It was July 1995, and at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, Sandra Bullock sat in front of a huge desktop computer, one of those with a CRT screen that today look like museum pieces.
It was all part of the promotion for The Net, her film about a programmer trapped in a digital conspiracy. But what happened in front of the Entertainment Tonight cameras ended up being more real than any script: Bullock, guided by the production team, tried to buy two movie tickets through a Pizza Hut demo website. The connection froze halfway through the transaction. Nervous, she asked them to double-check her card number before confirming the payment of 17.70 dollars.
When the purchase was finally completed, someone shouted that she was the first person in the world to do it. Bullock, laughing, asked for champagne to celebrate. Decades later, in September 2026, she herself said on Jimmy Fallon’s show that at the time she thought it was all fake. The video resurfaced this week, and today it looks like a relic: the exact moment when the custom of buying movie tickets without leaving home was born.