5/25/2023 0 Comments Paid version of google earth![]() ![]() Through the story of Juri Müller and Carsten Schlüter, the miniseries dives into the atmosphere of Berlin's post-reunification era, with its techno clubs, its wildly experimental art scene and its hackers, who weren't really taken seriously at that point. Time travel to the 1990sĭetails of the 1990s are meticulously reproduced. ![]() The Netflix production's look, story, editing, script and soundtrack is on par with similar international productions, and, adding an authentic feel, the German actors in The Billion Dollar Code have synchronized their own voices in the English version. The two developers could just as well have been from Japan or South Africa instead of Germany the core of their tale is universal. With this German production, Netflix demonstrates once again that the setting of a story is not what matters most, but rather what it is about. The Netflix miniseries tells in two timelines and four parts how two computer freaks developed their idea, convinced a large corporation and finally the whole world of its interest - only to be robbed of their fame and fortune by a tech giant's legal ruse. The two developers from Germany felt that Google had stolen their idea - leading to a David vs. ![]() It was a resounding success.īut during a trip to Silicon Valley, the source code for "Terra Vision" fell into the wrong hands - and in 2005 Google, by then a tech giant, suddenly released Google Earth. ![]() Juri Müller (Marius Ahrendt) and Carsten Schlüter (Leonard Schleicher) develop their idea Image: Netflixĭespite a chaotic process, the two partners managed to have their "Terra Vision" project ready for a presentation at an international communications fair in Kyoto, Japan, in 1994. They quickly realized that computers in the early 1990s weren't performant enough for their project.īut that could change, especially with the help of a telecommunications giant and experienced hackers on board: They were sponsored by Deutsche Telekom, and developers were members of the Chaos Computer Club. Two guys in Berlin in the early 1990s: One of them is an art student with big ideas, the other a computer nerd.Īfter meeting in 1993 in a techno club, they developed together the idea of creating a kind of global work of art that would allow people to travel to any point in the world, simply by zooming into a location with a click of the mouse. ![]()
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