I’m in Hollywood

On the second day of the riots in Los Angeles, although Claudia Schiffer and Tina Fey were found to be coming out of Eric's bedroom early in the morning, in the face of the ongoing riots in the city, there were no women. leave. Of course, the crusade eyes facing Eric are definitely indispensable, but they are basically ignored by Eric, and they can't poke a hole in the body anyway.

In the morning, the helicopter in the manor returned to Beverly Hills and picked up a little guy. With Emma, ​​who was biting around like a mouse in the villa, as a buffer, the atmosphere in the villa also changed. Be gentle.

In order to protect *, Julia did not bring the nanny with him, perhaps because she wanted to show her maternal side in front of Eric. All five women took the initiative to take care of the little guy, but obviously, none of them Take Julia as an example. If you think about Emma Roberts, who has the same personality as Little Feimei in the original time and space, you will know what level Julia's education is.

Although he had already planned to leave Los Angeles, the riots lasted for three days without reaching Malibu. Eric also dismissed the idea and stayed in the villa with nothing to do, so he began to discuss the situation with Chris on the phone all day. The preparation of the three companies.

At the time of the riots, Chris was recruiting staff for three companies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the early 1990s, two universities in the United States with the most advanced computer technology, one was Stanford University, Yahoo and Google and other famous Internet companies. The founders are all from Stanford University. The other is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The famous father of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Chris told Eric that he had contacted Tim Berners-Lee himself, who was the initiator and promoter of the concept of the World Wide Web. The so-called World Wide Web. That is, the predecessor of the Internet, and later websites starting with 'www' on the Internet are members of the World Wide Web Consortium.

Chris said on the phone that Tim Berners-Lee was very interested in the GUI browser, but at the same time Tim Berners-Lee was also full of concerns about the project. As early as a few years ago, Tim Berners-Lee and others developed non-graphical interface web browser software, but when he realized that once the web browser was used for commercial operations, it was likely that the software would standards, etc. Caused the fragmentation of the network, and finally abandoned the idea.

Eric soon realized the importance of Tim Berners-Lee. Tim Berners-Lee is the chairman of the World Wide Web Consortium, and he almost controls the formulation of many technical standards in the early stage of the Internet. If he can make friends with this person, he may go further. Bringing this person under his banner will make his layout in the high-tech Internet industry even more powerful.

Through Chris's introduction, Eric quickly got in touch with Tim Berners-Lee himself. Facing an MIT professor, Eric's poor computer knowledge had no room for expansion, but Fortunately, he can see the future and knows the development trend of the Internet industry like the back of his hand.

Therefore, the two had a very pleasant chat on the phone. Tim Berners-Lee applauds Eric's many ideas about the future of the Internet.

The two chatted for more than an hour. In the end, Eric invited Tim Berners-Lee to be a guest in Los Angeles. By the way, he talked in more detail about his thoughts on the Internet Explorer (ie) company. What Eric didn't expect was that Tim Berners-Lee was more cheerful than him. Directly agreed to come to Los Angeles this weekend, you know, Los Angeles is still in the midst of riots.

The other party was so eager, of course Eric would not object, and he also specially sent a private jet from Firefly Pictures to pick up people in Massachusetts.

The riots in Los Angeles are continuing, in the year of the U.S. election. Eric estimated that the most troubled heart must be Bush Sr., because of the victory in the Gulf War. Originally, Bush Sr.'s voter approval rate was much higher than that of his opponents, and he had a great chance of being re-elected, but everyone knew that no matter what the outcome of the Los Angeles riots, it was destined to affect Bush Sr.'s public opinion rating. Eric couldn't help but think that Clinton's victory in the US election with a small advantage in the original time and space may have something to do with this very timely riot.

On the third day of the riots in Los Angeles, sporadic riots also occurred in major cities on the east and west coasts of the United States, and racial issues have always been the last thing the American rulers want to face. Therefore, Bush Sr. can only avoid the important in his televised speech. rhetoric such as 'anarchism will not be tolerated' and not a word about ethnic conflict.

At the same time, it was not until the third day of the riot that a large number of Los Angeles citizens took the initiative to take to the streets to ask the federal government to quell the riots as soon as possible. California Governor Peter Wilson also asked the federal government for help in the name of the California state government. Bush then ordered a large number of citizens Guards and Marines marched to Los Angeles.

Although the federal government did not send troops to quell the riot until the third day and was criticized by a large number of media, in fact, many people understood that doing so was the Bush administration's helpless move. The video was misleading, and the proportion of citizens who believed that the four police officers who raped Rodney King was guilty was as high as 90%. At this time, sending troops to suppress it was tantamount to adding fuel to the fire. Only after a few days of chaos, the people themselves realize that doing so will only harm their own interests, and then stopping the riots will be effective.

When a large number of National Guard troops took to the streets to arrest people, Tim Berners-Lee also came to Los Angeles. In order not to leave a playboy influence on the MIT professor (although this is the case), Eric temporarily sent out a few women, leaving only Julia, as for the reason, or some small The guy seemed to like it here, and he was crying and not wanting to get in the car.

When a helicopter parked on the tarmac of Pointy Manor, Eric was still holding a tearful little Emma in his arms.

A middle-aged man in his thirties with messy hair and sunken eyes got off the helicopter and walked towards Eric with a smile. Followed by Chris, who was curious when he saw the little guy in Eric's arms.

I'm so sorry, Mr. Li, the little guy cried a while ago. I just coaxed him, Eric held little Emma in one hand and shook hands with Tim Berners-Lee.

Of course it doesn't matter, Tim Berners-Lee said with a smile, Eric, I didn't expect you to have children.

No, this is not my child, actually... Eric pointed to Julia who was following him. Just as she was talking, little Emma, ​​who was still sucking her finger just now, cried out, Dad.

Although this childish voice is still a little vague. But several people present could clearly hear what the little guy was shouting, and Eric wanted to explain with a black face. Little Emma easily stretched out her little hand to Julia and made up the knife: Mother.

Must be Drew. It must be the bad thing that the little girl did. Eric clearly remembers that the little girl has been secretly teaching the little girl what to say with the photo frame in the past two days. I didn't expect it to be this.

Although it is already the 1990s, Westerners still generally feel that illegitimate children are a very shameful thing. Many people are reluctant to admit illegitimate children, such as Steve Jobs, so the scene is a bit embarrassing.

Eric felt a sense of powerlessness deep in his heart, and lightly patted the little girl's butt before handing it to Julia, who was covering her mouth and snickering. Looking at Tim Berners-Lee with a little contempt in his eyes, Eric knew that the other party must think that he was a guy who was unwilling to take responsibility, and helplessly spread his hands: Okay. I am her father.

What the hell is going on here? Chris also came over at this time.

Holding Emma in her arms and shaking it, Julia saw the expressions of Tim Berners Lee and Chris, so she took the initiative to explain for Eric: Mr. Lee, this is actually my brother's daughter. , After his girlfriend gave birth to the child, neither of them were willing to raise him, so I adopted him.

Chris also said at this time: Oh. I remember it, it was in the newspaper last year. Your brother seems to be called Eric Roberts, right?

Julia nodded.

Of course, Tim Berners-Lee couldn't have not known Julia. Hearing Julia and Chris' explanation, he also realized that he had misunderstood Eric.

Then, don't stand here, let's go in, Eric made a gesture of invitation, while thinking about how to gesture to a little girl who made trouble.

It was already noon. After lunch, Eric brought Chris and Tim Berners-Lee to the glass curtain wall facing the sea and talked about the graphical interface browser. Although Eric gave three plans, Chris only detailed the browser project to Tim Berners-Lee.

Although he was slightly shocked by the endless blue sky and blue sea outside the glass curtain wall, Tim Berners-Lee quickly entered the state and chatted about the browser: Eric, what I'm worried about is , once the graphical interface browser enters commercial operation and achieves good results, it will definitely attract other software manufacturers to join the competition, each manufacturer will formulate its own network protocol rules for its own browser, and the website will certainly not be able to adapt to all Browsers, this will cause the Internet to be fragmented. A few years ago, the reason why I did not commercialize the browser software we designed was because of these considerations. I hope to build a global unified information exchange network, not because Scenarios where the internet is torn apart by differences in network protocols.”

Eric listened carefully to Tim Berners-Lee's words, but he felt that the other party was too idealistic. In this capital society, if there is 100% profit, capital can commit any crime, and the future output value of the Internet It will be in the trillions of dollars, and such a piece of fat is not ideally manageable.

Although the original time and space Tim Berners-Lee has been committed to the free promotion of the World Wide Web, the browser war between Netscape and ie still occurred in the mid-1990s. Although the Netscape browser was finally out, but then again Google browser and Firefox browser appeared. Although everyone started to implement the free strategy later, IE has never been able to dominate the world.

It wasn't until Tim Berners-Lee finished that Eric asked, Mr. Lee, after talking so much, you actually want the graphical interface browser we developed to be open to users for free, right?

Yes, if the graphical interface browser can be free for users, it will definitely greatly increase the speed of promotion of the World Wide Web, said Tim Berners-Lee, raising his hands around him: Look, Eric, You're already so rich, why not do something more meaningful?

Eric smiled, picked up the coffee pot on the table to refill some coffee for Tim Berners Lee, and said, Mr. Lee, I'm making movies, so let's take movies as an example. Edison After the invention of the camera, the first black and white silent film The Factory Gate appeared in about 1895. It was a short film played at a speed of 16 frames per second. Because the technology was very rough, the people in the picture looked like like puppets.

Tim Berners-Lee wondered: Eric, I don't quite understand. Does this have anything to do with what we discussed?

Eric made a calm gesture and said, It took a few years for feature-length silent films to appear, and soon formed an industry. In the 1920s, sound films appeared again. Four In the 1900s, color movies appeared, in the 1960s, 3D movies appeared, in the 1980s, home video tapes appeared, and as we all know, the more convenient DVD technology has been developed, and you think the factors driving all this are what?

Tim Berners-Lee is not an old-fashioned nerd, and of course he can understand the meaning of Eric's words.

Eric continued with a smile: It's interests, because of the drive of interests, film technology will have reforms and development again and again, if there is no drive of interests, then what we see now is probably still the kind of 1895. Puppet-like silent black-and-white images at 16 frames per second.”

Eric, I do not refuse companies to make profits, I just hope that everyone can reduce some differences and build a unified information exchange network platform that can coexist with each other.

Eric nodded and said: Mr. Li, in fact, my goals and yours are the same, and I also hope to have a unified online platform, but our methods to achieve our goals are a little different. You want to share them for free. , and I want to be able to, monopoly!

Tim Berners-Lee smiled and said, Eric, your frankness surprised me a little. (To be continued)