Lance-Gill, a student at the University of California, Berkeley, who had just returned to Berkeley on the last day of March after a hike to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park with his girlfriend, saw a new billboard erected on the top floor as he passed a building near the school. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The content of the billboard is very simple, on the left is a black camera, on the right is a red, yellow and green logo surrounded by a blue circle, the shape is a bit like the miniature of the lens, and the advertising slogan is written on the bottom side: The camera allows humans to appreciate the dynamics of the real world, and iview allows humans to appreciate the dynamics of the Internet world!

The girlfriend also noticed the new billboard and wondered, "What kind of product is that?"

Lance-Gill, who studied computers, understood it at a glance and said, "It should be a new browser." ”

"What is a browser?"

"A kind of web software, like a camera...... Or like a video camera, which allows you to see what's on the internet. ”

Lance-Gill dropped his girlfriend home before returning to his dorm, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw his roommate sitting in front of the computer typing, a bunch of pizza delivery boxes and a dozen drunk cans on the floor, and he seemed to have not been out for days, so he asked loudly, "Hey, Harry, I said don't leave garbage in the room." ”

"I'm in the process of porting iView, and I'll throw it away when I'm done. ”

Lance-Gill thought of the billboard he had just seen, put his backpack down, walked over to look, and saw that in addition to the desktop computer he was programming, Harry also had a laptop in front of him, and the screen was densely packed with program code.

"Harry, where did you get the source code? It's illegal to port software without permission. ”

"iView is open source software that can be used, modified, and ported at will. Harry seemed to have not slept for a long time, but he was very excited, and he crackled and explained, "Nick and George, a few of them are betting with me to see who will port iView to FreeBSD first, and they will lose because I will soon be done...... Aha! One more feature, Nick's NBA card will be mine. ”

"Why are you porting this iview, isn't there a scape?"

"Lance, you've been playing in the Great Smoky Mountains for a week, you've become a primitive, scape is garbage, iView is the best browser in the world, I can prove it with a simple example. ”

Harry stopped typing, moved his laptop to the right side of his desk, turned off the source code on it, opened a browser program, and typed the URL of "" in the address bar, but instead of pressing enter, he raised his index finger and shook it at Lance, reminding, "Attention, you will see a beautiful, magical, and great new world!"

After pressing the enter key with the index finger, a group of small black fish appeared in the middle of the laptop screen, and the small fish were like dandelions blown away by the wind, spreading out in an orderly and beautiful way, swimming freely everywhere.

On his 18th birthday, Lance went to Las Vegas alone to watch a striptease-girl show, and felt that there was nothing more exciting in the world, but now he was shocked by the vivid dynamic effects on the computer, and felt a completely different but more novel thrill, surprised and excited, and exclaimed: "What is this?"

"It's a miracle from iScript. Harry clicked the mouse, and the small fish on the page dispersed, and the official homepage of iView appeared, and then read out the slogan on it: "Experience the living Internet with iView." ”

The homepage looks very concise at first glance, only iview browser, iscript language, interactive communication three columns, but when the mouse slides over the name of the column, a menu will automatically pop up, showing different sub-columns, this dynamic effect in 2016 is a basic function necessary for every website, but in 1995 it was an earth-shattering initiative, Lance looked at Harry's demo for a while, and said: " Harry, you're right, iView is the best browser in the world, and it's going to usher in a new era. ”

"That's right, and it's open source. Harry closed his browser, put his laptop back in its original position, and said, "Lance, do you remember those open source software articles from two months ago? iview is the author's new work, he is in the United States right now, and he is going to give a talk about open source software at our school tonight, you can go listen to it with me." ”

"Ok, I'll go. ”

While Lance and Harry were discussing iScript, Alan Butler was struggling with iScript.

Alan Butler opened an Internet design company in San Jose, specializing in helping small and medium-sized enterprises build websites or homepages, like making blackboard newspapers, using HTML language to put a bunch of text and photos on the Internet, the work is very simple, the profit is very rich, so life is quite comfortable, but since March 28, his good days have come to an end, because the company has received several calls from customers, asking for animation effects on the page in addition to photos and text.

Damn it!

I'm a website design company, not a Disney studio!

Alan Butler racked his brains and used every conceivable word to educate customers about the principles of web design, but none of the customers listened, and the unanimous statement that their company's page must be like a small fish on the iview homepage, which can show the company's image in a moving form.

What is iView?

What is a small fish?

Alan Butler opened the homepage of iView with confusion and confusion, but he didn't see anything but a simple and ordinary website, and there was even a parse error in the corner, and he closed the page with disdain, leaving the customer's request behind.

However, in the next few days, more and more customers called and offered the page to "live", "move" and "dance" Such inexplicable requests,Alan Butler was irritable,I had to open the official website of iview again,Carefully browse the content above,Only then did I realize that iview is a new browser,Only after installing it can you see the dynamic effect,And the scape I used before because there is no iscript engine,Can't render dynamic effects。

What is the iScript engine?

After downloading, installing, and getting everything done, Alan Butler opened the iview website again, this time he was as shocked as Lance, like a five or six-year-old child, staring at the small fish swimming around the screen for several minutes, then holding his half-bald head and screaming, entering the home page as fast as he could, clicking on the submenu of the iscript column, and downloading the instructions and programming guides.

Hurry up and learn it as fast as you can!

You can only make $1,000 for a static web page, and you can make at least $5,000 for a dynamic web page!

While Alan Butler was working on the iscript language, Bert Persia, far away in Europe, was reading an email.

The email was sent by a netizen with an ID called UN2758, an ID that Bert Pers had seen a lot of talking about in the Linux newsgroup, but it was all about open source software, not much to do with the Internet, and he was currently working on a new web browser, so he didn't pay much attention.

The email was very long, and there were attachments, and Bert Persian made a cup of coffee first, and then sat down to read it slowly, and after looking at it for a while, he sat up straight, and even forgot to drink the coffee, because UN2758 was discussing with him about CSS technical standards.

Bert Perse wrote a dissertation on software graphical user interfaces in 1993, received his PhD from the University of Groningen, and then began designing a browser called Argo, and in 1994, together with a friend named Harkun Leigh, he designed a new technology to improve the design and display of web pages, which they called Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS for short.

But this new technology is still only a simple draft, with many flaws and problems, and it is far from mature, so Bert Persian has only shown it once at a technical forum in Chicago, where did this un2758 come from?

In the email, UN2758 described in detail his understanding of Internet front-end design and CSS technology, and made a lot of pertinent and forward-looking suggestions, Bert Pers only saw half of it, and felt that the CSS designed by himself and Harkun Leigh was like a baby's building block, not worth mentioning and unbearable, while the CSS that UN2758 foresaw was like the Empire State Building in New York, sturdy, beautiful and durable.

Bert Persian took a sip of his coffee that had cooled down and opened the downloaded attachment, which contained a browser called iView, which had been installed for about half an hour, and he felt that his near-finished Argo browser could be thrown into the trash.

Maybe I should accept the offer to work at this iview company......

But I like life in Europe and I don't like America......

When Bert Persian was hesitating for work, Chen Zhiyang was sitting in his office talking to Zeng Fanhao in high spirits.

"Director Zeng, how have you studied the source code of iView?"

"At present, about 70% of the research has been completed, and Xiao Zhou said that a beta version of the Chinese browser can be made in two weeks at most. ”

"Yes, yes, you let Xiao Zhou work harder, we must make our own browser before other colleges and universities in China. ”

"Principal Chen, don't worry, with the help of Dayou, we got the source code three days earlier than others, and as soon as we got it, we started researching it immediately, and no one in China can be faster than us." Zeng Fanhao first patted his chest and gave the military order, and then said with some concern: "Principal Chen, iView is unknown now, few people know, the technical problem of borrowing it directly is not big, in case it becomes popular in the future, will we be gossiped about if we do this?"

Chen Zhiyang had a look of wisdom in his hand, and said with a smile: "What you lack now is a product that can fill the domestic gap, not technology, and we don't engage in open source, you change the interface well, change Zhao Feiyan to Yang Yuhuan, and then who can recognize it?"

"Hehe, that's what Principal Chen said. ”

"You let Xiao Zhou go faster, the sooner the better, after the popularity is launched, I will help you apply for more scientific research funds, so that when the School of Computer Science is officially opened next semester, you have heavyweight products to press the array, and scientific research funds to buy people's hearts, so as to sit firmly in the position of the dean, so as not to let people say that you are shallow and prestige is insufficient." ”

"Thank you, ...... Chen Thank you Principal for your support. ”