our mind to it, whether it was the first world war, the second world war or the cold war, we have an enemy. and the enemy are the terrorists who do not believe in what we do, open societies and freedom. they're out to kill plain, innocent people. we have to understand -- >> it is a war. >> -- that this is a sustained effort. in the ninety, we're going to revolutionize human communication. >> you've got mail. >> what is the worldwide web. >> in the world of computers, it's kill or be killed. >> please welcome bill gates. >> you have a monopoly. >> check out windows 95. >> this is i mac. >> it's a technological revolution that's changing every way we do everything. >> so will a technological tidal wave.

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device. it was a brick. and it let you do amazing things you have never been able to do before, but it was essentially a productivity tool. >> now that we have all these very powerful tools, we're still islands. we're still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. >> apple was in a period of decline. steve jobs had a temper tantrum and went off and started a company called next. after he left, there was a sequence of pretty boring, unimaginative corporate leadership that followed him. >> why did you leave apple? >> i was asked to leave. i was asked to leave apple. i was planning on spend the rest of my life there. >> steve jobs was a genius, but one of the reasons he got moved out of his job is because he was spending huge amounts of money on projects that, for the most

part, never reached the market. and apple had a crisis of confidence. >> at a time when major computer corporations like apple are laying off 10% of their workforce, microsoft is the big exception in the computer industry. >> people didn't get how much value there was, but the operating system could be the most valuable piece of real estate in the computing business with something not understood apart from bill gates. >> today we're introducing microsoft windows version 3. >> bill gates, part thomas edison, part henry ford, at 19 he dropped out of harvard to design computer software with his friend paul allen. they came up with a system that operates 90% of the personal computers today. >> microsoft was making a lot of

money then. they were charging $400 for, say, a word processing package that really was costing them about 50 cents to print on floppies. >> hard working, modest, easy going, it would seem to a fault. of course, he does have at least one secret. but we'll fix that. >> is it true you can leap over a chair from a standing position. >> it depends on the size of the chair, but this chair, probably so. >> yes! >> i took a step before i did it. >> that's okay. >> bill gates wasn't just one thing. he was a brilliant guy, great parents, value families, but he was a killer. he basically was a ruthless guy. so was microsoft. >> somebody is confused. somebody is just not thinking. there's no way. >> we'll figure it out. >> you guys never understood the first thing about this. >> a lot of people make the

analogy that competing with bill gates is like playing hardball. i'd say it's more like a knife fight. >> i have never heard any of these things. you're saying knife fight. that's silliness. it's childish. why be a mouthpiece for that kind of silliness. i'm done. >> can i ask you one more question? >> i don't think so. >> i remember one time interviewing gates and i said, microsoft owns the world right now. you worry about that? he said i worry about that every single night. i go to bed thinking what have i not thought about. >> now it's starting to dial. now i am in. >> it spans the globe like a super highway. it's called internet, the net.

>> back in 1969 it was a tool of the pentagon. but nowadays just about anyone with a computer and a modem can join in. >> the internet was really dorky, hard to use and extremely nerdy thing. none of your friends would have been on this. >> the internet really was not a huge factor in the early '90s. but net skap changed things. >> they are calling him the next bill gates. 24-year-old mark andreessen helped start a company called net skap. the company's stock went public and wall street b went bonkers. so what does net skap produce? this, the navigator, software which makes it easy pr people to connect called the internet. >> microsoft has a long history of feeling threatened by hot new upstarts. you could ease ily argue that bill gates' game plan was world

domination. >> these guys can be taken. but the only way we're going to take them is by studying them. know what they know, do what they do, watch them. take every one of their good ideas and make it one of our good ideas. >> microsoft cake down and said to netscape, we can be friends or enemies. if we're going to be friends, that's great. you'll be on the home screen of a lot of computers or we can compete. we're going to basically do whatever is required to kill you. >> sosm people believe you have an appetite for power. you are the embodiment of a button in the 1980s that said i want it all and you want to eat up your competitors. is that unfair? >> it doesn't ring ay bells with me.

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people. prodigy was for shopping. aol was the firsz one to have the vision to get everyone connected. when i heard that sound, i cried a little bit because i knew there was a big adventure waiting for me. >> welcome, you've got mail. >> it was like a taxicab. aol's invention was to charge $had 19.95 a month all you can eat. now you could afford to be on the intent all you wanted. >> you didn't have to be a researcher. you could dial on to aol. it was designed to be point and click. >> steve case is the president of america online. i interviewed him via computer. >> what are the most popular online features now? >> he responds the real focus for us is on promoting interactivity. >> what's the best thing? to be able to communicate with just about anyone, anywhere. >> is one of the thing it is a

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>> values around $700 million even though the company is barely profitable. >> with the success of netscape and the growth of the upstarts, yahoo! it was this energy that was not all in seattle. >> silicon valley versus what's going on in washington. it's more mankind versus microsoft. so silicon valley is one against the evil empire to the north. >> this is silicon valley. here microsoft is respected and feared as a powerful giant whose every footstep sends shivers through the entire industry. >> there's this emerging war basically between the silicon valley culture built up around the web and the microsoft culture in redmond. it's not just a cultural glacla but an technological clash for power. >> bill gate hs to turn microsoft around to have it

address the internet in the way they did that was by coming up with internet explorer chrks they presented as the world's best browser. it wasn't. microsoft's stuff never is the best, but it was well marketed and it was pushed and they had a lot of money behind it. >> here came microsoft with its own version of a web browser built into windows '95. their intention was to kill netscape as the browser and make internet explorer its replacement. >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. >> a consumer feeding frenzy. many computer stores like this one in miami opened at the stroke of midnight so customers could be the first to get their hands on windows 95. >> check out window ss 95. >> it seems like an awful lot of fuss over a single product, but the product will have a huge impact not just on microsoft, but on the global computer

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and netscape and microsoft duke it out. it's a spectator sport. >> in the mid-1990s apple had a couple more ceos. as a result the company did worse and worse as the decade progressed. >> with bog losses in the last quarter, with profit margins shrinking, apple seems decembst for a takeover. this is a computer that even has fan clubs. >> i just love the apple. i always have. i can't say why. >> everyone was rooting for ap toll survive, but it wasn't clear that apple would be around at the end of the 1990s. >> the troubled apple computer company may return to its core in an effort to boost sagging sales. apple will name steve jobs as its new chairman. he was ousted earlier this month. >> steve came over to apple, sold next to apple for $400 million. he had no ambitions at apple at all. but steve jobs was watching apple flounder, and he just

couldn't help himself. so he remade the company the way he wanted. there was no one to oppose him because the company was exhausted. >> steve jobs had exactly the abrasive but incisive personality that apple needed at that point. they need ed someone to come in say kill that project, kill that project, that's stupid, consolidate that, focus the company. >> i'd like to announce one of our first partnerships today, a a meaningful one. that's one with microsoft. we're very, very happy about it. we're very excited about it. i happen to have a special guest with me today via satellite down link. >> i don't think steve jobs has ever experienced before or after

that people just going, boo, no. >> microsoft represented everything that these hard core apple fans hated. >> if we want to move forward, apple healthy and prospering again, we have to let go of a few things here. we have to let go of the notion that for ap toll win, microsoft has to lose. >> there was an alliance now between these two former arch rivals. and microsoft was going to invest $150 million in apple, but more important from bill gates, apple would include microsoft's browser in all macintoshs. that was the last piece. he had domination of the browser world. >> internet explorer makes it easier to get around the web. but when you hit a button to access services from travel and entertainment, news and the like, you find sites owned by microsoft. >> that's what the government is worried abts. over the next few years,

americans may be buying millions of dollars in goods and services through the internet. that's a market too important, the government says, for one company to act as gate keeper. >> the justice department asked a federal court to fine microsoft corporation a record $1 million a day. >> the complaint against microsoft came from executives at netscape, a fast-growing software company that struck gold with its browser, but microsoft began giving away their browser and required to offer it with windows. >> they are able to illegally, we believe, use that power to block competition. they are able to pay people to not youz our software. >> a lot of people are saying the antitrust laws are vooutvot. the counterargument is that when you begin to get lots of people to use your operating system, it becomes harder and harder for somebody else to break in to

that industry. >> bill gates goes before congress for the first time today. gates is expected to face tough questions from the senate judiciary committee. >> i want to, if you don't mind, ask the audience one question. how many of you use intel-based pc nz this audience. raise your hand. of that group who use pcs, how many without microsoft's operating system. gentlemen, that's a month nopol. that's 100%. >> it is fair to say that when you compete with people, you think, hey, we're going to have a better product. we're going to win the customer. we're going to do a good job on these things. >> the hearing makes clear to most people, oh, so that gates guy he's not just like kind of a good-natured geek in glasses, he's another capitalist. >> police and security guards in belgium were caught flat flooded by a sneak attack on one of the

world east wealthiest men. >> it's been a bad week for microsoft and its bill gates. yesterday at the chicago debut of his much-awaited windows 98 system the program crashed. >> you'll notice that this scanner -- >> it's shaping up as one of the antitrust battles of the industry. federal and state governments today sued microsoft saying the software giant is predatory and scheming to crush all competition. >> microsoft used its monopoly power to develop a choke hold on the browser software needed to access the internet. >> i don't think bill gates recognized the seriousness of the situation. this was a case that simply wasn't going to go away. >> worst case, they will ask us to create a crippled product and that would be too bad. that would hold us back. we're quite confident that won't happen.

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it's been ten months since a new management team took over at apple. because of their hard work, i'm really pleased to report to you today that apple is back on track. and today i'm incredibly pleased to introduce i mac, our consumer product. this is imac. >> the imac was a computer that was meant to look like something you would want people to see in your house. it ushered in this new era where design started to matter. >> the imac was sexy.

i had a blue one. it had curves. it was built like a sports car. when people think of computers, they think of boring. apple made it fun. >> you can take it home, take it out of the box and be cruising the internet within ten minutes. that's not something you can do on if i other computer you know of. >> he added software to make it easier to connect to then internet. >> it changed how people thought of apple and changed how people perceived what had been a a dying company suddenly people saw there was a spark here. >> in the world of computers, it's kill or be killed. the original wiz kid was thought to be dying an early death, but guess what. mac is back. >> a year ago nobody would have predicted this. steve jobs, the head man at apple computer, hail ed as the hero who brought the company back from the verge of extinction. >> imac has become the number

one selling computer in america. >> he represents that entrepreneur that it steve jobs represents the artist. >> you can say what you want about steve jobs, but he knew how to make people believe. >> in federal court in washington, d.c. today, a case of legal hardball and computer software. the u.s. government set out to prove that computer industry giant microsoft tried to bully the competition illegally into submission or out of business. >> as microsoft and justice department lawyers came to battle at the courthouse, a bill gates impersonator showed up. inside the courtroom, the real bill gates on videotape under oath in a deposition taken in august. >> the thing about a deposition is that the only thing that the witness can really do is to sit there and tell the truth simply and directly. the first two hours of the deposition was quite unexpected.

>> from the stuff you have given me -- >> i'm asking if you have one. >> what do you mean by internet softwa software? >> this person who i know is brilliant and articulate and passionate is withdrawn, playing word games, being evasive, doing everything that makes him look like he's not confident in his position. >> you recognize this is a document produced from microsoft's files. do you not, sir? >> no. >> you don't? >> how would i know that? >> the famous litigator has a photographic memory. he would ask gates, do you remember saying this? no, i would never say something like that. >> boys without notes would say would you call up this document. >> did you know microsoft people were meeting with netscape before they met? >> i don't recall knowing in

advance. >> government lawyer david boiz revealed an internal memorandum written by gates three weeks before that meeting. i think there's a powerful deal of some kind we can do with netscape. we could pay them money as part of the deal, buying some piece of them or something. >> when i covered the trial, one of the things the judge said to me is he didn't believe bill gates. . that deposition was very instrumental in shaping the judge's decision. >> i have never seen a stamp like that or used a stamp like that. >> haven't you seen stamps like that in every single one of the documents you have been shown during this deposition. >> can you get me all of the exhibits? >> just a waste of time. >> it is a waste of time. >> technology is hard to understand. >> their pitch to the judge was trust us. we're doing what we're doing for the consumer. the deposition made him and the company look like they were not

trustworthy. >> because this deposition and the snippets of it that played out day after day on national television, it was an incredibly pe sip us to decline in how most people viewed bill gates. >> he was an environment that unlike almost every other environment he operates he did not control. >> no witness controls a deposition. no matter how rich, how powerful, every witness has to sit there and answer questions. >> in words surprisingly blunt, the judge declared microsoft a monopoly. lawyers from the justice department in the 19 states that sued microsoft immediate ly claimed victory. >> microsoft is a monopolist and engaged in massive anti-competitive practices. >> it drove bill gates crazy that the government was p portraying him as some kind of evil force. was he ruthless as a businessman, yes. did he see himself as ruthless businessmanman, no. he saw himself as someone

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>> stop sweating. >> the adult industry was very interested in figuring out how to make credit cards work. that had benefits for online commerce. it boosted consumer acceptance of online credit card use. >> our little shopping carts that we now use are invented by important pornographers. what was unknown whether somebody could set up a website and actually make money. and the proof of concept of that was porn ography. >> for the most part, entrepreneurs have not figured out a way to make profit on the internet. that is until ebay came along. >> the auction site was started as a hobby. three years later it has a market value close to $6 million and is a superstar on wall street. they that i can money by charging to list an item and takes a percentage of the selling price if it sells. >> if you have an item you want to sell like a 1967 green hornet lunch pale, you write up a brief description, add a digital photo

and decide ob an opening bid. >> ebay changed everything, and not because what they were offering was so incredible and revolutionary, essentially what they were doing was they were automating the middle man. >> 600 million hits a month. that's a lot of people. how do you stop the unscrupulous? >> problems like that are very rare on ebay. it's based on trust. >> one thing ebay pioneered is the idea we rate each other. so future participants can see whether you're a good person to deal with or not. it's in your financial interest to be looked up to and respected as a trustworthy transactional partner. >> we're going to talk about the superstars of the sock market. those red hot internet stocks. companies that in some cases didn't exist a few years ago traiding in the stratosphere. >> the dot com wubl.

was based on this idea of what counted was eyeballs. if you could get enough people using your stuff, you would figure out a way organically from that to make a profit. >> the daily volume, 3.7 million shares. we are almost at $2 billion company. >> people love these stocks. anything that has dot com or net in the name goes like hot cakes. >> it's the earth's biggest bookstore. not just the country, but the earth's. but you can't shop there unless you have a computer. it's a virtual bookstore. >> books, books and more books. that's what they do at amazon.com. >> if you were to print the catal catalog, it would be the size of seven new york city phonebooks. >> jeff bezos looked at what the internet could be and decided it it could be anything. >> bezos started amazon.com at this home in seattle in 1994. less than five years later, his idea of sell issing books on

internet has grown into a multibillion dollar r business. >> the largest physical bok stores only kpaer 175,000 titles. amazon.com has 2.5 million catalogs. there's no way to have that physical bookstore. >> bezos understood it couwould decades to create this infrastructure of shape shipping and warehouses. >> he has an idea of abandoning the retail business. >> what's often said about your company. you're losing money b. >> i can tell you that i think it's good we're losing money right now. it's important to amazon.com in the long-term. >> wed like to know what day it is. >> you can't be the everything store unless you're absolutely gigantic. bezos' philosophy was to get big fast. earning money, making a profit, that will come later. for now, let's become the 800-pound gorilla. >> more and more people are going to be shopping online.

it's more convenient because you have unlimited selection. the convenience is is the year that shopping becomes of age ob the internet. >> this was a time that allowed you to make choices without gatekeepers choosing things for you. you could decide. i want that and you'd get it. 37 if you don't live in a big city, you can get big city stuff. >> the worldwide computer network called the internet has inspired more movies than any big deal fad since the cb radio boom. the internet itself is definitely explodeexploding. >> within two years it's become so powerful. >> we're sitting on the most perfect beach in the world and we can think about where can i hook up. >> in 1999 we are culturally, socially, financially quite dependent on the internet. >> in washington today a special senate committee is preparing to release a report on the

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intensive preparation for that moment. >> it was a big deal, a lot of energy spent, a lot of fear. big nothing. >> good afternoon. microsoft was founded 25 years ago. and i've had the same job as ceo during that entire 25-year period. today steve is going to step up to a new role and he will be ceo of microsoft. >> by the time this trial was over, microsoft wound up settling, but microsoft was really, really chastened in the end by that long, gruelling case. >> does the government's case against microsoft have anything to do with this change in leadership? >> no, absolutely not. if anything, this change underscores what a dynamic, competitive business we have. but it's not at all related. >> bill gates had been very successful. he had enormous amount of money.

he may very well have thought that given what he had already accomplished, the highest and best use of his remaining years was to spend that money helping humanity. >> it was just a few months back. if your company ended in dotcom, it was a good thing, but at the end of this brutal week on wall street, a lot of analysts think the internet bubble is ready to burst. by this time next year a huge dotcoms might be gone. >> a year ago so many investors were eager to buy into the internet they were ignoring traditional measures of success. >> but reality has now set in. >> these upstarts didn't have any income. they're saying, we are worth millions of dollars. where's the revenue? didn't have any. >> when the venture capitalists stopped putting in, you could time the bubble. you could say, yeah you know, if we all believe this fantasy, it works. if some of us stop believing,

it's a prelude to its failure. >> most dotcom startups will be out of business next year, eliminating 25,000 out of 30,000 internet companies. >> what sort of message do you have for all of us as we look at what's happening to the dotcom businesses and the stock market? >> don't invest in dotcoms? >> the internet opened up a lot of things for people. it made things easier for people. that didn't change. bubble or no bubble. >> with more than a billion web pages out there, millions of websites out there on the internet, it's no wonder the most common activity is searching. there hasn't been much new in the search engine until something called google came along. >> a traditional search engine will take your search terms and say, oh, what pages have those search terms on them? maybe how many times they occur? doing the goes way beyond that. google will say, what do other web pages about this?

>> google captured the entire web and they made a map of what linked to what and found things with an accuracy that no one imagined would be possible. >> turned out google rather than netscape was the one that eclipsed microsoft. by the end of the decade, netscape was gone but microsoft was taken over by what bill was concerned about being taken over by. netscape and google are part of same thing. >> the rate of change in our lives has grown faster and faster. the zeros and ones of computer language are literally transforming every part of our lives. >> you have the little ones running around, to go to my computer and grocery shop, it's incredible to be able to do that. >> a world of caring, concerned people. >> once you become familiar with it, it becomes a friend. companion. >> you have a sense of possibility that geography used to deny you.

without moving yourself. the world would come to you. >> any student could instantly call or text pictures from smithsonian or tap into a super computer from nasa. a special is at a city hospital could help patients at small rural clinics anywhere. >> the weapon is exciting because it's the fulfillment of a lot of our dreams that the computer would ultimately not be primarily a computation but met mother sisz into communication. >> it's the equivalent of industrial revolution, equivalent to electricity. >> when we look back 100 years fro now, this is the point we'll say everything changed. >> i wasn't prepared to translate as i did that tease. >> that's right. >> the mark with the "a" and the ring around it. >> at. >> that's what i said. >> kay said she thought it was about. >> oh. >> but i've never heard it said. i've only seen the mark but

never heard it said and then it sounded stupid. violence@nbc. what is internet anyway? do you write to it like mail? >> a lot of people use it and communicate. i guess they can communicate with nbc, writers and producers. allison, can you explain what internet is? xxxx' my first announcement is one i think you've all been waiting for. >> politicians have been lying and bull [ bleep ] and flip-flopping since the beginning of time. >> only i need to understand. >> i'm mostly pissed off that not enough people are pissed off. >> politicians are very visible. they tend to be liars, which is great so you can really go after them. i [ bleep ] hate those [ bleep ]. >> it's making my angry and