Chapter 53: Hi123
March 1995
After more than three months of busy work, Mark Anderson finally led his staff to develop the first browser software with a completely open interface, Netscape Navigator 1.22.
"Jia Lei, I have developed various industry standards for the open interface of the browser according to what you said, and published these values for free, and now Netscape Browser can be equipped with many software and systems such as cookies, frameworks, and JavaScript.
With the standard value of the interface that I published, other software inventors can also buy our software to build their own websites and load them with the functions they want. Mark Anderson said to Jia Lei with special pride.
"Is it really as amazing as you say?" asked Jia Lei curiously.
The previous version of our browser could only be used to browse the web and e-mail, but now we have launched this version of the software and browser, which allows ordinary people to build their own websites on the Internet and post text and pictures on them. Jim Clark was particularly pleased to say that this was an epoch-making technology.
"Since everyone can build their own website in Netscape Browser, why don't I build one too!" Jia Lei's eyes lit up when he heard this, he was busy for so long and finally could give full play to his advantages of rebirth, and firmly seize the opportunity again at this important moment in the development of the Internet.
"That's a good idea! Jia Lei, just tell me what kind of website you want to build, and I'll help you make the website. Mark Anderson patted his chest very righteously and said that it would take a day or two to help Jia Lei build a website with his skills.
"I appreciate your kindness, but there is one thing I have to make clear to you first! I built this website is intended to be used for commercial purposes, if you help me for free, the property rights of this website will be like our company's original mosaic trademark copyright disputes.
So before you help me build this website, the two of us must first explain the various ownership rights of this website, lest we repeat the mistake of the Mosaic case, and I don't want to go to court with you because of this matter. Jia Lei thought about it and said, he felt that it was better to make these words clear in advance.
"Huh...... Jia Lei, don't you just want to build an ordinary private web page, what is the value of such an ordinary thing? Is it worth it for you to sign a contract with me so early to establish patent ownership?" Mark Anderson said as he looked at Jia Lei with a laugh.
He didn't understand that what Jia Lei wanted to build was just a web website, and it couldn't sell for money like the software patents he invented, so why was Jia Lei so nervous?
"Of course it's worth it, because I'm confident that this ordinary web website will be made into a listed company worth hundreds of millions in the future!" Jia Lei said confidently, which of so many listed websites in the future market is not worth tens or even tens of billions of dollars.
"Okay, Anderson! Don't laugh! I think Jia Lei is right just now, patent ownership and trademark rights are indeed very important.
Don't forget that we just suffered a loss on the trademark Mosaic two months ago, and it is not unreasonable for Jia Lei to be so nervous about patent ownership now. Jim Clark looked at Jia Lei's serious expression and hurriedly said to Mark Anderson that he was afraid that Jia Lei would be angry if Anderson laughed again.
"Okay, okay! I won't laugh, okay!
Jia Lei, since you are so serious, then I will sign an employment contract with you, you can just give me a $100 commission and hire me to help you make a web page, okay?" Mark Anderson couldn't help but roll his eyes and said, in fact, the price he offered was no different from free help.
"Anderson, are you really sure that it only costs 100 dollars? You must know that my website may be very valuable in the future, and you will definitely regret it when the time comes!" Jia Lei thought for a while and said, he had to make his words clear so that he would not leave any trouble.
"Oh, then you just let me regret it! Who made me blind, and now I can't see how good the development prospects of this website are......" Mark Anderson said indifferently, he really didn't think Jia Lei could make much money by running an ordinary web website.
"That's not good! I'm afraid that you will blame me because of regret when the time comes! Why don't you help me build this website, and I will give you a 5% stock option on this website?" Jia Lei thought for a while and said, he didn't want to offend Mark Anderson, the future tech giant in Silicon Valley and a famous venture capitalist on Wall Street, because of this little thing.
"Okay, since you insist on giving me the option to this website, then I'll keep it!" Mark Anderson waved his hand indifferently and said, he didn't want to continue to entangle with Jia Lei in this matter.
"Oh...... Why is it that Anderson is the only one who has stock options on your website, but I don't? Could it be that you don't regard me as a friend?" Jim Clark joked with a laugh that he was simply trying to tease Jia Lei.
"Well...... Clark, if you really want stock options on my site, you can't do that...... But ......" Jia Lei was stunned for a moment when he heard Jim Clark's words, and then he seriously thought about the pros and cons here, and frowned.
"Oh, dear Jia Lei, I was just joking with you, you really don't have to think about it so seriously. I'm just joking with you as a friend, I don't really want to take advantage of you!" Jim Clark looked at Jia Lei's serious thinking and immediately explained anxiously, he didn't expect Jia Lei to take a joke seriously.
"What are you afraid of, I'm not angry with you! It is precisely because I really regard you as a friend that I decided to give you a little bit of the shares of my website after thinking about it carefully.
Let me tell you the truth, the future of my website is limitless, and the shares I have given you will definitely make you a billionaire!" Jia Lei said seriously, and the market value of a large listed Internet website can even exceed tens of billions of dollars in the future.
"Okay, I see what you mean! You're trying to tell me that your site is going to make a lot of money, a lot of money, right?" said Jim Clark with a laugh.
"That's what I meant!" Jia Lei nodded proudly.
"Since your website can make a lot of money in the future, then why am I embarrassed to let you give me the shares for free now? Why don't you make a price and I'll buy it?" said Jim Clark with a smile, still treating this incident as a joke told by Jia Lei.
"My website and company haven't been made yet, how can I offer a price for the shares? Why don't you do me a favor directly, then the 5% shares will be my remuneration for you and Netscape." Jia Lei thought about it and said.
Jia Lei's website: These shares are worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the future, and now we can't let Jim Clark buy them for tens of thousands of dollars! So Jia Lei directly gave away the shares in exchange for conditions, so that he could still earn some favors......
"Okay, you say, what do you want me to help me with?" asked Jim Clark curiously, they had known each other for several months, and this was the first time Jia Lei had asked him to help.
"I don't want you to help me much, I just want to wait for my private website to be made, you can load it directly into the Netscape browser for me and bundle it together. Jia Lei thought about it and said.
With Netscape Browser now having a market share of more than 50% in the Internet browser market, as long as Jia Lei's website can be directly bundled to Netscape Browser, it is equivalent to obtaining all the customers of Netscape Browser at once.
"It's not difficult for you to load your website directly onto the Netscape browser, the crux of the problem is that our browser is about to release a new version today, and I'm afraid it's too late in terms of time, right?"
In fact, Netscape is preparing to release Netscape Navigator 1.22 version of the browser software today, and he can't push back such a big thing because of Jia Lei alone, the software market is competing for a new and fast, and that software company does not dare to delay the speed of new products on the market.
"Of course I know it's too late today! My private website doesn't even have a single hair, how can it be carried on the current version of the browser. All you have to do is help me build the website, and I'll be able to load it on the next version of Netscape. This is not a high demand, right?" asked Jia Lei.
"You're right, it's not a high order!" I raised my hands in agreement. Jim Clark nodded, saying that it was just a trivial matter for him.
"My hand was going to help you write code, so I had to raise my feet and agree!" Mark Anderson said with a laugh, and then he raised his feet and dangled them in the air.
"Anderson, you are 24 years old this year, can you not be so naïve?" Jia Lei couldn't help but roll his eyes and said, Anderson is very handsome, but his personality is too unstable.
"Jia Lei, you can't just look like a little old man every day and ask me to be as old-fashioned as you, right?" Mark Anderson couldn't help but smile and said, Jia Lei usually pretends to be deep every day with a straight face every day in order to maintain his position in the company.
"Okay, Jia Lei, Anderson, you two don't make trouble here, let the outside employees see that the impact is not good! Jia Lei, you better tell us what kind of website you want to make, right? So I can ask Anderson to help you write code. Jim Clark hastened to say that the two naïve ghosts often quarrel over who is more naïve.
"Okay, I won't make any noise! Jia Lei, tell me what kind of private website you want, and I'll help you make it?"
"The private website I want is very simple to say, it's just a web address!" Jia Lei hurriedly said, this software is a website that is easy to do with the current technical level.
"What's that?" asked Mark Anderson, puzzled, he had never heard of the name before.
"A website is a functional web page filled with links to all the commonly used websites!
We now want to visit which website don't have to use our hands to enter the website address letter by letter into the address bar, if we directly hang the address chain of the URL on the page, so that it is troublesome and does not waste time!
The most important thing is that the character suffix behind the link behind each URL is as long as twenty or thirty, as long as we accidentally hit a wrong symbol when we lost before, we can't find the website we are looking for, and then we can only lock those smelly and long websites in the address bar again and re-type!
I hope you can help me hang these URLs on the web page in a format like a file directory, so that as long as the user using the browser uses my web page to do the link transfer, he can click directly on the website he wants to go to! How much trouble will this save and how long will it take!" Jia Lei explained, he tried his best to describe the website in simple and understandable language.
"Oh! That's a really good idea! If there is such a website, I don't have to spend a lot of time and energy carefully typing in those smelly and long URLs when I want to visit different websites in the future. After listening to Jia Lei's words, Mark Anderson's eyes lit up and said that he couldn't wait for what Jia Lei said to appear in front of him immediately.
"Oh my God, Jia Lei! You're really a genius! How did you come up with such an amazing idea? Once your website is successful, it will definitely attract the attention of everyone in the world.
You must know that the most annoying thing for our ordinary users when surfing the Internet is the URL that contains all kinds of letters and symbols when entering the URL, even if we professionals have to bother when entering the URL. This new idea of yours is a great lifesaver for all Internet users!" Jim Clark hugged Jia Lei excitedly at this time, he is one of those people who hate typing URLs.
"Okay Anderson, don't be so insensitive! this is just a normal web address, what are you excited about, if only I could get a search engine! Hey...... Why didn't I learn computers in my last life......" Jia Lei couldn't help but sigh and said, if he learns computer programming, then he can directly transform into the male protagonist of Shuangwen at this moment and establish an Internet empire.
As for the high-profile Google and Baidu search engines in the future, there is not even a shadow yet, and the closest is Yahoo, but Yahoo will not be established until a month later.
Because all the data required by Yahoo Engine is entered manually, and the corresponding file can only be retrieved if you enter the correct URL, it cannot really be classified as a real search engine.
In fact, the Yahoo engine can only search a fixed searchable directory at this time, and their only advantage is that the page is full of a variety of detailed network address directories, allowing everyone to search according to the map for a variety of detailed numbers, that is, this 1-to-1 search engine is already the most advanced search engine at that time.
A one-to-many search engine like Baidu or Google has not yet been developed at the moment, and Jia Lei does not know how to write software, and it is impossible to create a meta-search engine similar to one-to-many out of thin air.
So he set his sights on the home of the popular invention in Huaxia, after all, the home of hao123网址 made the inventor rich overnight with its simple and convenient operation.
Jia Lei plans to name his new website Hi123.
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