So It Goes

Halt and Catch Fire 4×1

Joe: What time is it there?
Gordon: They’re 17 hours ahead, so whatever time it is here...

Joe: It’s called Mosaic.
Gordon: All right, so there’s another browser in the game. We still got Nexus, Viola, Midas...

Joe: But those aren’t this. Inline images, Web forums support, available on every platform.

Joe: Hey, Gordon... happy 40th.

Cameron: Guys, this is not our target demographic. We need to be going after higher GPAs, readers with immersive fantasy and sci-fi interests... This isn’t a game you play. It’s a game you live.

Gordon: How many websites now?
Joe: 561. And I found a new one for you.
Gordon: Look, if this is the one that translates your name into Hawaiian, I already did it.
Joe: And?..
Gordon: Kolekona.

Joe: It’s a coffee pot. That is a coffee pot at he University of Cambridge, 5,000 miles away. That’s not a picture. That’s a live video feed.

Gordon: Have you seen Mosaic?
Cameron: I saw Mosaic.

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Gordon: Man, Donut Plains 3 is impossible.
Cameron: Battle mode?
Gordon: Yeah, you’re on. ... All right, you got to pick a guy... What, Toad? Really?
Cameron: Mm-hmm. He corners the best.
Gordon: Interesting.

Donna: Uh, have you seen Mosaic?

Cameron: Do you want to talk about what we’re really talking about?

Joe: I’ve got something. We can still be the door. Maybe it’s not a browser. In fact, it shouldn’t be. We’re gonna build a website that is accessible from any browser. Like a... Like a website of websites, an index of everything, like a directory.
Gordon: What, like the Yellow Pages?
Joe: Yes, but more than that.

Gordon: Isn’t that why God created hangovers... teach teenagers not to drink so much?

Gordon: ...he suddenly thinks he should index every website in existence.
Donna: How would you even do that?
Gordon: Trust me, he’s been meticulously building a list of URLs... by hand... for the last three years.
Donna: That sounds awfully tedious.

Gordon: Here’s to Mosaic... and the respective death of our competing browsers.

Donna: What’s growing? What can we apply the algorithm to that’s dynamic? We’re in the future business here. ....
Cecil: Uh, well, what about the Web? The... The number of websites has grown 500% this year alone. By next year, it could grow exponentially. At that point, the data pool’s theoretically limitless. We’d have to adjust the algorithm, but we could endeavor to index the entire Web, make it searchable.
Donna: And how would you index it?
Cecil: W-With the algorithm. It’d be fully automated and computerized. That means it’d be up to date almost instantly with every new site addition.
Donna: ... That’s it. That’s the idea.

Joe: Don’t tell me the reward for solving Enso puzzle was getting transported back to the beginning of the game.
Cameron: I’m afraid I’ve got some bad news for you.
Joe: Oh. So the Enso is a zero, and I’ve got to start over.
Cameron: Or maybe... it means everything. Now you can approach the path you’ve taken in an entirely new way.

Cameron: Do you want to hear this?
Joe: I want to hear whatever you want to tell me.

Joe: Uh, did you know that Bill Clinton is the president?
Cameron: Yeah. They love him in Japan. All those cheeseburgers. So, what else?
Joe: Um, the Cowboys won the Super Bowl. Audrey Hepburn died. And so did River Phoenix. Uh, some crazies tried to blow up the World Trade Center, and, uh... you can be gay in the military, but nobody can ask you about it, and you can’t tell anybody. Did you know IBM lost $5 billion?...

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