herman pollack. an older guy around the synagogue and had a lot of jokes and a lot of them were about pirates. why did the pirate quit his ship to write poetry? >> for the love of the arts! anyway, this guy from the synagogue told these jokes to me and told them to me free of charge and now "newshour" is paying me to tell them to you. how do i justify this? do i owe herman pollack or his heirs a per sedges of what i'm earning? a few years off heard the jokes is when i went online for the first time, 1994. this was the first time online for a lot of people. in many ways, mine was a test generation. everything was free for us or felt free. we wanted music, we downloaded it. we wanted to print a photo and hang it on the wall, so what. we downloaded books or ebooks with a single click. woe downloaded games. it all seemed like a game. there was so much to hear and see and read. we played around in the imagination of strangers. or whoever it was who produced all this stuff, they weren't even strangers, the