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[Indistinct conversations] -Man: It's starting.

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What am I looking for? Uhh...

What am I looking for?

What am I looking for?

For bootlegs...

3/4-inch socket wrench.

For the best coffee in the city.

[Audience applauds, whistles] -Winona Ryder. So into her.

Landscaping supplies?

-Shoes. -Shoes.

For the meaning of life, bra.

[Laughter]

[Speaking Spanish]

I'm looking for something funny.

[Speaking Hebrew]

I'm looking for inspiration!

I'm looking for a cure.

-I'm looking for... -I'm looking for...

-I'm looking for... -I'm looking for...

-I'm looking for... -I'm looking for...

-I'm looking for... -I'm looking for...

I'm looking for...

Dude, the Internet.

-The Internet? -The Internet.

What in God's name would I look for on the Internet?

Yeah, you could... [Applause]

...find just about anything on the Internet.

[Inspirational music playing]

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Whoo!

[Cheers and applause]

[Cheers and applause continue]

Okay -- it's, uh, a commercial.

And commercials exist to sell products.

But this isn't just a product. It isn't.

It's a new way of connecting.

A new way of being.

Uhh, hit it.

-[Gasping] -Whoo hoo hoo!

[Cheers and applause]

So, this is the new Comet, and it launches tonight.

No longer are we just a way station on people's journey someplace else.

We are the destination.

[Cheers and applause]

This is the combined effort of every single person here, from our original surfers to our coding team headed up by Cameron Howe.

[Cheers and applause] -Woman: Good job, Cam!

It's Cameron's last day now that work on the relaunch is complete...

All: Aww!

Settle down. We all knew her days were numbered.

Uhh...

So, one more person I'd like to mention.

A huge part of the soul of this place is no longer here.

But this is a family business.

Comet began with Haley Clark.

Her dad and I met back in 1983.

And I told him, "Computers aren't the thing.

They're the thing that gets us to the thing."

And this is the...

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Com-IT! Com-IT!

All: Com-IT! Com-IT! Com-IT!

Com-IT! Com-IT! Com-IT!

Com-IT! Com-IT!

Com-IT! Com-IT!

Com-IT! Com-IT!

Whoo-ooo!

All right!

Back to it!

[Cheers and applause]

[Indistinct conversations]

Yeah, do like...

Think we can, uh, discuss that --

-We have some mock-ups. -Yeah, five minutes.

[Indistinct conversations]

You okay?

Yeah. Celebrate later?

Yeah. What you wanna do?

Just...get some dinner and make out in a parked car somewhere?

A little over-the-clothes stuff and some dim sum.

[Laughs]

So I guess I will say goodbye to the guys, and uh, I can call Alexa.

Of course. Yeah.

[Indistinct conversations]

Woman on P.A.: Ladies at gentlemen,

at this time, we are now boarding

our main-cabin passengers onto Pacific Flight 590,

with nonstop service to Bangkok.

Oh, oh. I almost forgot. Hang on.

Here.

-What is this? -That is a travel organizer.

I put a little map of Bangkok in there.

-Hmm. -Compartments for loose change and, um, your passport, traveler's checks.

Mom, I'm not taking this.

Why?

Because I'm 18 and not 45.

I'm staying in hostels.

If you actually want me to get mugged,

I'll walk around with a Louis Vuitton wallet.

[Sighs]

Mom, this is my trip.

I just wish you'd treat me like an adult.

Which I am, by the way.

You...

Fine.

Be safe.

Okay.

-Bye. -Oh, my God.

Keys to my Civic are on my desk.

Take my old driver's license, okay?

Just in case.

It's an old photo, but... the cops will believe you 'cause you're a cute girl.

Maybe wear a hat just in case.

[Laughing] Yeah.

Ladies and gentlemen,

this is the final boarding call

for the Cathay Pacific Flight 590...

Okay. ...with nonstop service to Bangkok.

Don't go.

[Sobs]

You don't have to go.

I don't know why you have to do this right now.

You should just... just stay.

This is such bullshit, Mom.

Uhh...

[Indistinct conversations]

Let's go, Mom.

[Sobbing]

[Monitor beeping, buzzing]

The doctor complains to his wife that she ain't so good in bed anymore.

Well, he goes to work.

And by midday, he calls her on the phone.

And the phone rings and it rings...

[Beeping, buzzing] And it rings and it rings.

And, uh, finally, she picks up. She's out of breath.

And he goes, "What the hell took you so long to answer the phone?"

[Laughs] And she says...

Something about a second opinion, right?

Yeah. [Clears throat] That's the one.

So...stent looks pretty good.

Yeah.

Any shortness of breath, chest pains?

No. No.

Get a little light-headed sometimes if I shit real big.

You know, I never asked you -- Levecq -- what the hell kinda name is that?

Levecq? Is it, uh...Swedish?

Or...is it Norwegian, or...

Is it a Czech-- Czechoslovakian?

Little French Canadian there?

Hmm.

[Inhales deeply]

[Exhales]

Dutch.

You're good to go.

Well --

Okay, but -- wh--

When do you want me to come back?

I don't.

Well, not even for a look-see?

I mean...don't you want to make sure

I'm not blowing a gasket?

Mm, nope.

Something goes wrong, call.

If doesn't, don't.

[Clears throat]

You're in good health, John.

If you take care of yourself, you'll live well into the 21st century.

[Gong booms]

[Drumming]

[Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" plays]

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21st century.

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Son of a... [Laughs]

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Joe: So then Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark fly out to Urbana Champaign, gather all the Mosaic coders in a pizza joint, and offer them $65,000 salaries, a-a week's vacation on his yacht in Tahiti, and 100,000 shares of the company.

And Clark tells them that if they leave NCSA and come work for him, they'll be worth $10 million in less than five years.

So Jim Clark steals all the best coders from a shitty company to go do something way better...

Why does that sound familiar?

Anyway, my point is that they've all followed him out to Silicon Valley to build a browser, and now Netscape is about to demolish Mosaic.

If we were to launch Comet inside Netscape, it'd be slow as hell, if it even loads correctly.

And if it doesn't, then Rover won't or any of our competitors.

But if we can figure out a way to make Comet run smoothly on Netscape, then all of their users will flock to us.

But those guys created Mosaic.

They already know how to make a browser that runs.

But they can't replicate what they've already done.

The Mosaic code is intellectual property.

Like the BIOS.

Yeah, like the BIOS.

And they won't know how it works until it's out in the wild.

And -- And...they...

They'll want to make Netscape better than Mosaic.

Joe...what are we doing here?

You could've told me all of this in bed.

Oh.

The sound card's blown.

Other than that, it runs perfectly.

Oh...

'Kay.

I need one more thing from you.

[Exhales deeply]

Uh-huh...

It's a quick job. When Netscape launches, we pull apart the code so that Comet can load fast.

And you're bribing me with Centipede?

Mm-hmm.

If we can pull this off, we'll have a -- a showpiece to offer Jim Clark so he can promote his baby.

They will beg for us to be a part of their infrastructure.

[Sighs] Okay.

We can't wait until Netscape launches.

It's too late.

We have to optimize Comet so that it's running fast on Day One.

Which, if you want a showcase for Jim Clark... we need to start pulling apart the Netscape code today.

But there's no way they're going to just give us a working copy.

Oh, no, they won't.

Let me make a call.

I love you.

[Laughs softly]

[Distant beeping]

What is that sound?

[Beeping continues]

It's Gordon's wristwatch.

Ohh.

It would go off when he needed to take his medication.

[Beeping continues]

I don't know where the key to the office is.

[Beeping rapidly]

[Beeping stops]

[Scoffs] Okay.

I'll call our locksmith today.

Mm-hmm.

Hey, do you want to play?

Sure.

[Coins rattle]

All right.

[Buttons clicking]

[Splashing]

Oh.

Hi. [Chuckles]

How, uh -- How was Seattle?

Soggy.

[Laughs]

Sorry about the ambush.

I saw your car parked in the driveway, and nobody answered when I rang the bell.

How was it? Sending Joanie off?

Oh, you know, fine.

Just hope she stays safe.

Donna: How's Jennifer settling in at Stanford?

Well, she was home the first weekend.

Ohhh.

Doing laundry, stealing food.

-Yeah. -Last year at this time,

I couldn't bear the thought of her leaving for college.

And now...I kinda wish she'd at least left the zip code.

[Laughs] Yeah, well...

[Sighs]

So...we have news.

Kimberly is pregnant.

Wh-- I-- Congratulations!

That's amazing.

Yeah. No, but thanks.

[Laughs]

But the whole family wants to take a big trip to Ireland while she can still fly.

And John and I would like to do some traveling of our own --

No, I know. You're ready to move on.

Donna, I understand. It's been hard.

But it's been four months.

And I need to know what you're doing.

I'm swimming.

[Exhales sharply]

We have greased the rails.

Managing partner is yours.

Period.

You said you wanted the summer to be with your girls.

I heard that. But the summer is over, Donna.

The longer you wait, the harder it's gonna get.

Trip and his stooges are strutting through that office every day thinking they can run it better than you.

They think you're getting soft.

Look, if you don't want this, it's okay.

We can have that conversation.

But you need to make a decision.

[Sighs]

Okay, well... give it some thought, and let me know.

[Sighs]

Hm.

[Chuckles]

C--

You got to be kiddin' me.

Whaaat?

Oh, hey.

Hey, you're home later than I thought.

How was the trip?

-It was good. -Ahh!

Sorry, I stopped to see Donna on the way home from the airport.

Well, so what's the verdict?

We gonna sprout wings and see the world or is she gonna float in that swimming pool forever?

You know, I don't know.

I'm gonna go wash the plane off me.

All right. Hey, what is all this stuff?

Some of Ben's old junk, I suppose.

[Chuckles]

What have you been doing with your bachelorhood?

Well, you know, fartin' around.

This and that. Went to the doctor.

Got a clean bill of health. [Laughs]

He said I should live well into the 21st century.

You imagine that? Jet packs and robot overlords.

[Chuckles]

Hey, look what I found, too.

Can you believe this? This is a Cardiff original.

I could've packed this thing in a box myself when I was a teenager. [Laughing] My God.

I bet it still works.

I just need to get some batteries for it.

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What?

[Inhales deeply]

Honey, what?

[Clank]

What?

I'm sorry, I...

You're gonna be okay.

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Yeah, I'm okay.

I'm okay.

I'm gonna be okay.

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Ooh. Mercy.

You weren't kidding about that plane goo, were ya?

[Laughs softly]

Come on! Get to scrubbing!

[Chuckles]

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Ahh, look at ya.

[Indistinct talking, phones ringing]

But how do we optimize for Netscape if there's no Netscape yet?

Look, I get it. And I'm trying to figure it out.

But in the meantime, we still have to go through --

[Knock on door] Oh, okay. One second.

Hi.

Hi. For you.

Oh, God. Thank you.

[Laughing] Sure. Um...

Here, let me show you out.

So this is Comet.

Yeah.

Oh, I -- I saw the Mercury today.

Mm. God, the robotics thing you're doing looks so cool.

I'm flying out with those guys in a few weeks -- conference at the Sorbonne. You should come.

Oh, that's [laughs] --

I mean, I find all that stuff super fascinating, but...it's not really my thing.

Right?

No, I know.

But it's just a couple of days. All expenses paid.

Worst that happens?

You meet some fascinating people and eat too much lobster thermidor.

[Laughing] Yeah.

Next time.

Is what you said last time.

Look, I know that --

I've been talking you up. People are really interested.

And that's...great.

Hey, look, I'm sure that it's been a tough time for all of you.

And I get that you're trying to help a friend out.

And I'm young, so, you know, what do I know.

But you can get so tied up in your obligations you forget your biggest obligation is to your future self.

I know that.

Okay.

Well...

Hey, thank you.

And...

[Hushed voice] Seriously, this is the last thing.

I hope so.

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Carmen: [Laughing] But these are, like, huge shrimps, like, should not be called shrimp, and had those, like, little feeler touchy things still attached? -No!

-Yes! -No.

Huge plate, deep-fried, and those...feeler things were, like, this long.

-Come on. -Oh, no.

Please tell me you didn't eat one.

It was a business dinner. [Laughing] I had to.

So I took a glug of saké, picked one up, and just...

[Crunches]

[Slurps] -Oh, good lord.

You're disgusting.

That's my story.

-[Laughs] -[Laughs]

Okay, Joe, you're up.

Yeah. Uhh... Porpoise testicles.

-Joe... -Ughh.

...you did not eat porpoise testicles. [Laughs]

I 100% did.

It is not legal to even eat any porpoise anything.

I ate those fishy balls.

I did.

Do porpoises even have testicles?

I think so. I mean, what is a porpoise?

I mean, yeah. I think it was a porpoise.

But whatever it was, it was -- it was squishy, and I vomited... -Mm!

...into the gutter, and...Donna, you're up.

Oh. Uhh...

Yeah. All right -- beef carpaccio.

Ugh. So weird.

Um...

Um, Cameron will do this thing where she can, uh, like, set up, uh...

What? ...an assembly line of bologna, mayonnaise...

-Ohh! -...and pickles.

No, not pickles -- cornichon.

And, yes, duh... -I'm corrected. it's delicious. You get a pile of mayonnaise, pile of cornichon, dip the cornichon in the mayonnaise, wrap it in bologna, pop it in your mouth.

[Laughs softly]

That's pretty gross.

So have you guys heard from Joanie?

Yeah.

Uh, she went to the Grand Palace, and she saw this huge elephant park and something called the Sanctuary of Truth, which is this massive temple carved totally out of wood.

And on her second night, there was this monsoon?

But it's not like here, the rain was super warm, so she went running through the streets and she got all soaked and she ended up eating noodles in this little shack and made friends with these total strangers, and now they're all backpacking to Phuket.

Wow. That's awesome.

Yeah, I know. It's like...

She decides she wants to do something, and she just does it, you know?

Where's she going next?

I don't know.

Uh, I don't know.

I, uh, didn't get a chance to talk to her when she called.

She just spoke to Haley, so...

Oh.

Uh...

Hey, Haley. There's something I want to show you.

Hm?

Come with me.

Yeah, go check it out.

-Okay. -We'll clean up.

It's the commercial.

I've just been dying to show it to you.

Oh...no, that's -- that's okay.

No, you got to see this. Come on.

We got to grab lunch soon.

Catch up, you know?

Yeah, sure.

[Faucet running] -Ooh!

[Faucet stops] [Hushed voice] Sorry.

We're not actually gonna do the dishes.

Um, Joe likes the dishes done in a very particular way, and I'm not good at doing them like that, so I just don't do them anymore.

[Comet commercial playing]

Hey, so you're the new Diane now.

Oh...Yeah, no. I mean, nothing's official yet.

I'm still trying to decide if I even want it.

What? Of course you want it.

Yeah, you know, it's just,

I'm already so far removed from the creative side of things.

And it only gets worse if you're managing partner, you know?

Oh, uh, how are things with Alexa?

Are you, uh, you working on something new?

Kinda. Yeah.

[Wine flowing]

God, she just scored with this --

Oh, yeah, the robotics thing.

Robotics, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Mercury...

Yeah. Ugh. God, I miss that.

Doing things.

Yeah.

I mean, it's not like she actually did anything.

She just found those people, you know?

She doesn't really get her hands dirty.

Ah.

Why, do you want to do something?

No.

I don't know.

Aaaghh...I just --

I haven't had an original idea in kind of a long time.

Well, you came up with Community. [Laughs softly]

That was just an idea that percolated down from one of your ideas.

That's not totally accurate.

And, anyway, ideas are, like, not the work.

Yeah.

I mean, what you do -- it's more than just signing a check.

I-I get that now. [Laughs softly]

So I'm not parasite?

You're not a parasite.

[Laughs softly]

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What the hell.

Hey, hold on. Haley, wait.

Is it because...

It's weird to see him.

Is it weird?

Yeah, it's weird to see my dead dad in a stupid commercial.

It's weird that I'm in it, and that you didn't even ask me, and I don't even look like that anymore.

And it's weird that you've taken this thing that I made, and -- and now it's yours.

And all you want is to make money off of it!

Hey, I understa--

I'm 15! I don't want to have lunch and catch up or whatever.

I don't want to be at dinners.

I want everyone to leave me alone.

[Keys jangling] I'll be in the car.

[Door opens, slams shuts]

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I'm pulling the ad.

Joe...

Look, you put a lot of money in that commercial.

Don't just throw it down the drain.

Maybe you can cut her out of it.

It's my company.

I'm gonna do some work. Before bed.

[Pots clank]

What work?

Uhh, I've...been putting things off with Alexa.

And, uh...I need to give that some thought.

[Microwave humming]

I gave Joe permission, you know, for you to be in the ad.

So if you want to be angry, you should be angry with me.

It's not his fault.

[Plastic crackling]

I thought you'd like it.

I just want some Bagel Bites.

Haley, if there's anything you want to talk about, I'm --

[Microwave beeping]

[Sighs]

[Plate clinks]

Hey, I know we said I'd go back to work as soon as you started back up at school, but if you want, I can stay home --

No. I want you to go back to work.

And I want you to stop worrying about me so much.

Just, you know, worry about you.

You're here all day.

Swimming.

Well, I like swimming.

Yeah, Mom, I like swimming, too, but Jesus Christ.

[Laughs]

[Laughs]

Not bad.

They're incredible.

Um...I'm gonna go to my room.

So...Night.

John: Oh, that is a beaut, huh?

Donna: Uh-huh.

Ooh. That's good cocoa.

Mama used to make it with real chocolate.

She'd put it in the double boiler and melt it down.

That instant bullshit they have.

Ugh, ugh.

It's alkalized cocoa powder, what it is.

That's the garbage that's left over after they roast the cocoa beans, and they run it through a chemical bath so you can't taste how awful it is.

My God, it's a national travesty.

Yeah, well... things used to be more real, right?

See the way they worked -- this connects to this.

Now it's just all on a chip.

Yeah, it's like magic now.

Ahh, yeah, well... not my kind of magic.

[Chuckles]

What's so special you need to get this thing fixed today, huh?

You gonna miss the Glenn Miller Orchestra or something?

No, just got a bug up my butt, wanted to see if it still worked.

I used to pack that exact model into boxes all day at the Cardiff factory.

[Chuckles]

[Laughing] Yeah.

Yeah.

I can still smell that place.

It's weird, isn't it, how much stuff you remember from early in life?

And how all that stuff in the middle just kinda... just kinda runs together.

I am seven years older than my father was when he died.

He spent the whole day before yelling about how the tree from the Malone place was gonna bore into that sewer line and cost him a damn fortune.

[Chuckles]

And then boom, down.

Just...spent his last day bitching about tree roots.

Oh, Dad.

Anyway, it just seems to me if you want something, best to go get it done.

Now.

ANNOUNCER: It's a real pitchers' duel here.

-Hey! -[Laughs softly]

Now, that's magic.

See?

Perfect.

[Static]

Hey, would you, uh...

Would you have Diane give me a call?

Will do.

Ahh, screw it.

[Exhales deeply]

Just tell her I'm ready.

Okay.

[Veruca Salt's "Seether" playing, volume increasing ]

♪ I try to knock her out ♪

♪ I try to cram her back in my mouth, yeah ♪

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♪ Can't fight the seether ♪

♪ Seether ♪

♪ Can't fight the seether ♪

♪ Seether ♪

♪ Can't fight the seether ♪

♪ I can't see her till I'm foaming at the mouth ♪

[Music stops]

[Imitates monkey screeching]

[Laughs]

[Indistinct conversations]

Hey.

Hey...um...

So, I was thinking.

I have my sister's car.

Because remember how I said she's going to Thailand?

Which she says is hella badass.

Um...and, I mean, I'm sure you have a car, too, and I'm not even supposed to be driving it yet, but...whatever.

So, um, I was -- I was wondering, um, have you h-- have you heard of "Natural Born Killers"?

Yes.

Yeah. Juliette Lewis is awesome, and it's playing at the Century 24, but it's super popular so it might be sold out...

-Oh, well, that's -- -But if it is, uh, then we could go to the Winchester Mystery House which is right next door, and they do these midnight tours.

Which are dope, I think...

-[Laughs softly] -And, um, yeah.

Anyway, um [inhales deeply] could I take you to see "Natural Born Killers"?

[Door bells jingle]

Um...

[Inhales sharply]

[Whimpers]

[Sobbing]

♪ ...long time ago, baby ♪

[Broom sweeping]

Okay, hold on.

Hold -- almost.

♪ I am nobody's friend ♪

All right.

Okay.

[Gasps]

It's truly a masterpiece.

Yeah.

[Both laugh]

This is your Sistine Chapel.

Awww, hell.

I found a box of Miracle-Gro down there from 1982.

[Chuckles]

All right.

I'm done.

Done, I say.

[Sighs]

How about you and I do some actual living?

Hm?

[Paul and Paula's "Hey Paula" plays ]

♪ Hey, hey, Paula, I wanna marry you ♪

♪ Hey, hey, Paula, no one else could ever do ♪

♪ I've waited so long for school to be through ♪

♪ Paula, I can't wait no more for you ♪

[Laughs]

♪ My love, my love ♪

[Keyboard clacking]

Can't we cheat it?

Make it so we that we store recurrent Comet images in the user's Netscape cache?

It would make it load so much faster.

Yeah, I would, if Netscape supported that, but they don't, so...

Is the query box fixed?

Or does it still get a null response if you put a space before the carriage return?

Still on my punch list.

[Foot taps]

Joe, this is still an early beta.

So there's tons of bugs.

We don't know what they're gonna fix, how they're gonna fix it, how those fixes are gonna affect us.

Guess I should just shut up.

No, but could you just relax?

We've got tons of time.

We've got two days.

Yeah, we have two days.

Okay, here.

That looks worse than it did before.

I know. It's part of the...process.

[Inhales deeply, exhales]

Maybe you shouldn't watch how the sausage is made.

[Notebook slams]

[Pen slams]

[Computer dings]

Are you checking your e-mail?

What?

Nothing.

No, what?

What, am I not taking this seriously enough for you?

I didn't say that.

You didn't have to say it. You're acting like it.

We've got the cheat sheet to the exam.

We've won.

I just don't want to miss another opportunity.

Two days.

Two days. That's all I'm asking for.

Can you just focus long enough for us to get Comet optimized...

Oh, my God. ...so that it loads perfectly when Netscape ships.

I'm giving you my focus.

Jesus, I'm doing you a favor.

Who's the e-mail from?

[Scoffing] Are you...

Alexa.

Go ahead.

Read it.

[Sighs]

Oh, g--

It's the new beta.

Shall I thank her for you, or do you want to compose something that'll make her feel like a total shitbag for helping you out?

Give me a break.

[Computer chimes]

Okay.

Looks the same as the old one.

Yeah, the skin's the same. Let's see how she runs.

-Whoa. -Uhh...

That's way faster than I thought.

-Yeah. -Wow.

Hold on.

What, you can put text in fields before the page fully loads?

Really nice touch.

Okay, so they've got support for JPEG.

The formatting is perfect.

I'm gonna set a call with Jim Clark.

[Gasps] You know what we could do?

We could put a badge on our homepage saying "Optimized for Netscape."

And the gifs would render smoothly if --

Wait, wait...

What is that? That wasn't there before.

What the hell is Yahoo?

Two guys. Stanford. Used to be called

"Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web."

[Laughing] But...

This sucks. The design's terrible, there's no image support, they're --

On the toolbar.

What?

They're on the toolbar.

That's it.

They've won.

They're the directory to the Web.

We don't exist.

[Watch beeping]

Oh, God.

Come on.

[Beeping continues]

Joe.

Joe!

[Beeping continues]

[Beeping quickens]

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There's coffee.

I'm all right.

[Exhales deeply]

I wanted it to work.

I wanted us to work.

Yeah?

Me too.

It did.

For a while.

For a while.

Yeah.

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The thing that gets you to the thing.

Huh?

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It was you.

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It was always you.

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[Exhales deeply]

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[Applause]

Thank you. Thank you all.

Let's, uh, get right down to it, shall we?

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Hi.

Glad you reconsidered.

Mm-hmm.

I'm just going for the lobster thermidor.

Mm.

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Trip: ...and to circle back to Web search,

I got word that when Netscape launches this week,

Yahoo will be the default directory.

Got their own button and everything.

So Comet is pretty much kaput.

And --

Uh-- so, where does that leave Rover?

Should off-load it for parts, sell it on the B2B market.

Lucky for us, it's algorithm-based, so it actually has some value.

There's a -- What is it, Benji? It's a... medical indexing company that's actually expressed some interest, so...

We should probably look into that one and try to get 20% to 30% of value and --

Hey, go back.

What is Netscape's search directory called?

It's, uh...Yahoo?

[Scoffs] I'm sorry, what is it?

It's "Yahoo"?

Ya-hoo?

Yeah, Yahoo. Like, "Yahoo," with a... with an exclamation point.

Oh, Yahoo with an exclamation point, not a question mark?

'Cause you keep saying Yahoo with a question mark, so I was... -Okay.

Shouldn't it be more like...Yahoo!

[Chuckles]

Sure.

Come on. [Laughs]

Drill down with me now, Trip.

Yahoo!

Yahoo.

[Laughing] No, man! No!

[Laughing]

Oh, Jesus!

Now put some mustard on it, you know?!

Yahoo!

Yahoo!

There! Ya-hooooooooo!

[Laughing]

Ya-hooooooooo!

[Laughing]

Ya-hooooooooo!

[Laughing]

That's so...

[Laughing continues]

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