On the second day of the Los Angeles riots, Claudia Schiffer and Tina Fey were found coming out of Eric's bedroom early in the morning, but in the face of the ongoing riots in the city, none of the women left. Of course, the crusade eyes facing Eric must be indispensable, but they are basically ignored by Eric, and he can't poke a hole in his body anyway.

In the morning, the helicopter from the manor went back to Beverly Hills, and picked up a small spot, and with Emma, who was drilling around like a mouse in the villa, as a buffer, the atmosphere in the villa became gentle.

In order to protect privacy, Julia did not bring the nanny with her, perhaps to show her maternal side in front of Eric, the five women are very active in taking care of the little one, but obviously, none of them are good at taking care of children, take Julia as an example, think of Emma Roberts, who has the same personality as the little flying girl in the original time and space, you will know what level of education Julia is.

Although he had planned to leave Los Angeles, the riots lasted for three days without reaching Malibu, and Eric dismissed the idea and stayed in the villa without incident, and began to discuss the preparations of the three companies with Chris on the phone all day.

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

Chris then told Eric that he had contacted Tim Berners Lee himself. Tim Berners Lee is the originator and promoter of the concept of the World Wide Web. The so-called World Wide Web. That is, the predecessor of the Internet. Later sites on the web that began with 'www' were all 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 concerned about the project. A few years ago, Tim Berners Lee and others developed non-graphical web browser software, but when he realized that once the web browser was used commercially, it was likely that the web would be fragmented due to software standards and other issues, and finally abandoned the idea.

Eric soon realized the importance of Tim Berners Lee as a person. Tim Berners Lee is the chairman of the World Wide Web Consortium, and almost controls the power to formulate many technical standards in the early stage of the Internet.

Through Chris's introduction, Eric soon reached out to Tim Berners Lee himself by phone, and in the face of a professor at MIT, Eric's meagre computer knowledge had no room for extension, but fortunately he could see the future. He is well aware of the development trend of the Internet industry, therefore. The two had a great conversation on the phone, and Tim Berners Lee was impressed by many of Eric's ideas about the future of the Internet.

The two chatted for more than an hour, and at the end of the day, Eric invited Tim Berners Lee to Los Angeles to talk more about his thoughts on Internet Explorer (IE). What Eric didn't expect was that Tim Berners Lee was happier than him, and he directly agreed to come to Los Angeles this weekend, you know, Los Angeles is still in turmoil.

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

The Los Angeles riots are still going on, and it is the year of the US election, and Eric estimates that the most troublesome in his heart must be Bush Sr., because of the victory in the Gulf War, Bush Sr.'s voter support rate is much higher than that of his opponent, and the hope of re-election is great, but everyone knows that no matter what the outcome of the Los Angeles riots is, it is destined to affect Bush Sr.'s public approval rating. Eric couldn't help but think that Clinton's victory in the U.S. election by a small margin in the original time and space may have something to do with this very 'timely' riot.

On the third day of the Los Angeles riots, sporadic riots broke out in major cities on the east and west coasts of the United States, and the racial issue has always been the last thing that the US rulers are most unwilling to face.

At the same time, it was not until the third day of the riots 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, and California Governor Peter Wilson also asked the federal government for help in the name of the California state government, and the elder Bush ordered a large number of National Guard and Marines to go to Los Angeles.

Although the federal government did not send troops to quell the riots until the third day, which was criticized by a large number of media, in fact, many people knew in their hearts that this was also a helpless move by the Bush administration, and the riots just began at a time when public opinion was boiling, because of the misleading impression of the incomplete videotape, the proportion of citizens who believed that the four police officers who committed violence against Rodney King were as high as 90 percent. It is only when the chaos lasts for a few days and the people themselves realize that doing so will only harm their own interests, and then stop the riots to be effective.

While a large number of National Guard troops were taking to the streets to arrest people, Tim Berners Lee also came to Los Angeles. In order not to leave the MIT professor with a playboy influence (although this is the case), Eric temporarily sent several women out, leaving only Julia, and as for the reason, some little guy seemed to like it, and Wow Wow cried and refused to get into the car.

When a helicopter pulls up to the apron of Sharp Corner Manor, Eric is still holding the tearful little Emma in his arms.

A middle-aged man in his thirties with messy hair and sunken eye sockets got out of the helicopter and walked towards Eric with a smile, followed by Chris, who looked curious when he saw the little guy in Eric's arms.

"I'm so sorry, Mr. Lee. Just now the little guy cried. It's okay. Eric held little Emma in one hand and shook hands with Tim Berners Lee with one hand.

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

"No, it's not my child, it's actually ......" Eric pointed to Julia who was following him, and just as he was talking, little Emma, who was still sucking her fingers, called out, "Daddy." ”

Although this immature 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 line on his face, and little Emma reached out to Julia very neatly, and mended the knife: "Mom." ”

It must be Drew, it must be the bad thing that this little girl did, Eric clearly remembers that little Nizi has always been secretly teaching the little girl what to say with a picture frame in the past two days, but he didn't expect it to be these.

Although it is already the nineties, Westerners still generally feel that illegitimate children are a very humiliating thing, and many people are reluctant to admit illegitimate children, such as Steve Jobs or something. So the scene is a little awkward.

Eric felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart, and gently patted the little girl's buttocks. Only then did he hand it to Julia, who covered his mouth and snickered, and looked at Tim Berners Lee with a little disdain 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'm her father." ”

"What the hell is going on?" said Chris.

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

Chris also said at this time: "Oh, I remember, this incident was in the newspapers last year, and your brother's name seems to be Eric Roberts, right?"

Julia nodded.

Of course, it is impossible for Tim Berners Lee not to know Julia, and after hearing Julia and Chris's explanation, he also realizes that he has misunderstood Eric.

"So, don't stand here, let's go inside," Eric gestured please, wondering how to gesture to some messy little girl.

It was already noon, and after lunch, Eric took Chris and Tim Berners Lee to the glass wall of the seaside to talk about the graphical interface browser. Although Eric gave three plans, Chris only detailed the browser project to Tim Berners-Lee.

Although slightly shocked by the endless blue sky and blue sea outside the glass curtain wall, Tim Berners Lee quickly got into the groove and talked about the browser: " Eric, what I'm worried about is that once the graphical interface browser enters commercial operation and achieves good results, it will definitely attract other software vendors to join the competition, and each vendor will formulate its own network protocol rules for its own browser, and the website will definitely not adapt to all browsers, which will cause the Internet to be divided, and the reason why I didn't let the browser software we designed be commercialized a few years ago is to take these into account. I hope to be able to build a global unified information exchange network, rather than a scenario where the Internet is fragmented due to different network protocols. ”

Eric listened carefully to Tim Berners Lee's words, but felt that the other party was too idealistic, in this capitalist society, if there is 100% profit, capital can commit any evil, and the output value of the Internet will reach trillions of dollars in the future, such a piece of fat is not ideal to control.

Although Tim Berners Lee has been committed to the free promotion of the World Wide Web in the original time and space, but in the mid-nineties there was still a browser war between Netscape and IE, although Netscape Browser was finally out, but then, Google Chrome, Firefox appeared, although later everyone began to implement the free strategy, but IE has never been able to dominate the world.

It wasn't until Tim Berners Lee finished speaking that Eric asked, "Mr. Lee, having said all that, in fact, you want the graphical interface browser we developed to be free and open to users, right?"

"Yes, if the graphical interface browser can be made free for users, it will definitely increase the speed of the promotion of the World Wide Web," said Tim Berners Lee and raised his hand to the surroundings: "Look, Eric, you are already so rich, why don't you do something more meaningful?"

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

Tim Berners Lee wondered, "Eric, I don't quite understand, does this have anything to do with what we're discussing?"

Eric made a quiet gesture and said, "It took a few more years for feature silent films to appear, and it quickly became an industry, and in the twenties, there were sound films, in the forties, color films, in the sixties, 3D movies appeared, in the eighties, home videos appeared, and we all know that now more convenient DVD technology has been developed, what do you think is driving all of this?"

Tim Berners Lee wasn't a stilted nerd, and he could certainly hear what Eric was saying.

Eric smiled and continued: "It is the profit, because of the profit drive, the film technology will produce reform and development again and again, if there is no profit drive, then, what we see now, is likely to be the 1895 16 frames per second film played like a puppet-like silent black and white picture." ”

"Eric, I don't 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, I have the same goal as you, and I also hope that a unified network platform can appear, but our methods to achieve our goals are a little different, you hope to share it for free, and I hope to be able to, monopoly!"

Tim Berners Lee smiled and said, "Eric, I'm a little surprised by your candour. (To be continued......)