Bill Gates

It's a very Cornell story.

It's a very Cornell story.

But it was this way for scientists to basically trade research and you're starting to get some cool entertainment use cases. But there's certainly no business or business interest or commercial. It's all just like the way that academics communicate with each other.

But it was this way for scientists to basically trade research and you're starting to get some cool entertainment use cases. But there's certainly no business or business interest or commercial. It's all just like the way that academics communicate with each other.

It's so funny. Microsoft history is told through a series of memos. Every milestone is some executive publishing a company-wide memo.

It's so funny. Microsoft history is told through a series of memos. Every milestone is some executive publishing a company-wide memo.

Oh, wow. I had no idea that was kind of the impetus of him taking it seriously. I mean, think back to everything we talked about in the last episode. The whole concept of Microsoft is founded on the idea that Moore's Law is a thing, and therefore we can develop software that people have never dreamed of that in just a few years will be usable.

Oh, wow. I had no idea that was kind of the impetus of him taking it seriously. I mean, think back to everything we talked about in the last episode. The whole concept of Microsoft is founded on the idea that Moore's Law is a thing, and therefore we can develop software that people have never dreamed of that in just a few years will be usable.

And so you get the opportunity to team up with an industry legend, of course.

And so you get the opportunity to team up with an industry legend, of course.

Yes. In retrospect, you've got to be looking at them thinking, how dense are you? Marc Andreessen is the person in the world who understands what a crazy exponential phenomena the internet is, the web is, what it can be. I mean, Marc had, I think by this point, already put the image tag into HTML so they can now send images that render in browsers.

Yes. In retrospect, you've got to be looking at them thinking, how dense are you? Marc Andreessen is the person in the world who understands what a crazy exponential phenomena the internet is, the web is, what it can be. I mean, Marc had, I think by this point, already put the image tag into HTML so they can now send images that render in browsers.

And when Jim Clark emails him, they decide to go do the information superhighway and not to do the internet.

And when Jim Clark emails him, they decide to go do the information superhighway and not to do the internet.

Meanwhile, it's hilarious that we keep talking about the information superhighway because it never happened. There were these little tests done with cable companies that would wire up 300 houses or something, but it never happened anywhere at any sort of scale.

Meanwhile, it's hilarious that we keep talking about the information superhighway because it never happened. There were these little tests done with cable companies that would wire up 300 houses or something, but it never happened anywhere at any sort of scale.

And so when you're listening to this and you keep trying to figure out like, sorry, what exactly was the information superhighway and like, what did it look like? Nobody knows because it never happened.

And so when you're listening to this and you keep trying to figure out like, sorry, what exactly was the information superhighway and like, what did it look like? Nobody knows because it never happened.

And the fact that even Mark himself didn't pound the table for, no, the internet's going to be the thing, that really shows you how the human brain is not wired to understand compounding. theoretically, this network should continue to get more nodes. The technology should evolve little by little. Moore's law is happening on the compute side.

And the fact that even Mark himself didn't pound the table for, no, the internet's going to be the thing, that really shows you how the human brain is not wired to understand compounding. theoretically, this network should continue to get more nodes. The technology should evolve little by little. Moore's law is happening on the compute side.