After lunch, Simon rushed to Santa Monica to start work in the afternoon.

Sending the man away, Catherine and Janet came to a living room on the second floor of the villa.

A girl named Claire brought the juice up, and Catherine whispered thanks. When the other party left, she asked Janet, who was leaning on the sofa and holding a thick folder, and said, "How can you put such a girl at home?"

Janet hummed and reached out, and when Catherine helped deliver the juice to her, she bit the straw and asked, "What's wrong?"

Knowing that this girl was asking knowingly, Catherine still said bluntly: "Aren't you afraid of Simon doing things randomly?"

"I really hope this happens," Janet said, aiming at the information on his knees, his lower eyes flashing, as if he was frustrated, "How good is Alison and the others young, beautiful, obedient. Unfortunately, in his eyes, it's just ABCD."

Katherine felt that she might have heard it wrong: “Hmm?”

Janet calmed down, looked up and grimaced at Catherine, and smiled and shrugged, "Nothing."

"You guys..." Catherine paused and tentatively said: "Is there any problem?"

"Of course not," Janet shook her head immediately and said, "You see it too. He will come back to have lunch with me and spend more time with me than before. This is the marriage status I want. Moreover, I am the second Westeros in the world now. Janet Westeros, are you envious?"

Catherine didn't answer, but was still looking at Janet.

During the lunch meal, Katherine could clearly feel the natural intimacy of Simon and Janet that had been clearly integrated into the married life.

Although he has never experienced marriage, Catherine also understands that this is a very healthy marriage state, which is much better than many couples who are so close that they are quickly cold and even part ways after a while.

However, Catherine still noticed some strangeness from it.

This strangeness comes from both Simon and Janet.

Moreover, the two strange things seem to be a little different, but Catherine can't explain clearly what's going on.

After a brief confrontation, Janet slightly collapsed her shoulders, put the juice in her hands and the documents on her knees aside, sat cross-legged on the sofa and said distressedly: "Hey, Kate, do you think he, well, likes women older than him, are there any problems?"

Catherine was stunned for a moment, thinking of herself, and her face turned slightly red, "You are older than him."

"I'm not pointing to you," Janet raised his hand and stretched out his index finger and gestured a few times in front of him, saying, "That's right, that's right, um, how can Simon like young and beautiful girls?"

Catherine looked at Janet for a moment, then suddenly leaned on the back of the sofa, took a sip of the juice, and said, "I suddenly felt that you should solve these problems yourself, don't ask me."

Janet bulged his cheeks in dissatisfaction and said, "You obviously asked first."

As he was speaking, Alison, who had just left, came in again and whispered to Janet: "Ms. Westeros, the people from Holland's office have arrived."

Jenny pulled Catherine up and said, "Calm's decoration of the villa next door, Kate, come and help me with advice."

Daenerys Entertainment Headquarters in Santa Monica.

Starting from 2 p.m., Simon spent three hours personally hosting the final round of auditions for several important supporting actors of "Batman: The Dark Knight".

Most of the protagonists in the "Batman" series have been confirmed. Before that, the core supporting roles of the second sequel, the actors of the Double-Faced Man, have been finalized, leaving only a group of supporting roles with few scenes.

However, due to the success of the first episode, even some characters who only play for two or three minutes in the sequel were highly competed for.

Simon did not intend to turn the sequels of "Batman" in the 1990s like Warner did in the original time and space to form a hodgepodge of stars. The more he seemed to rely on stars in the end, even Schwarzenegger brought in, and there were various obviously abrupt characters.

The result can be imagined that one is worse than another.

For casting, Simon's core concept is to choose the right one.

Although some human elements are not rejected, if someone chooses an unsuitable character because of this, or even wants to create a character out of thin air, it is absolutely impossible to pass Simon's level.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the audition was over, and Simon and his team held a brief meeting and returned to their office.

At five o'clock, it was far from getting off work for Simon.

Jennifer walked into the office with a thick stack of information. Simon was looking down at the next development plan of the Egret Company sent from San Francisco.

At present, Egret has completed all the necessary preparations for building the World Wide Web: a graphical interface browser that has been tested repeatedly, a complete hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) and hypertext markup language (HTML) solution, HTTP server software, website and web design software, etc.

In terms of hardware, with the joint efforts of SUN, Cisco and American Online, the server workstations, dedicated modems, routers and other devices have been developed from the server side to the client.

At the same time, recently, the predecessor of the Internet, which has been operating for more than 20 years, was officially separated from the Internet, consisting of major research institutions and universities in the world. A new Internet root server and domain name registration system have also been built, and the US government has completely opened up the commercial restrictions on the Internet.

It can be said that all the prerequisites for large-scale promotion of international Internet are already complete.

Only the east wind is lacking.

Based on the information collected at present and the information in Simon's memory, he probably remembers that in the original time and space, commercial Internet service providers gradually developed from 1990 to 1993, among which American Online is the best one.

At the same time, during this period, several charging networks similar to the World Wide Web were operating. Due to charging and shortage of content, they directly restricted the further expansion of the Internet.

It was not until 1993 that the various technologies of the World Wide Web were completely improved and it was announced that it would be free to develop externally, and the Internet finally began to take off.

Here we have to re-correct the concepts of the Internet and the World Wide Web.

The concept of the Internet appeared in the 1960s and 1970s and is a general term for all types of networks that use related network protocols to connect.

The World Wide Web prefers a technical application, a network connection mode built using technologies such as WWW, HTTP and HTML.

Therefore, the World Wide Web can only be considered part of the Internet. In the entire Internet world, in addition to the World Wide Web, there are also many application modes such as instant communication, email, online phone, online games, file sharing, etc. Because most of the other applications later were integrated into the Internet with the technology foundation of the World Wide Web, it is easy to be confused about the concept between the two.

But in fact, many other technologies are actually more important than those that appear on the World Wide Web.

For example, instant communication, the Bloomberg terminal, which has gradually become popular on Wall Street, uses instant communication technology, which is many years before the emergence of the World Wide Web.

For example, online games.

The predecessor of AOL was an "online game" operator. In 1983, several partners of AOL's predecessor worked with Time Warner to port some Atari's electronic games to a network server, and then use customized routers to connect to the client terminal and operate them in a paid form.

However, the online gaming company called CVC was in operation for less than a year before it went bankrupt due to the chain reaction of Atari's collapse.

During the chat with Steve Case, who has now become the CEO of American Online, Simon also found that the initial idea of ​​several CVC partners was not online games, but more advanced online music sharing.

The idea at that time was to cooperate with Warner Records to port the music of Warner Records to the Internet in a specific format, and users paid to download music from the Internet according to their own needs.

Unfortunately, this kind of overly advanced business idea was directly rejected by Time Warner, and a group of people "replaced with the next best".

Until Westeros, the predecessor of the United States Online, Quantum-Link, the main business of the company, was still very rough online games, of course, which also covers basic network access services.

Because the online content resources in the early stages of the Internet were extremely scarce, this is also the reason why American Online had to do so.

Otherwise, if the user accesses the network but doesn't know what to do, then American Online will not be able to continue operating.

Simon hopes that America Online will focus on the basic ISP (Internet Service Provider) business in the next few years, and then Igret will play the role of an Internet content provider, and will provide basic Internet equipment such as SUN and Cisco.

However, for the above reasons, this pure idea of ​​performing its own duties is actually difficult to practice.

In the early stages of the development of the Internet, Internet service provision must provide users with sufficient content in order to retain users.

Considering these, Simon also decided to prevent the teams of several companies from reconsidering the next development plan in the near future. The Westeros system has already taken a great advantage in the Internet field. Simon does not want this advantage to be squandered because of the unclear business strategy.

Making up his mind, Simon raised his head, opposite the desk, the female assistant kept a few folders at hand, and was quietly helping him organize the desktop.

A faint fragrance came, and Simon couldn't help but smile and clapped the female assistant, saying, "Come on."

Jennifer gave the man opposite a blank look: "No."

"Serious things, come here, let's talk."

The female assistant glanced at Simon suspiciously, hesitated for a while, but walked around the desk, and then Simon hugged her waist.

He was straight on the man, and the female assistant spoke with a little soft and coquettish voice, and said softly: "You are lying to others."

Simon put his face in front of the female assistant and smelled the scent of the woman. Until the woman in her arms gradually softened, she sat carefully on his lap, and asked, "How are you doing recently?"

"What, how about it?"

"I mean, Jenny and I are not here for this time?"

Jennifer pressed his little hand against the man's chest and supported himself, looking as if nothing had happened, and said, "It's great, my uncle is planning to introduce me to my boyfriend."

Simon said viciously: "It seems that I want to consider changing to a private lawyer."

"You are so domineering."

Simon immediately compromised and said, "Okay, then I won't change it."

The female assistant bent the corner of her mouth, raised her hand and gently stroked the man's cheek, her eyelashes trembled, kissed Simon's lips, and then stood up, saying, "I still have to work."

Simon let go of the female assistant and let her turn back to the opposite of her desk, saying, "I plan to go to San Francisco recently and have a good talk with the teams of Igrit and other companies about the World Wide Web. You can arrange it."

"Um."

"Also," Simon looked at the female assistant opposite and said, "When you go with me, we can have a few days alone."

This time, the female assistant did not respond immediately.

After handing over several documents that had just been sent to Simon, Jennifer raised his eyes and whispered: "Do you know, I miss the feeling we felt in the Park City cabin."

"Parker City?"

"Yes, the first and second year we met, we went to Park City to attend the Sundance Film Festival. You, me, and Jenny, the three of us gathered on the sofa by the fireplace. Outside the window was full of wind and snow, and it seemed that the whole world was only three of us."

Simon remembered that this should be the second time the three of them arrived in Park City.

The first year passed, and I just met for the first time, and the female assistant also brought her best friend Lisa Collins.

Recalling these, Simon thought for a while and said, "Finland is still very cold now. After getting Nokia, I bought a piece of land near Esborough to build a manor. It was probably completed. Maybe we can take the time to go there together, just the two of us?"

"No," the female assistant shook her head, lowered her eyes, and said, "You, you and Jenny just recently..."

"So, wait a few more months, maybe by July and August, the northern hemisphere is midsummer and the southern hemisphere is midwinter. Let's go to Tasmania, you know, I'm the big landlord there now. It's also very fierce in winter when it snows in Tasmania."

This time, the female assistant did not object anymore and nodded slightly, but the exposed neck that was hanging its head was already slightly pink.
To be continued...