“The Billion Dollar Code” can now also be seen on Netflix and shows: In the past, people even doubted the Internet.
Terravision?
Ever heard
No?
Google it.
Or better not, it's a tricky business.
It's been 20 years since Google opened its first office in Germany, in Hamburg.
Perhaps it was computer nerds from Berlin who wrote a program in the nineties that made the company's global triumphant advance possible:
New on Netflix: Founders met ridicule in “The Billion Dollar Code”
Google Earth, with which you can fly to any corner of the world on your home computer, should work just like Terravision, developed many years earlier by Art + Com. The four-part German series “The Billion Dollar Code”, which the streaming service Netflix has now activated, tells about this and about the patent lawsuit filed by the Berlin Davids against the US Goliath. It's an exciting, well-equipped (The Nineties! In Berlin !!) production with a strong cast including Mark Waschke, Mišel Matičević and Lavinia Wilson. The story is told on two levels of time.
The audience experiences the Art + Com founders Carsten Schlüter and Juri Müller (both figures are a combination of several actual employees of the company) who are preparing for the trial against Google with their lawyers.
During these conversations, they look back again and again to the nineties, when they and their clique opened the door to the future in the newly reunified German capital - and at first met with a lot of ridicule.
“Internet?” Ask the arrogant Telekom bosses.
That will never prevail.
"We have studies at Telekom." They are "waterproof".
