Chapter 48: Decisions by the Lake
"Woo woo woo ......"
Chen Dayou drove the GTR at a rapid speed of more than 150 kilometers per hour on the empty suburban road, shouting: "This car is really exciting!"
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"Damn! You bought such an awesome high-performance car, what's the point of driving slowly?" Having said that, Chen Dayou still reduced the speed to 120 kilometers and asked, "How much is this car?"
"It was sold for more than 5 million yen in Japan, and I asked someone to smuggle it in from Hong Kong, more than 600,000 yuan. ā
"More than 600,000 yuan is not expensive?" Chen Dayou patted the steering wheel and said with emotion: "I'm poor now and want to eat instant noodles, you are actually rich and in the mood to play high-performance modified cars...... The yen has fallen quite badly lately, and you've made a lot of money, right?"
"It's not much, just over a million dollars. ā
"I shouldn't have started a company with you in the first place, I should have gone with you to speculate on foreign exchange. Chen Dayou scolded in annoyance, turned from the highway to a fork in the road full of sand, parked the GTR on the grass on the side of the road, and said: "Let's go over, if this car rubs off the ground, I can't afford to repair it." ā
The sun was still very hot at four o'clock in the afternoon, Du Qiu pushed the car door, and immediately felt a heat wave coming to his face, he raised his hand to cover his forehead, looked at the reservoir embankment not far away, and asked, "This area is ours?"
"How can it be so cheap, the city plans to take advantage of the opportunity of our software park to connect the economic development zone with this side to create a new urban area in the future of Cloud City. ā
As remembered in the past, this will be the seat of the city government in the future......
However, without the advent of Snapdragon, construction would not begin until 5 years later......
"In fact, Secretary Zhong wants us to directly build a software park in the Economic and Technological Development Zone. Chen Dayou led Du Qiu along the dirt road towards the reservoir and said: "The construction over there began in 93, and the five links and one level have been completed, so it is very convenient to settle in, and there are many vacant lands." ā
"The development zone is full of low-end manufacturing industries with supplied materials, which is not the same type as ours, it is too noisy, and the scenery is not as good as here. ā
Majiaqiao Reservoir is an old reservoir built in the 50s for flood control, now the river has shrunk a lot, has completely lost its effect, into a small lake of about 2,500 acres, Du Qiu walked by the lake for a while, found a shade to rest, looked at the sparkling water, and said: "The water is very clean, better than Fengle Lake." ā
"Not to mention the factories in this area, there are very few residents, and of course they are clean. Chen Dayou pointed to a small hill upstream of the reservoir and said: "There is also a botanical garden over there, with mountains and rivers in the background, birds and flowers, and if the company builds its own residential buildings, it will be built nearby." ā
The hill is only a few dozen meters high, round and bulging, like an upside-down bowl, no beauty, no character, so it doesn't even have a name, but more than ten years later, a developer built a high-end villa group called Luomeizhuang, and the mountain was called Meihua Mountain.
Du Qiu took out a map from his trouser pocket, checked the area initially assigned to the software park against the terrain, and then said unsatisfied: "1,000 acres is a bit less, if only there were 5,000 acres." ā
"What do you want such a big piece of land for? We are a software park, not an industrial park, and 1,000 acres is enough to be used for many years. ā
Du Qiu smiled and said nothing, it is true that he does not need a lot of land to engage in software, but this is just the first step for him to change his hometown according to his own wishes.
Chen Dayou found a stone and sat down, looked at the reservoir for a while, and then asked, "Du Qiu, when will the email you said last time be completed?"
"In October. ā
"I heard Dawei say that you didn't hide anything when you were at Microsoft, and you tried your best to help them make the IE browser better than the iView browser?"
"IE is a little better than the current iView, but you don't have to worry, I'll update iView soon after the official release of Windows 95. Du Qiu looked down at the map and said in a very casual manner: "Microsoft and Netscape's browsers are all small cabins piled up on the beach, and they are vulnerable. ā
"Really?" Chen Dayou picked up a branch and threw it to him, and said, "Why is it vulnerable?" ā
Du Qiu put away the map, moved a stone and sat opposite him, drew on the ground with a branch, and said: "The HTTP protocol is currently version 0.9, and this version only has one line of commands, and I plan to expand it ......"
HTTP protocol is one of the basic protocols of the Internet, and it is also the most familiar term among netizens, because almost all websites start with these four letters, which is extremely important, but this protocol is very simple in 1995, can only respond to HTML format strings, can not respond to other formats, until May 1996 after the release of version 1.0, not only can transmit text, but also transmit images, videos and binary files, since then the development of the Internet has entered the fast lane.
Du Qiu took out the 1.1 version released in January 1997, which is the most stable version of the http protocol, and it was not until 2015 that it began to be replaced by version 2.0, although Chen Dayou changed his career to read theoretical physics, but he has never given up the computer, and recently he has been dealing with the Internet every day, he is a person who knows the goods, and after listening, he stroked his palm and praised: "Du Qiu, you are really awesome, you have improved the http protocol so much, if iview implements this protocol, directly throw Netscape and Microsoft ten streets!"
"It's nothing, there's Netscape in front as a pawn, and we just need to improve in the back. Du Qiu said a few words modestly, and added an S after the four letters of HTTP on the ground with a branch, and said: "For example, the HTTPS protocol they engaged in in March this year, the idea is very good, but the SSL scheme proposed has several major loopholes, and I can easily break the ......."
Netscape is considered one of the greatest companies in the history of the Internet, because it only existed for 3 years, but it left behind a brilliant legacy of https, cookies, javascript, etc., which has benefited the Internet endlessly.
https is the abbreviation of hypertext transmission security protocol, with this protocol, in order to ensure the security of important information such as netizen shopping, online banking and e-mail, which is equivalent to the anti-theft door in the Internet, but the netscape is not perfect, until 1996 and Microsoft after the release of the version is relatively perfect.
If the Internet is compared to land and the browser is compared to a house, Du Qiu started with the http and https protocols, which is equivalent to changing the cornerstone of the entire Internet, so that the iview browser is built on concrete, and Netscape and Microsoft's current browser are still built on the beach, and there is no competition at all......
Chen Dayou has been hesitant to stay in China as a CEO who is not worthy of the name, or go to the United States to concentrate on promoting the browser, after listening to Du Qiu's technical explanation, he felt that the future of iView was bright, and he was greatly excited, so he made up his mind and said: "Du Qiu, didn't you say that after the new version of the iView browser is released, it will be spun off and set up a new company in the United States? ā
"I'm not good at management and business. ā
"Actually, I'm not good at it either. Chen Dayou shook his head and smiled, and said: "I have no fetters in the United States, I can toss according to my own ideas, there are too many contacts in China, I am trapped everywhere, I socialize every day, I can't do anything, if you feel that you can't be busy, recruit another professional manager, or let Liu Yunlai be the CEO, he must have a background and ability, and he is a good candidate." ā
Chen Dayou made iView prosperous in the United States, and it was a stroke of genius to find AOL to cooperate and invest in Yahoo, but it was lackluster in China, and it did not make any reputation, and it was incompatible with the culture of Snapdragon technology first, Du Qiu was silent for a moment, and said: "The American branch is called Snapdragon International, don't take a new name." ā
With such a name, it means that the US branch is also the core asset of Snapdragon, and Chen Dayou does not have to worry about being marginalized, so he nodded and said, "Then so be it." (To be continued.) )