Chapter 34: Jumping into Web

Because of his remarks to the media, Sunny had to avoid going out most of the time during the Woody Allen crisis and he felt his life turned monotonous and boring.

There were things that would pop up occasionally like signing a TV-series deal with a TV station for Pokemon or signing some singers to sing the theme songs but apart from that, Sunny was mostly spending his time dealing with banks and financial institutions to find investment targets in the global entertainment market.

The most frustrating thing for Sunny was all of this information that should be on the internet was really really hard to find.

Besides, the internet is almost unorganised, everything is presented in form of long boring articles and text files. And to use a browser, you must have basic coding ability.

You can't just use a mouse to navigate a simple webpage. There was nothing like that except one browser that Sunny had never heard about before.

Sunny initially thought that browsers will appear in 1994 or 1996 something but looking at this particular browser, Sunny had an idea he couldn't push out of his brain.

"Alicia, can you please come to the office?" He called his secretary and then he started checking the 'ERWISE' web browser. For those who have experience with Chrome, they would feel this is a very ugly looking, something kids in college designed but this is a revolutionary idea in 1992.

"Yes, Sir?" Alicia walked inside the office and Sunny showed her the browser.

"Can you help me find who developed this browser? Where are those guys and if they are interested in selling me this?" Sunny gave her a simple task and sent her away.

Alicia after spending so much time with Sunny, had developed her own good contacts in the media and called some journalists who were writing for the 'science and technology' section.

Then through the provided information, she dug out the creators of this browser and all of the creators were actually four Finnish students at the Helsinki University of Technology.

Who knew Finland college students actually designed the most advanced browser in the market!

Sunny personally made a trip to meet these guys as he became interested in buying and developing this browser.

There is no Chrome, no Firefox or even the basic Internet Explorer and he believed this was the perfect time to start an internet company than to invest in the stock market. All major internet companies would actually go into the dot-com bubble between 1995-2000 and he believed his initial investments might give him 10 times or 100 times the profit if he manages to play his card properly.

So, in mid September, Sunny took a solo trip to Finland to meet these four founders and they happily agreed to sell this browser and all of its documentation for under 10,000 US dollars. Just 10,000 US dollars and Sunny could own this browser.

This is not surprising considering that Finland was going through depression and 10,000 US dollars would basically turning them into rich kids overnight.

However, the trouble came when Sunny checked the documents and found everything in Finnish! Even the smallest button that was designed (and was not even responsive) was coded in Finnish.

Also, they were not keen on either developing this further as three of the four developers had gotten steady jobs in Tekla, the software company, or were interested in doing independent work.

Sunny finally thought of a better idea. He called Matthew in Merrill Lynch and got him to register a company in Silicon Valley.

The Company - 'Rover Net' was established ( on paper) and Sunny hired the four developers and bought their browser for 10,000 US dollars.

Because of the sudden offer of a salary of 4,000 US dollars and additional living expenses per month, these four kids simply put their request applications to quit their university.

Sunny went back to America and checked with Matthew. Rover Net was just registered but Sunny had asked Matthew to find an office space with dorms for him.

Matthew gave him a few foreclosed building addresses that were in the South San Francisco Bay Area of California or more specifically in Silicon Valley.

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Sunny didn't choose any commercial property but chose to buy a small private college building that was up for sale. This is mainly because those Finnish guys need a place to stay and they promised to bring in more of their classmates to their new company.

This small university went under the bank after Police and FBI found it a part of money laundering and fake degree scam that was running in the country. Sunny gladly purchased it with 70% of his own money and 30% of the loan amount from Merrill Lynch.

15 days later, four Finnish boys plus a team of 10 other students from a couple of different universities made this place their base and were ready to code the better version of their browser.

After the boys settled down and a local temp agency arranged workers for cleaning and other stuff, Sunny started their browser development program.

The first task was to translate all documentation into English and the second was to make sure, all buttons actually worked.

Sunny also shifted his office here in the initial days and let Kenneth, COO of Rover Pictures handle the work there. Alicia also came here and found herself surrounded by horny hot Geeks all day.

Horny and hot but still Geek and they didn't enter Alicia's eyes. She only came for Sunny because Sunny wanted someone to make sure boys got whatever they needed in their daily lives while they were doing their designated tasks.

Coding is a slow and long process. It will take days and weeks for small things to actually work as they should.

The Rover Net team became busy every day and Sunny was also doing the basic designing of the features he wanted or guiding the team to his specific requirements.

It was all going pretty well until the father of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, came unannounced for a visit one day.

It was late October and everyone was basically typing their codes to keep themselves warmer apart from drinking a lot of coffee. Alicia found Tim Berners Lee entering the office and was immediately surprised.

In these last few weeks, she had been studying the internet to familiarise herself with Sunny's work and she had seen this guy's picture in major publications.

With a pleasant and sweet conversation, she invited Tim into Sunny's office.

Sunny was trying to understand how the inbuilt search option was working in the browser. This was one of the key features of this browser and Sunny knew the market for search engines in future.

Sunny had never seen the original algorithm of Google or even read properly about it but he had become familiar with the basic search operation these guys developed for 'Erwise'.

So currently, Sunny was like a student reading the planning and development of the search function and had blocked everything and everyone around him. Alicia had to personally move him to bring him back into the real world.

"What the hell Alicia?" Sunny exploded in anger at the sudden intrusion.

"Ahem! We have a guest today, Mr Tim Berners Lee or better known as the Father of the World Wide Web. Fix your clothes (fixing Sunny's hair lightly).

I will send fresh coffee."

Alicia picked up the old coffee pot and left the room for the two guys. She also opened the windows to make sure they get some fresh air inside as Sunny had basically smoked half a dozen cigarettes while studying.

"Hello, Ahem...Right...Mr Lee. Apologies for my current...looks.." Sunny finding it hard to locate words in his mind blurted out a sentence after several pauses.

"No issues. It reminds me of my own college days!" Tim said and then both the guys had a small laugh.

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