Skynet/Cyberdyne

Well they looked as though they were on because the screens were green. I think.

I'll have to check. But again, they were supposed to be from the 60's or something. They probably didn't even have internet capacity...

No probably not.

Anyway, i think that there should have been a central core so skynet could have been shutdown.

But wouldn't that have been a cop-out ending? If they had stopped Judgement Day again then what would have been the point of T3?

Good point.

At least now the Terminator franchise can keep its dignity, even it another one is never made...

Yeah but i would like to see a T4 made

conner clearly says "SKYNET IS THE VIRUS" (skynet created the virus because i think it knew that it would be activated fully if there was trouble)

Somebody has already mentioned that before.

That is correct, El Barto

How do you rekon Brewster knew how to build it back up again.

"Skynet IS the virus", Of course Brewster knew that Skynet was operational, it would have been activated for a while to become self aware, It also may have had access to the NET to learn about human's, To create the virus, Skynet would have needed the ability to program.
Earlier in the film The cell phone network goes's down, The terminator is also heard, "Skynet is taking over GLOBAL communication, in preparation for its attack".
The virus would have been created by skynet as a decoy, so that skynet could get control of the USA's government, The missile code's etc.

That's a good point muzzdeni. But what did you mean when you said "Brewster knew that skynet was operational"?

And Glenn. Oh yeah, Glenn. Tut tut. The mighty yoda?! I will never accept that - never ya hear!!! Traitor!

At some point in time, between the time line of T2 and T3 "skynet" the computer and programme's would have been made/developed, skynet would have been operational before going "online" onto the defense network, Skynet needed the defense network in order to gain access to the missile codes and location's.

In T3 SkyNET was sentient for a while before the nuclear holocaust, but in T2 it initiated the holocaust in its infancy.

I thought skynet BECAME sentient when Brewster activated it...

The US military completed it at the same time in those timelines too by using Cyberdyne's backup files stored off site... but for some reason weren't idiot enough to give it control of everything straight away. Its first few years of life were dominated by mankind, so that should have affected its disposition naughty

Originally posted by shaber
The US military completed it at the same time in those timelines too by using Cyberdyne's backup files stored off site

Where do you figure this part from? I'm not familiar with any Terminator literature so if the above is stated in any comics/books then please forgive me...But where is there evidence of "Cyberdyne's backup files" in the movies? Thanks in advance.

Rebel HQ disclosed this. It made SkyNET more dangerous, since it spread through the internet, meaning that it is no longer dependant on any central point.