The light bulb event--the inciting action-- was when he was at Out of Town News and picked up a copy of Popular Electronics that had the MITS Altair Kit on the cover.
The Social Network (2010)
SPEAKER
A screenplay character in The Social Network (2010).
- lines
- 6
- words
- 144
- scenes
- 2
- dialogue
- 0.9%
- avg words / line
- 24
- shortest / longest
- 14 / 47
Sample dialogue
It was a beautiful day and I was in my room at Radcliffe and he brought me the magazine and he said, “Look, it’s going to happen without us, we’ve got to start it now.” And so I said, “Okay, you’re right. Let’s get BASIC out there.”
scene 102 — INT. AUDITORIUM - SAME TIMEThere were a number of machines that came next--the TRS-80, Apple II, Commodore Pet--
scene 102 — INT. AUDITORIUM - SAME TIMEThe beginnings of this industry were very humble. That kit computer on the cover of that magazine--
scene 102 — INT. AUDITORIUM - SAME TIME--had an 8080 microprocessor in it, unless you paid extra for a 1K memory board, you had 256 bytes.
scene 102 — INT. AUDITORIUM - SAME TIMEThe light bulb event--the inciting action-- was when he was at Out of Town News and picked up a copy of Popular Electronics that had the MITS Altair Kit on the cover.
scene 101 — EXT./EST. AUDITORIUM - NIGHT
Bookends
There were a number of machines that came next--the TRS-80, Apple II, Commodore Pet--