"Communication plays a very important role in the development of human beings, not only in the establishment of civilization, but throughout the entire history of mankind. ”

After a slight pause, Ahn Joon-hyuk continued to speak fluent English about what he considered to be the history of "evolution."

He made some gestures to assist his tone, and in the eyes of the people in the audience, this yellow-skinned young man seemed high-spirited and infectious at this moment. People's hearts are beating faster and faster, and they have not yet struggled out of the high-pitched "communication" of the previous words.

No one was distracted anymore, the always calm Tyre raised his eyebrows slightly, Breyer's sneer disappeared, replaced by solemnity and seriousness, and Si Ze, who was almost non-existent on the edge, also focused his strange gaze on Ahn Jun Hyuk for the first time.

Listen to him continue.

“…… But in ancient times, communication had limitations, and although humans invented language and a series of behaviors in order to express meaning more conveniently, time and space created obstacles to this primitive way of communication.

The vastness of space has made communication between different tribes scarce, the passage of time has made the same language begin to develop different meanings, if it had not changed, humans might have become another cyanobacteria community, but humans have changed, and our ancestors developed the first platforms for communication - words and books!"

With the platform, the way of communication is also constantly evolving, and humans tamed the fierce horse, used it as a primitive means of transportation, and began to communicate with the surrounding tribes, and the written word spread out of the city. Books also spread out, and the spark of civilization began to burn like a spark in the vast grassland at this moment, rapidly spreading out of the spark. ”

"But that's not enough, horses and wagons can't shoulder the weight of long journeys, and information is curtailed, but even so, the flow of information that comes with it has caused a sea change.

The influence of space on communication has been weakened. People began to be dissatisfied with small tribes. And so the city-states began to appear, and kingdoms began to appear, until 300-200 BC, when Alexander the Great of the West used his great military talent. He created a vast empire spanning Europe, Asia and Africa. And in the East. Qin Shi Huang also ended the 800-year rule of the Zhou Dynasty and built the first empire in the history of the East.

Human civilization. In the sound of horses and chariots, leap to a different era!"

Ahn Junhyuk's voice seemed to have formed some kind of inexplicable contagion, and Zuckerberg and others behind him, and the engineers in the audience, were already vaguely aware of what he was going to say, but they were a little uncertain.

The breathing of the breathless people had already begun to be heavy, and they couldn't help but clench their palms and look at the young man on the stage.

"But this period was the slowest development of human civilization, and if we study it carefully, we can find that it is because there has been no breakthrough in human communication methods and communication platforms.

But when it broke through, it burst into unimaginable potential.

In the 16th century, the Renaissance created the conditions for the breakthrough of the communication platform, and the newspaper, as a cheap and convenient regular publication, began to become a bridge for people to communicate, where people learned about Columbus, Galileo, Copernicus, and also knew that there was a great master named Bach in the world...... This personal flash is widely known because of the newspaper!

But that's not enough!

The once ignorant religious persecutors asked the great scientists, "What do you have to do?"

Not enough!

There are still limits to human communication, as long as there is one day, it is not enough for relatives across the city to have face-to-face conversations!

As long as there is one day left, it will not be enough for the leaders of the countries to negotiate and share intelligence in real time!

Furthermore, as long as there is one day left, and the way of communication cannot break through the limitations of time and space, then human beings will have to say that it is not enough!

The telephone was invented, the television was invented, the automobile was invented, and the airplane was invented.

Every breakthrough in communication methods and communication platforms has brought about huge social changes, once when the telephone was invented, people thought that its high cost could not replace the postal service, but look at now, many countries have dismantled the mailbox on the street.

When television came along, people thought it was a monster, but now it's in the homes of billions of people around the world, delivering all kinds of sounds.

But it's not enough!

Because the communication of television is one-way, people can only passively receive information, and the communication of telephone is also limited, and the long distance still exists.

Humans aren't enough, so the network ......"

Buzz –

Some people in the audience couldn't be quiet anymore, some people began to talk, the young engineer's face began to blush with excitement, and the older one couldn't calm down for a while, and his hands clenched the armrests.

In the rear, Moskowitz, who was faintly revealed by Ahn Junhyuk's words, was so excited that he still remembered his previous worries, he gently pounded the table and cursed feverish sentences in a low voice.

In the midst of the noise, Ahn Joon-hyuk raised his voice, which made his words high-spirited and passionate.

“…… This invisible giant network has completely changed people's lives, it truly connects all parts of the world without obstacles, it allows relatives to face to face, it allows friends to convey friendship under different skies, people say that the 20th century, when the telephone and television were popularized, is the era of the global village, but they are wrong, only the birth of the network can really blow the horn of the era of the global village, and only the birth of the network can make space and time no longer become a barrier!

But that's not enough!"

When Ahn Joon-hyuk clenched his fists and shouted the phrase "It's not enough!", a response from some young engineers rang out below, their young and easily excited brains irrepressibly following his rhythm and calling out the word with him.

Breyer's face began to turn pale, and he realized something. But there is nothing that can be done.

In his pale face, Ahn Joon-hyuk looked at his speech:

"My friends, let's look at Yahoo, let's look at Google, they connect the world, people can see any news through them, they can know what's going on in the world, the turmoil in the Middle East, the sympathetic disasters in Africa, the rapid changes in the developing world. But my friends. Don't you notice their monotony?

The information that people receive above is one-sided, passive, and they lack the ultimate pursuit of human beings. Tell me. What's that?"

The movements of his gestures grew louder and louder. Each heavy pronunciation caused his hair to tremble, and a mustache of bangs hung down on his forehead. He didn't care, and neither did the people watching him, who looked at him excitedly and impulsively, listened to his words, and when he almost shouted the inquiry, a sparse but neat cry rang out:

"Free!"

Although faint, but the heartfelt cry shook the entire conference hall, and Moskowitz and Zuckerberg, who were also infected by such emotions, slapped the table and shouted.

After all, they are still a group of passionate young people, they may have begun to succumb to reality, but the blood is not cold, this is their ideal to join Facebook, freedom, freedom, or freedom!

"Yes, freedom!" Ahn Junhyuk nodded and said, "They don't have freedom, so human beings will not be satisfied, the distance of time and space has been shortened, the era of the global village, starting from Microsoft Monarch in the world, has gone through 20 years, these 20 years are enough for a generation to grow old, a generation to grow, new young humans, will not be satisfied with being choked by their throats, they want to make a voice, they want to make the world smaller, this kind of freedom Microsoft can't give to them, Google can't give them, Yahoo can't give them either!"

In my mind, there is only one place where it can.

My friend, tell me its name!"

The space froze for a moment, and the next moment, a loud shout resounded through the space on this floor of the Four Seasons Hotel.

“Facebook！！”

Yes, Facebook!

Someone stood up, someone blushed with excitement.

"Yes, Facebook! It's not Microsoft, it's not Google, it's not Yahoo, it's Facebook! Maybe after today, some people will say that I'm arrogant, maybe after today, I can't stand on this podium anymore, but I will still say that the telephone has changed the world, TV has changed the world, the Internet has changed the world, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo have also changed the world, and the next step will be Facebook!

I've never lost faith in it, yes, the workplace network has failed, and our pace of reaching out to the public has been affected a bit, but what's the point? We can learn the lesson, we're doing our best to figure out what the workplace network has failed for, and we're going to do it again next time.

Today Yahoo is going to buy us for 1.3 billion, and I want to say no to it!

Because I know very well that it will change humanity in our hands, and it can only be changed in our hands, because we have faith, because we have the spirit of pursuing freedom that Yahoo does not have!

Of course, I understand the concerns of some of my friends, and here I can promise that if I take over as CEO, I will do my best to find a healthy way to monetize Facebook that is in line with our philosophy of freedom!

I don't know how to do it, but if I take over as CEO, I'll start a new internal company meeting, once a week, to hear what every engineer has to say......

……

Everybody!

A new, our-led era is beckoning!

Follow me, I will let you see that in the future, every young person will see the use of Facebook as a trend, and every young person in the future will regard Facebook as the most important home outside of reality.

Follow me down!

Follow me and Zuckerberg down!

Let's be like Alexander the Great and build a huge, free empire!"

Rumble!

The thunderous applause flooded in like a tide, Ahn Joon-hyuk raised his fist, and the light cast his faint shadow out of the sky, the silhouette was so majestic, under his shadow, were the screaming, whistling, excited engineers who stood up and applauded.

Moskowitz subconsciously took out his phone and took this photo.

A few years later, this photo, along with Ahn Joon-hyuk's speech, appeared in Time magazine.

They call it "the world-changing speech"!

This day is also remembered as a day when Facebook's first extraordinary shareholders' meeting in 2006 passed a resolution to reject the proposal put forward by Breyer, Tyre, Si Ze and others to accept Yahoo's offer to sell Facebook, and announced that it would accept Zuckerberg's resignation application and make Ahn Jun-hyuk the sole candidate for Facebook's third term.

He will officially take over at the year......-end congress of representatives!

PS: I forgot to ask for tickets again in the last chapter......