(The content of this chapter is adapted from the oral memoirs of Xu Research, and the copyright belongs to Researcher Xu! Because Researcher Xu's level is too high to be mentioned in this article, the author hereby thanks him is grateful)

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"Woo...... God, earth! I'm finally coming back after four years of being off the Internet? For an otaku, life without the Internet is simply too difficult!" Jia Lei thought very excitedly after seeing this scene, he cried happily when he saw such an exciting thing.

"Come on, come on, let's take a group photo together, and this picture will go down in history. After seeing the success of the experiment, the chief happily waved to everyone and said, Jia Lei only then found that there was a news video recorder next to him, and he remembered all the embarrassed appearance of crying.

"How can I take pictures like this, it's too embarrassing......" Jia Lei said with a special regret, and then he took out a handkerchief from his pocket and began to wipe his face indiscriminately.

"What are you afraid of as a child? Don't you see most of us crying, who cares about you as a nameless little hairy child at such an important time. Professor Wang wiped his eyes and said that he had also cried just now.

"Click! Click!" In a burst of shutter sounds, this historic moment was recorded and officially recorded in the annals of Chinese history.

"I'm crying because I'm addicted to the Internet, why are you crying?" Jia Lei asked Professor Wang puzzled after taking the photo.

"Can I not cry, on the one hand, this is a major progress in our country's scientific and technological community, and on the other hand, it is something that I have sentenced for many years.

Jia Lei, you don't know, I just set up a scientific research project in partnership with a foreign university in the research institute of the school, and now it is very expensive to make faxes and transatlantic calls in China, and we can only use 4.8K and X.25 lines to send communications and contact foreign countries, and the monthly communication fee will cost 200,000 yuan, but I feel sorry for me.

But even if we spend so much money on renting satellite lines, those lines can only transmit a little bit of content, and we can at most send an email to a foreign country, after all, fax is paid according to the traffic.

However, articles and e-mails can be transmitted through satellite data, but not experimental data!

One reason is that there are too many experimental data to be transmitted slowly, and the other reason is that the fax cost is too expensive for us to spend, so we have to make those experimental data into disks by ourselves. Professor Wang recalled.

As far as I know, a small amount of data in some experimental processes will cost dozens of pages and hundreds of kilobytes, right? How do you record them into disks?" Jia Lei asked in shock.

You must know that the 90s used are 486 computers and 3.5-inch floppy disks, a 3.5-inch floppy disk capacity is only 1.44M, and its read and write speed is very slow, it takes more than a minute to copy more than 1M files, and the amount of experimental data used with this thing can be imagined.

"Yes, you don't know how much hard work we have suffered and how much precious research time we have wasted in order to get this experimental data.

At that time, it was as difficult for Tang Seng to go abroad with these experimental data on his back as it was for Tang Seng to go to the West to learn scriptures after nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties, which was really time-consuming and laborious!

We usually fly in to discuss the progress of the experiment with the other research institute, which can save a little time, and then each of us is responsible for loading a large number of tapes in our luggage bags, and these tapes have to write down in detail what is recorded in them.

Because the disk involves the issue of confidential information, the customs officers have to pay special attention to us every time we pass through the customs, and they have to ask me to check the tapes and other things to prevent the leakage of state secret information.

Every time we go out, we not only have to find the unit to issue a certificate and seal in advance, but also find the leader to sign, so that the customs will release it.

With the Internet this time, we no longer have to fly abroad to memorize experimental data, and I can save a lot of time in the lab. Professor Wang rejoiced that a science madman like him would waste his time on the road.

"Grandpa, your life was too difficult in the past! I knew that I would have paid to rent a satellite for you. Jia Lei said distressedly that he would rather spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year than the old man suffer this crime.

If you know how our country connects to the foreign network, you won't think it's a big deal to carry a disk abroad. The old researcher walked over with a smile on his face.

"Actually, I've always been curious, now that the Internet is a high-end technology all over the world, how could country M so easily let our country step into this field early?" Jia Lei asked.

"Because science knows no borders! Our access to the Internet is inseparable from the support of scientists from all over the world. Researcher Xu said, and then he carefully explained to Jia Lei the cause and effect of this matter.

"Of course, the government of country M will not let us enter the Internet so easily!

I think that after you got the server back to us, we debugged it for more than ten months to build the first server network in China, thanks to the personnel and technical support provided by foreign research institutes.

But when we first made a physical fiber connection to the Stanford Institute, we had just connected to the router at Stanford University's linear accelerator center, and the network suddenly went down within a few minutes!

Because our equipment is not good, similar things have happened in the past, so we carefully checked our equipment, and then we found that this time it was not our side that was disconnected, but Stanford University's side of the disconnection!

When we learned about the situation, a foreign researcher who had helped us set up a network at the institute immediately called back to Stanford University, and we learned that our broadband connection had been cut off by the U.S. government.

Then the professors on both sides of us had an emergency meeting on the phone, and the reason why the people of country M cut off the internet was for military and political reasons.

However, the scientists of country M did not listen to these excuses, and after discussing them, several of their professors immediately called and wrote to contact the researchers of other countries, and then told the government departments of country M that our current action is an international scientific experiment cooperation project, and we need to open an Internet connection in China. Researcher Xu recalled.

"I have always felt that the most famous people in the world are musicians and scientists, which is why people say that scientists have nationality, but science knows no borders. Jia Lei said.

"What about later? How did you solve this later? How did the government of country M agree to you connecting to the server over there?" Professor Wang asked anxiously.

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