Casey Newton

And what I wish I had said at the time was, has it ever even occurred to you to ask me a fun question, PJ? You know, I listen to your other episodes and the guests get to be like, hey, why don't you walk me through the history of balloon animals? Like, I would do that too. But no, it's like, oh, hey, Casey, another piece of the internet is falling into the ocean.

Do you want to come gawk at the wreckage with me? So that's on you, PJ.

Do you want to come gawk at the wreckage with me? So that's on you, PJ.

Do you want to come gawk at the wreckage with me? So that's on you, PJ.

Well, likewise, likewise.

Well, likewise, likewise.

Well, likewise, likewise.

90 percent of the company's 770 employees signed a letter threatening to leave unless the current board of directors resigned and reinstated Altman as head of OpenAI.

90 percent of the company's 770 employees signed a letter threatening to leave unless the current board of directors resigned and reinstated Altman as head of OpenAI.

90 percent of the company's 770 employees signed a letter threatening to leave unless the current board of directors resigned and reinstated Altman as head of OpenAI.

If this airs, will I be the first returning three-time champion on Search Engine?

If this airs, will I be the first returning three-time champion on Search Engine?

If this airs, will I be the first returning three-time champion on Search Engine?

I'm a dark horse, just like that one Katy Perry song.

I'm a dark horse, just like that one Katy Perry song.

I'm a dark horse, just like that one Katy Perry song.

So PJ, when the internet was young and exciting, it was just a series of webpages, famously delivered over a series of tubes. And these webpages were so vast in their number that to find them, we needed a box we could type into. And there were many boxes with names like Excite and Hotbot and Infoseek.

So PJ, when the internet was young and exciting, it was just a series of webpages, famously delivered over a series of tubes. And these webpages were so vast in their number that to find them, we needed a box we could type into. And there were many boxes with names like Excite and Hotbot and Infoseek.

So PJ, when the internet was young and exciting, it was just a series of webpages, famously delivered over a series of tubes. And these webpages were so vast in their number that to find them, we needed a box we could type into. And there were many boxes with names like Excite and Hotbot and Infoseek.

But one day, a couple of Stanford grad students come along with this thing that is better at searching these webpages than anything we've seen before, and it's called Google. And basically from the minute anyone sees it, people are saying, this is the one. They've come up with some really clever stuff that helped them find webpages better than anything else.