we got three kids aged 35 to 14, and that's enough.
00:22:51Hey, how's old Tommy Rendon?
00:22:53- Uh-- - Kids on the radar for you yet?
00:22:55Ooh, no.
00:22:57No, I--
00:22:59Tom wants them, but...
00:23:01No. If it was up to me, we'd just get them out of a vending machine like everything else in Japan.
00:23:05- Like what? - Uh... edible underwear.
00:23:09- Come on! - Yeah.
00:23:10Plus, you know, we're just so far from home these days.
00:23:15Although, what the hell is home anymore?
00:23:17Well, you're here now, ain't ya?
00:23:20Yeah, I'm here.
00:23:23It only took me 24 hours to realize that coming back was a mistake.
00:23:33Well, Donna says it's a pretty hot idea.
00:23:35Had to be to get all you yokels in the same room again.
00:23:38It is. It's just... too many cooks.
00:23:45Fool me twice, right?
00:23:50Was that what happened?
00:23:52You got fooled?
00:23:56And also I just have my own thing going on that I'm busy with, so...
00:24:01Yeah. Space Bike.
00:24:03Yeah.
00:24:05That's right, I got it. I tried it out.
00:24:07- Really? - Well, look-- well, it's not for me.
00:24:12I am just amazed that you even installed it.
00:24:16I couldn't make heads or tails of it, to tell you the truth.
00:24:18Well, who's that little bastard with the chainsaw?
00:24:22Who's that one?
00:24:23And then you got the force field thing.
00:24:25- Mm-hmm. - Hell, it's like you can't even win.
00:24:29Nope.
00:24:31No, you can't.
00:24:37( knocking )
00:24:43( stammering ) Sorry, I'm just here for Haley's retainer.
00:24:46She conveniently forgot it again.
00:24:48Yeah, I think I saw it upstairs.
00:24:53Oh, did you want me to-- 'cause I can go--
00:24:56No, no, I can get it. Come on in.
00:24:58You know, I, uh... still sleep up there every night.
00:25:07Hey, why don't you get yourself a glass of wine?
00:25:10- Uh... - You look like you could use one.
00:25:17You know where it is.
00:25:21( jazz music playing )
00:25:26The key to the bisque is the Parmesan toast.
00:25:29Four years ago, the only Parmesan you knew about was powdered.
00:25:33Yeah, well, I still got that, too.
00:25:35Joanie eats it by the spoonful.
00:25:38Dirty little secret?
00:25:39Teenage girls are just as disgusting as teenage boys.
00:25:43Well, have you seen this thing that she does with the chocolate syrup?
00:25:46And the milk? It's atrocious.
00:25:48- Oh, my God. - Ugh.
00:25:50Yeah, speaking of cheese, seems like Joe MacMillan is back in rare form.
00:25:54Yes, you've gone and woken up the beast.
00:25:57Well, it was my only way to get to Cameron.
00:25:59It was a long shot and it didn't even work. I had to go myself.
00:26:02I don't know, maybe that didn't even work either.
00:26:04Yeah, well, what were you gonna do all these years, you know?
00:26:07Between work and the kids?
00:26:09You know, get on a plane and fly to Tokyo?
00:26:11Well, I could pitch a terrible video game to Tom.
00:26:15No, no, no.
00:26:17You would never get a meeting with someone as important as Tom.
00:26:20( both laughing )
00:26:22- You know, if they do come back tomorrow... - Yeah?
00:26:25I got this really great idea for them.
00:26:27- Yeah, what's that? - For a video game.
00:26:29Basically, it's this conveyor belt filled with all these light bulbs, but you have to shit on them before they turn on.
00:26:37Wait, I have the perfect title.
00:26:39- Mm-hmm. - Ready?
00:26:40"You're an Asshole."
00:26:52Listen, I--
00:26:54I apologize today for calling you a money person.
00:26:57- Oh. - I didn't mean it.
00:26:59It just kind of came out.
00:27:01Oh. It's true, though.
00:27:04These days.
00:27:07I don't know, maybe it was a mistake-- bringing everybody back together and trying to fix things.
00:27:13Yeah, well, if nobody shows up tomorrow, I'm still interested.
00:27:17Really? It didn't seem like that today.
00:27:20What the-- all I said was, you're early.
00:27:24Okay, it's a disservice to everyone if I didn't say that.
00:27:27You know, and look, I've--
00:27:29I've been wrong before.
00:27:30I'll be the first to admit that.
00:27:36Can I ask you a weird question?
00:27:39Yeah, shoot.
00:27:43Are you having just a ton of sex these days?
00:27:49Um...
00:27:53I do all right.
00:27:56How about you?
00:27:59Yeah. Same.
00:28:03Huh.
00:28:06Uh, are you-- are you seeing anyone right now?
00:28:14Nope.
00:28:18Good. 'Cause there's something really weird I want to ask you.
00:28:26Would you be open to... meeting someone?
00:28:30Like, for a date?
00:28:33I think you and this guy would really hit it off.
00:28:36What?
00:28:37Yeah, there's this really great guy I know.
00:28:40He runs the computer lab programs at Cal.
00:28:43He's really nice and I just thought, you're free, he's free...
00:28:57I don't know.
00:29:12( keyboard clicking )
00:29:15What are you doing?
00:29:17I'm trying to finish this presentation.
00:29:20My battery died, so I'm using yours.
00:29:25Is that okay?
00:29:28Yeah, it's fine.
00:29:33How's Bos?
00:29:35Yeah, he's good.
00:29:37Oh, look...
00:29:40I know today wasn't fun for you, so if you don't want to come back tomorrow, you don't have to.
00:29:46- So, you're going? - Well...
00:29:49- Yeah, I guess so. - Okay, well, I guess I'm going, too.
00:29:53Good.
00:29:57Let me get in the shower.
00:30:05( door closes )
00:30:11( shower running )
00:30:29( marker squeaking )
00:30:48What's up with him?
00:30:50He says he needs five minutes.
00:30:52Huh.
00:30:57Wow. Man, did I wake up with a headache this morning.
00:31:01Hey, you left kind of fast last night.
00:31:05I hope I didn't say anything dumb.
00:31:07You know, about the date.
00:31:10Gordon, it's fine.
00:31:11Oh, great. I mean, you know, good.
00:31:15I'd love his number.
00:31:19Unless, you know-- if it would be weird...
00:31:24No.
00:31:26No, I mean...
00:31:29Yeah, no problem.
00:31:34( door slams )
00:31:38Oh, you're here.
00:31:41( laughs ) You're all here.
00:31:43Let's get started.
00:31:45Berners-Lee wrote HTML to view and edit the Web,
00:31:48HTTP so that it could talk to itself.
00:31:50The chatter could be cacophonous.
00:31:53It could be deafeningly silent.
00:31:56Big picture-- what will the World Wide Web become?
00:32:02Short answer-- who knows?
00:32:05Okay, so, what's your point?
00:32:07It's a waste of time to try to figure out what the Web will become. We just don't know.
00:32:10Because right now, at the end of the day, it's just an online research catalogue running on NeXT computers on a small network in Europe.
00:32:18So, you're saying everything we've talked about since we got here has been a waste of time?
00:32:21I'm saying, let's take a step back.
00:32:24Literally, a step back.
00:32:28Yeah, but what is this on the board?
00:32:30It's the code for the Web browser.
00:32:32And you wrote it all on the whiteboard.
00:32:33The online catalogue of research?
00:32:35Full of Norwegian dudes, physics papers, and particle diagrams and stuff?
00:32:39Yeah, and we care about this because why?
00:32:41How did we all get here today?
00:32:43The choices we made, the sheer force of our will, something like that?
00:32:48Here's another answer-- the winds of fate.
00:32:52Random coincidence, some unseen hand just pushing us along.
00:32:57Destiny.
00:32:59How did we all get here today?
00:33:05We walked through this door.
00:33:08We don't have to build a big white box or a stadium, or invent rock and roll.
00:33:13The moment we decide what the Web is, we've lost.
00:33:15The moment we try to tell people what to do with it, we've lost.
00:33:18All we have to do is build a door and let them inside.
00:33:27When I was five, my mother took me to the city.
00:33:30And we went through the Holland Tunnel, and it was basic.
00:33:34Concrete and steel.
00:33:36But it was also my excitement sitting in the backseat, wondering when it was going to be our turn to emerge.
00:33:43It was the explosion of sunlight.
00:33:46And when we exited the tunnel, all of Manhattan was laid out before us.
00:33:52And that was the best part of the trip-- the amazing possibility to be able to go anywhere within something that is magnificent and never-ending.
00:34:02This is the first Web browser, the rudimentary one CERN built to view and edit research.
00:34:09I wrote it up here for you to see how simple it is.
00:34:12It takes up one whiteboard-- that's basic concrete and steel.
00:34:16But we can take this and we can build a door, and we can be the first ones to do it.
00:34:23Because right now, everyone else sees this as--
00:34:26As an online research catalogue.
00:34:27Running on NeXT.
00:34:29On a network in Europe.
00:34:32And with this handful of code, we can build the Holland Tunnel.
00:34:41I don't see it.
00:34:45I don't. I mean, is it a door, or is it a tunnel?
00:34:48Or is it the Tower of Babel?
00:34:50Or is it a Rosetta Stone, or is it a stadium?
00:34:52You can't even decide on a metaphor.
00:34:54And if the big idea here is the browser, and it's that easy to build, then it's not a big idea at all.
00:35:00It's a foregone conclusion.
00:35:03And how can we win at something when anyone-- anyone, including Xerox and Apple and all the actual players from your little Hypertext shindig, can step in at any moment and crush us?
00:35:14It will be competitive, because whoever owns the door can charge admission.
00:35:19But I sincerely believe that with the people in this room, we have a chance to build the best--
00:35:23And what makes you think you have all the people in this room, Joe?
00:35:29Come on, Cam, let's go.
00:35:35Come on, Cam. Let's go.
00:35:46Let's cut the bullshit, Tom.
00:35:50- Your problem isn't the idea. - You're right, Joe.
00:35:53Do you know what my problem is?
00:35:56I don't want to see Cameron end up like Ryan.
00:35:57Tom!
00:35:59You say his name one more time--
00:36:00Ryan. Do you remember him?
00:36:08Well, hey, lucky for us, wives don't get a vote.
00:36:11You--
00:36:12- Donna: Oh, my God. - Tom!
00:36:21( both panting )
00:36:26( wood cracking )
00:36:27( screams )
00:36:31Joe!
00:36:33Cameron: Joe?!
00:36:36Cameron: Go!
00:36:40( groans )
00:36:46( woman speaking over P.A. )
00:36:54I know. You're lucky you're not dead.
00:36:57Listen, Joe, if we have any chance in hell at this, it's this kind of personal bullshit that's going to sink us before we even start.
00:37:04- Us? - Yeah, Cameron was right.
00:37:06There's no such thing as the future, hey?
00:37:09All there is is now.
00:37:11Maybe we're not early.
00:37:13Maybe if we do it now, we could be the first.
00:37:17Regardless, I am done waiting.
00:37:21I can't let this one get away.
00:37:22Then don't.
00:37:30Hey, he's fine.
00:37:31He broke his wrist, but he's okay.
00:37:44What happened at COMDEX?
00:37:48What? Nothing.
00:37:54Nothing happened.
00:38:00I need some air.
00:38:07( sighs )
00:38:34You okay?
00:38:40So easy to make Joe the bad guy.
00:38:44I mean... making him the villain takes the blame away, but in everything that's happened with him, every single time...
00:38:56I deserve some of the blame, too.
00:39:05And it's the same with you, you know?
00:39:09Things fell apart.
00:39:11And you did what you did, but a lot of it was my fault.
00:39:21This is a really cool idea.
00:39:23Yeah, I think so, too!
00:39:27And, look, if Joe is a problem for you, then he doesn't have to be here.
00:39:34We can get rid of him.
00:39:55- We all patched in? - Yeah, give it a try.
00:39:59Yup, we're in, good and speedy.
00:40:03So, this is your baby, huh?
00:40:05Yeah, the little network that could.
00:40:07The DSP in this cube is amazing.
00:40:11Not only are we getting clean 56K, we can do this at the same time.
00:40:15"King of Wishful Thinking" playing in background
00:40:16♪ I'll get over you, I know... ♪
00:40:18- Sounds pretty good, huh? - Yeah, is that coming off the CD-ROM?
00:40:21♪ I'll pretend my ship's not sinking... ♪
00:40:23- ( music stops ) - We should really focus.
00:40:26Okay, so through NSFNET, we can connect to CERN?
00:40:29Yes, but we're gonna crawl once we jump to Europe.
00:40:32Why? The TAT-8 is fiber optic.
00:40:34Yeah, but it's also buried along the continental shelf and constantly being attacked by sharks.
00:40:39Apparently, they can sense the electrical radiation.
00:40:42- I know. - I love your mind.
00:40:47You know, seven grand a pop is still insane, and I don't know why the cube is magnesium, but I still appreciate a good machine.
00:40:55Yeah, well... you know what they say, software comes and goes...
00:41:00Both: But hardware is forever.
00:41:02( Donna chuckles )
00:41:09Okay. Do you have everything?
00:41:12- Yeah. - Okay, this is good. This is good.
00:41:15Yeah, I'll knock out my meetings today and get in a few days early,
00:41:19I'll see the family, get my bearings.
00:41:20I think-- I think it will help me recalibrate.
00:41:25Yeah, this is good.
00:41:27Yeah, and I'll pick you up at the airport day after tomorrow, okay?
00:41:31- I'll be there. - Okay.
00:41:41Wait, um...
00:41:44I'm really sorry that I didn't trust you.
00:41:48I don't like who I've been this weekend.
00:41:54It's been a weird situation for me, too.
00:42:00The other night at the hotel,
00:42:03I was reading your emails on your laptop.
00:42:07I can't believe that I did that.
00:42:09I just couldn't get Joe out of my head, and it was completely irrational and I'm sorry.
00:42:19I just-- don't want us to lie to one another.
00:42:24Because I love you.
00:42:30I love you, too.
00:42:43( sighs )
00:42:45- Okay. - Okay.
00:42:52Joe...
00:42:57Joe, I am...
00:43:01Joe, I-- I just wanted to apologize again for yesterday.
00:43:06The way I behaved...
00:43:09I was way, way, way out of line.
00:43:13I was out of line, too.
00:43:19Sorry.
00:43:29- I love you. - Love you.
00:43:35- I'll see you. - Okay.
00:43:40( engine starts )
00:43:58Hey, they're ready downstairs.
00:44:01Donna...
00:44:06I can't work with you.
00:44:13What?
00:44:16I can't work with you.
00:44:19It will never be like it was.
00:44:22It can't be.
00:44:27But last night, we-- we talked.
00:44:31It was good.
00:44:33I don't understand.
00:44:37You know why I wanted us to meet here?
00:44:41I just didn't want to forget what had happened, how painful that was.
00:44:48Why?
00:44:51And then I almost did forget last night when we talked, when it felt good, when I was with my friend again.
00:44:58And then you reminded me how easily you toss people aside when you feel like they're in your way.
00:45:09This about Joe.
00:45:11No, this is about you.
00:45:14Jesus!
00:45:16I was trying to help you.
00:45:19All I was ever trying to do was help you.
00:45:25Well... the thing is, Donna,
00:45:32I love this project... and I want to work on it.
00:45:46Take it.
00:45:50Take it.
00:46:16( breathing deeply )
00:46:23- ( engine starts ) - Damn it.
00:46:26- ( engine shuts off ) - ( crying )
00:46:40( sobbing )
00:47:09( touch tones beeping )
00:47:14It's me. I'm headed to the office.
00:47:16I need a flight to Switzerland and I need to meet with CERN when I get there.
00:47:25( engine starts )
00:47:33( keyboard clicking )
00:47:41Where the hell is Cameron?
00:47:44You know how long I've been waiting, just sitting around the last four years, twiddling my thumbs?
00:47:50Maybe this futures bet we made will finally pay off.
00:47:55I'm in love with her.
00:48:02( footsteps approach )
00:48:10Where's Donna?
00:48:12She left.
00:48:15"New Morning" playing
00:48:24All right. Let's do this.
00:48:29♪ Can't you hear that rooster crowing ♪
00:48:37♪ Rabbit running down across the road ♪
00:48:40♪ Underneath the bridge ♪
00:48:42♪ Where the water flowed through? ♪
00:48:47♪ So happy just to see you smile ♪
00:48:49♪ Underneath that sky of blue ♪
00:48:52♪ On this new morning ♪
00:48:56♪ New morning ♪
00:48:59♪ On this new morning ♪
00:49:03♪ With you. ♪
00:49:10( theme music playing )