Chapter 15 The Difficult Internet Road of the Chinese People!
Jia Lei is actually quite curious about how the Huaxia government persuaded the government of country M to let them connect to the Internet, after all, the government of country M has always been not very friendly to Huaxia.
"In fact, it was the scientists of country M who helped us do a lot of work there, and country M would not agree to sign a document between our two countries that made some restrictions on the use of this first fiber optic line between China and the United States.
At that time, I signed the agreement with our deputy director, and our deputy director's English was very good!
We carefully studied this agreement on the technical aspects and the requirements provided by the government of country M, and it turned out that they were worried that someone would use this network cable to invade the network of government departments such as the energy cloth of country M, and the energy cloth of country M was using the same server as us at that time. Professor Xu recalled.
He was most impressed by the agreement, one was that the dedicated fiber optic line could not be used for commercial activities, but could only be used for scientific and technological exchanges between the scientific communities of the two sides;
The second is to emphasize that no one can have access to this network for military activities, including nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
Moreover, the Huaxia side also has to maintain the security of this network line, which includes not spreading computer viruses and carrying out hacker operations.
"I've heard my peers mention the term computer virus before, but what is a hacker?" asked Professor Wang, puzzled.
Jia Lei couldn't help but cover his face when he heard such a childish question, at that time, the computer network in domestic universities and research institutes had only just been popularized for a year or two, and they still used intranets......
Professor Wang, a non-communications scientist like them, has never seen a computer virus or a hacker attack.
94 years ago, the network cables of major domestic research institutes and universities were not fully connected to the international Internet, and only a few laboratories could be connected to the research institutes of several foreign universities.
"Grandpa, the so-called hacker is a person who uses an Internet virus to attack the computer itself and steal the information inside. Jia Lei explained to Professor Wang.
"I know that most of our domestic scientists have heard the word computer virus, but few of us have heard the word hacker.
However, when I was working in country m, I used the ARPAnet network of people in country m, and I heard several news about hackers using Internet viruses to attack other networks, so I can understand that people in country M are worried about hacker groups. Researcher Xu said.
"But our current Internet connection points in Huaxia are all in the top research laboratories, why do we run to attack the US government for no reason? Even if we want to do it, I'm afraid we don't have that much ability, right?" Professor Wang asked puzzled.
"Well, we used to use a partial connection to the Internet, and the scope of the connection was only a few research institutes corresponding abroad, so of course this kind of thing will not happen.
But what we are connected to now is the global Internet, where people from all over the world can use our network cable to attack the government of country M.
At that time, a professor from country M explained to me that he was not worried that there would be hackers in our research institute in China to attack the government and institutions of country M, but that foreigners would take our landing equipment to attack country M. Researcher Xu replied.
"Can they attack from half the world? Who would go all the way to borrow something?
In the Internet era, the world has been condensed into a global village, and even across the Pacific Ocean, it is almost the same as a neighbor on the Internet.
But Jia Lei didn't dare to ......
If he knew more about computer networks than these researchers in China, he would definitely lose his armor.
"Isn't that right? Didn't you just say that our country is only connected to the Internet of mutual scientific assistance between research institutes, but when did it become a global Internet?
Would the government of country M be so generous and easily let us join the Global Internet Alliance?" Jia Lei asked curiously.
"Because I'm lucky! I actually got to know the inventor of this domain name network technology by accident! So after I learned about the role of the Internet, I quickly asked the government to negotiate with the people of country M.
You don't know that the scientist who invented the Internet is very good, and after he got the news that we could join the world Internet, he immediately announced the decision to let Huaxia join the Internet at the world science and technology conference. Researcher Xu said triumphantly.
In April this year, researcher Xu visited the Center for High Energy Physics in Western Europe and accidentally met Mr. Tim B Lee, the inventor of the Internet.
"You don't know, I happened to be working in the same office where Tim B Lee used to work during my exchange at the Western European Center for High Energy Physics, and I used the same desk he used to use. There were still many books and materials belonging to Tim B Lee on that table, including the "hyperlinked" English book that he had written himself.
Tim B Lee, who appears to be a Briton in his thirties, used "hyperlinking" technology when he was working as a library discovery system, and when the Internet age dawned, he immediately thought of extending hyperlink technology to networked computers, rather than just viewing documents on a single computer, and then he created the world-famous network.
Tim B Lee moved to a bigger office after he became famous, but he would go back to his old office to get some books and materials, and we naturally became acquainted with each other.
He is very nice, he likes to chat with me and discuss the world's latest science and technology with me, of course, he likes to talk to me the most is his invention of the network domain name system, and he also copies his papers and invention materials to me for me to learn.
I still remember that he explained to me the greatness and future prospects of the network, and I immediately realized that this network will allow Huaxia to seize a historic opportunity!
So I asked the government to negotiate with country m to turn the local connectivity network into a global connectivity network, and then Tim B Lee invited me to the first Global Technical Symposium at CERN on April 15th.
At that time, the venue was crowded, and I could see all the participants from all over the world with excited expressions on their faces, which made me excited to participate in such a large-scale international conference for the first time!
Especially when Tim B Lee typed out a world map at the opening, pointed to the sign on it and said that wherever there is an Internet will be installed on the server, and he also pointed to the map that belongs to the Huaxia plate and said to everyone that there will also be a network connection here!
You know, I just told him a few hours ago that Huaxia had officially joined the Internet, and he trusted me to announce the amazing news directly to the world. Xu Yan said with a smile.
This is what God has allowed the Chinese people to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it has enabled us to stand on the same starting line of the Internet, a world-class new technology, together with the world powers. Jia Lei couldn't help but sigh when he heard such a coincidental story.
Therefore, in the key science and technology of Internet technology, Huaxia does not lag behind Western countries too much.
It's a pity that Jia Lei didn't know, because he made a butterfly, so that the three young people who originally made the first Internet could only develop this webpage together with other researchers this time.
Such an important thing in the previous life was done in a hurry by three young researchers in their 20s under extremely rudimentary conditions and equipment, and at that time, it was a female researcher working abroad who helped to make the first web page in China, and finally the web page that everyone uploads to the Internet today.
However, because of the large number of participants this time, Huaxia's first Internet page this time is much more refined than the one in Jia Lei's previous life.
Someone came over and called Researcher Xu away to participate in the celebration ceremony and discussion, but Jia Lei and Professor Wang had to let him go.
"By the way, now that the Internet is connected to China, can you pull a network cable to my home? I'm still waiting to get online?" Jia Lei asked, grabbing a researcher after all the celebrations.
"Our network cable is only 64k/s, and our institute itself is not enough for this bandwidth, so how can it be open to the public. The researcher explained.
"64k network speed per second!poof!" Jia Lei died immediately after hearing this number......
God, earth! You can't even send a GIF to this bit of traffic, right?
Not to mention the movies and games that Jia Lei misses in his heart......
No wonder the domestic Internet only had BBS forums at the beginning, and at this time, even if there were audio and video files, they couldn't be transmitted, even if the video of the flyer's 100-meter race could be stuck into a moving picture when it was transmitted.
"Jia Lei, come back quickly, don't think about such a good thing! Do you know how expensive it is to live with a 64k network cable now?
A 64K optical fiber line costs $4,000 a month for a single month, and the line of the Institute of High Energy Physics can barely afford to rent it for $2,000 on the Chinese side and $2,000 on the side of country M. Professor Wang grabbed Jia Lei and said that at this time, the research institute in Huaxia was still very poor, and it was particularly short of money, especially dollars.
"It's only $2,000 a month, which is too cheap, it's much cheaper than I used to send back faxes from abroad, and if I had a special network cable, I could sit at home and direct foreign companies to work. Then I don't have to be a trapeze artist all over the world again!" Jia Lei said.
"If that's the case, that's fine, and I want you to stay at home for a while longer!
However, I heard that there are many people queuing up to receive this 64K fiber optic cable at the telecommunications bureau now, and our school has also signed up. However, our school is ranked No. 9, and it is said that there are eight companies in front of them who want to rent 64K private lines, and all of them are multinational companies like IBM.
They use this because the long-distance phone bill is too expensive, so they got a 64K special line monthly subscription, so that fax and phone calls can be made casually, and you shouldn't be able to use the entire special line alone, right?" Wang Lao asked suspiciously.
"Who says I can't use it, I'm still waiting to use it to play online games!" Jia Lei immediately said that Blizzard's legendary game World of Warcraft will be released this year.
Jia Lei is still rushing to get an ancestor-level game account, and with this account in the future, he will be able to run rampant in the World of Warcraft, what a face-saving thing!
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