Microsoft is a multinational company with a market capitalization of more than $50 billion, tens of thousands of employees and hundreds of projects, Bill Gates is very busy, and there is no time to continue to discuss cooperation after lunch.

"Autumn, you're always welcome to Microsoft. ”

"Thank you. ”

For the crossing party, Microsoft's strictly confidential things in business, in fact, there are no secrets at all, and the things that are technically confidential cannot be stolen for a while, so Du Qiu did not run around, but only went to Butler Lampson's laboratory, talked with him for a while, and then returned to the place where he talked about C# design ideas in the morning, chatted with a few people, and exchanged programming techniques and experiences.

"Guys, we're going to have to come up with a name for this new language, or develop a code name, like Project Barbarossa, Project Manhattan, or whatever. ”

"I've heard that Java's development code name is Oak Tree, why don't we call it Project Axe?"

"Axes are not as fast as chainsaws to cut down trees, so it should be called a chainsaw plan. ”

"Timbersaws are faster than chainsaws......"

A few people chatted and chatted off the track, and before the eight characters of cooperation were skimmed, they began to fight for the name, Du Qiu felt very interesting, and after listening for a while, he said: "Coffee and tea are the two most popular drinks in the world, Java and coffee are related, it is better for us to take a name related to tea, and compete with Java for who is the most popular programming language in the future." ”

"I like the idea, how about iced tea?"

"Richard, can iced tea be considered tea? Java is an island rich in coffee, so we should find a place where tea is abundant, how about Darjeeling?"

"I prefer Uwa, which is a good name and easy to remember. ”

Du Qiu listened to their discussions, talking about the tea producing areas of India and Sri Lanka, not a single China, a little surprised, and was about to ask a question, when the mobile phone in the backpack bag rang, and he saw that it was Chen Dayou calling, so he took the phone and walked outside the door to answer.

"Du Qiu, I have good news for you, Bill Gates's invitation code has been activated!"

Bill Gates may not have taken iMail seriously yesterday, but after a chance meeting with Butler Lampson at noon, it is impossible not to pay attention to it, Du Qiu was mentally prepared and said very calmly: "I know." ”

"How do you know...... Chen Dayou seemed to be pinched by someone suddenly, his voice instantly deepened, and he asked like a thief: "You are next to him now?"

"No, I guess. ”

"Why don't you become a fortune teller?" Chen Dayou's voice rose again, and he said with a smile: "I gave Mark Anderson an invitation code last night, and he ran to my office early this morning to inquire about how iMail did a partial refresh of the page, didn't you see his expression, like the end of the world, panicked and afraid." ”

Can you not be afraid......

If Netscape's Navigator browser does not support the page refresh technology displayed by iMail as soon as possible, the market share will drop faster......

iMail is Du Qiu's killer feature for financing and listing, it has been kept secret, there is no open source, so it took several months to develop successfully, in order to achieve the best results, he also took great pains to add a new nuclear bomb to iVie 2.0, which can refresh part of the content of the web page without reloading the entire web page.

This technology is called "asynchronous JavaScript and XML" in the original space-time, referred to as Ajax, in which XML is a language for storing and transmitting data, which will not appear until 1996, which is more complex and bloated, and is not very easy to use in Internet data transmission, so Du Qiu in line with the mentality of not doing two endlessly, the lightweight data exchange language JSON born in 2001 was made out in advance.

JSON is simply the objects and arrays in Javascript, because the name of JavaScript was changed to iScript in this spacetime, JSON also became iSON, so the abbreviation of this technology has changed from the catchy Ajax to the weird "Aiai".

If you use an analogy, before the birth of Aiai technology, the content on the web page is like engraving printing, even if only one punctuation mark is changed, the entire page must be refreshed, after its birth, the content on the web page is like movable type printing, where it needs to be changed, it can save a lot of traffic, not only greatly improve the experience of the client, but also reduce the transmission pressure on the server side.

In 1995, it was still in the era of dial-up Internet access, the network speed was very slow, any technology that can improve the responsiveness of web pages will bring a great competitive advantage, among the two basic technologies used by Aiai, iScript has long been open source, but iSON has not been made public, Netscape does not know how to achieve it, and it is not surprising that Mark Anderson panicked.

"In less than two days, iMail has more than 8,000 users registered, look at Jennifer's chick and dare to despise me in the future......"

"The database seems to be quite stable at the moment, and there are no problems......

Du Qiu took his mobile phone, and after listening to Chen Dayou's cheerful report on the situation of iMail for a while, he raised his hand and looked at the electronic watch, and found that it was already more than 4 o'clock in the afternoon, so he said: "Since Bill Gates has registered iMail, my task at Microsoft has been completed, and I will watch your performance next." ”

"I did my best. ”

Chen Dayou asked Jennifer to invite Bill Gates to register for iMail, the purpose was for marketing, and Du Qiu cheekily promoted iMail to Bill Gates, not for marketing, but to let him personally feel the technical strength of iVie, deepen his impression, and increase the bargaining chips for future cooperation negotiations.

"Du Qiu, don't hang up the phone yet. You're going to go back to China on the 5th, right?"

"Hmm. ”

"Can you postpone it for a day? I'm going to go to New York with Draper on the 4th to discuss the listing with the investment banks on Wall Street, and you are in charge of the company and help me keep an eye on it for two days. ”

"I have other things to do, so I can go back to Silicon Valley on the 5th and then take the plane back to China that day. Du Qiu replied and said: "There are Wei Zhiqin and Xiao Wu in operation and maintenance, Jennifer and E in marketing, you and I are not in the company, and we have no impact on iMail." ”

"What are you going to do?"

"I have a spare amount of money and want to invest in a few small companies that I found online to play around and order a private jet by the way. ”

Chen Dayou knew that Du Qiu had made a lot of money in the financial market in addition to Snapdragon's shares, and when he heard that he was going to buy a private jet, he was very curious and asked, "How much spare money do you have?"

"About 40 million. ”

"Dollars?"

"Of course. ”

"Damn, you're making so much money?"

When he first came to the United States in March, Du Qiudong scraped together $70,000 and used it to be long yen, and in April, when the yen exchange rate reached the highest peak in history, he closed his position, and earned about $1.6 million with interest, and then he shorted with 100 times leverage, and as of November 1, the yen had depreciated by about 25%, and $1.6 million became $40 million.

After hanging up the phone, Du Qiu returned to the conference room and found that the guys had changed the topic, no longer arguing about what to choose, but arguing about which programming language was designed to be the most elegant.

That night, Du Qiu received an email from Bill Gates using iMail, in which he said three things: first, admitting that iMail is better than Microsoft's own Exchange, second, he hopes that Internet Explorer can be upgraded as soon as possible, and third, he will soon log out of iMail, hoping that Du Qiu will send the email to his Microsoft business mailbox when he replies.

"What a sensitive and funny guy. ”

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