The Internet has been around since the sixties, but it hasn't been able to catch on quickly. One of the important reasons for this is that for a long time, it was not easy to access and disseminate information on the Internet.

It wasn't until Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW), a new set of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that connected information from different computers on the network into a large web that could be retrieved from each other continuously.

Hypertext is not actually something that Tim Bonas Lee invented himself, the concept was proposed decades ago. By the mid-80s, the academic study of hypertext had matured, with more than 100 papers published every year.

It's just that now everyone is still only studying hypertext as a new type of textual method. A few years later, Tim Berners Lee had a flash of inspiration and successfully applied the concept of supertext to computer networking, and developed a new set of file transfer protocols.

The World Wide Web and the Internet are two different concepts. The network of computers all over the world is called the Internet. The World Wide Web refers to the collection of information about all web pages, sites, and servers that use the HTTP transport protocol. Before the World Wide Web (WWW) and HTTP protocols, the dominant file transfer protocol on the Internet was the FTP protocol.

"Li, this is a WYSIWYG hypertext browser that we have written, through which we can access the World Wide Web server that we have opened in advance!" Dr. Cario, the head of the WWW project development team, explained to Li Xuan, who was standing behind him, in as straightforward language as possible. "We just need to enter the correct URL in the address bar, and we can easily access the server set up in the Hong Kong headquarters!"

In fact, Li Xuan was no stranger to these concepts, but he still made a serious appearance. After Cario finished typing the URL. I hit enter. The browser's page began to jump, but due to the speed of the Internet in this era, Li Xuan waited for two or three minutes before a new concise page finally jumped out.

The page is only three lines long, with the welcome phrase "Welcome to Oriental Online!" at the top and two underlined headlines below.

These underlined statements represent a new hyperlink! You can jump to another whole new page!" Cario said, clicking on the title on the second line, "The Oriental Institute Successfully Opens the World Wide Web!".

Two minutes later, the new article appeared on the browser. Cario didn't dwell too much on the content of the short article, either. Instead, he quickly found the same underlined text at the end, "Next: "Welcome Mr. Li Xuan to Cambridge Laboratory!".

He continued to click with the mouse, and the browser refreshed again and jumped to the second press release. This is a hypertext link. Let all the information on the server be organically linked.

And the setting of the hyperlink. You can also insert it into the web page as you like according to the request of the information uploader. For example, Li Xuan noticed that in the second press release, the first word "Li Xuan" appeared with an underline. So Cario quickly clicked on the underlined word "Li Xuan" again, and the page of the browser slowly refreshed, and a small turn of the character introducing Li Xuan himself.

This simple operation will be used in later generations, even by many children who are still in kindergarten. But in 1986, it was a new technology that could make a splash around the world.

"Congratulations on a great invention, and I believe that the entire history of the Internet will change because of it! If this biography could be accompanied by another photo of me, it would be more like a job resume!" Li Xuan pointed to the article on the screen. Laughed wittily.

"Your request is not difficult to achieve, just improve the HTML language and add a graphic identification program! Our web server will be able to become fully illustrated in the future, and even if the software supports it, it can also publish audio and video messages, which is what we are working on next!" said Kalio in a relaxed tone.

The World Wide Web is so inclusive, which is why it will be able to rise rapidly and become a mainstream use of the Internet in the future. Li Xuan naturally knows what kind of all-encompassing virtual world the World Wide Web will be in the future!

"Thank you all for your hard work, and I hope to share your new work with the world as soon as possible, as we continue to further improve the technology of the World Wide Web. That's why I've decided to open the World Wide Web technology to the public for free, so that everyone can see its charm!" Li Xuan suddenly announced a decision.

According to the employment agreement signed between the Oriental Research Institute and the R&D personnel, all the research results obtained during the work period are owned by the Oriental Research Institute, and the developers only retain the right of authorship. As the owner of the Oriental Research Institute, Li Xuan naturally has the right to dispose of World Wide Web (WWW) technology at will.

"Really? That's a good idea! I have a friend who works on the Internet Architecture Council, and I can contact him and ask the Internet Architecture Council to help us promote WWW technology!" said Cario very happily, he naturally wants his work to be used by as many people as possible, and free is undoubtedly the best way to promote it.

"NO! We, the Institute of Oriental Studies, will donate funds to establish a non-profit organization, the World Wide Web Alliance, to promote WWW technology!" Li Xuan shook his head and said.

The Internet Architecture Council that Cario is talking about does have a lot of energy. Last summer, the organization invited 250 major players in the computer industry to hold a global conference to promote the TCP/IP protocol.

TCP/IP is the most basic protocol at the bottom of the Internet, and it defines the standard for how electronic devices are connected to the Internet and how data is transmitted between networks. It is the large-scale promotion of the TCP/IP protocol that has truly laid the foundation for the entire global Internet to be able to connect with each other unimpeded.

It's just that this Dr. Cario, though he is an excellent technologist. There is a good chance that he will steal Tim Berners Lee's title of "Father of the World Wide Web" in this life, but he is certainly not a shrewd business operator.

The Oriental Research Institute is a for-profit commercial company, while Li Xuan is a capitalist. The reason why he is willing to invest heavily in the development of World Wide Web technology is not to do good.

The reason why Li Xuan is willing to open the World Wide Web for free is to cast a long line to catch big fish. If he can control the development of the Internet industry, Li Xuan will have the opportunity to earn back profits from other aspects in the future. In another time and space, Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web, but it was Netscape that really mined the first pot of gold from the World Wide Web.

The company that developed the world's first business browser came just 16 months after its founding. It was successfully listed on the NASDAQ, and the total market capitalization exceeded $2 billion on the first day of listing.

According to Li Xuan's plan, the development team of Dr. Cario of the Cambridge R&D Center. He is mainly responsible for the R&D and improvement of World Wide Web technologies including HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), URL (Unified Resource Locator), etc. For the commercialization of the World Wide Web, Li Xuan will organize a professional team to take over.

When Li Xuan's plane left London Heathrow International Airport, a non-profit academic promotion organization, the World Wide Web Consortium, was incorporated in London. And the first thing after the creation of the World Wide Web Consortium. It is an initiative to send out an initiative to experts in the field of the Internet from all over the world. We invite you to gather in London for a Global Internet Conference.

Of course, such a high-profile operation would cost a lot of money, but the deep-pocketed World Wide Web International Coalition does not need to worry about money at all. Because as early as the first day of its establishment, the Institute of Oriental Studies donated a huge sum of 10 million pounds to it to maintain its operation.

Money can make a difference, and when the World Wide Web Consortium is willing to reimburse travel expenses, these industry experts are very welcome. There can be such a platform where you can speak freely and communicate with each other.

As a result, the World Wide Web Consortium has successfully attracted most of the attention of the global Internet field. And the opening keynote speech of this year's Global Internet Conference. It was Dr. Cario who made the first public presentation of WWW technology to the world on behalf of the Oriental Institute.

In another time and space, Tim Berners Lee introduced WWW technology as early as 1991, but it wasn't until Netscape launched the Navigator browser in 1994 that the development of the World Wide Web really entered the fast lane.

In many cases, the aroma of wine is also afraid of deep alleys, and if a good technology wants to be accepted quickly, it also needs to have an excellent marketing plan to promote. In another time and space, Tim Berners Lee wanted to develop the World Wide Web in order to solve the problem of chaotic management of various documents at the European Nuclear Physics Laboratory, where he worked.

At that time, Tim Berners-Lee's superiors approved his proposal to use computer technology to solve the problem. And Tim Berners Lee lived up to expectations and came up with a World Wide Web system in a very short period of time.

But CERN is not a computer laboratory after all, and it is impossible to provide much support for a project that does not fall within its own research scope. Therefore, the early development of the World Wide Web in another time and space was almost completely without the help of external forces, and it was finally chosen by history only by virtue of its own technological advantages.

With Li Xuan's intervention, the World Wide Web in this world gained a world-class stage at the beginning of its inception. You must know that in order to maximize the influence of this global Internet conference, the World Wide Web Consortium paid as much as 2 million pounds for the conference.

The conference lasted only three days, and everyone was going to talk about the future of the Internet. However, under the deliberate arrangement and guidance of the organizers, the WWW technology presented by the Oriental Research Institute at the opening conference stole all attention from the beginning.

After this Internet conference, it became a research seminar on this newly emerging WWW technology! And the Oriental Research Institute and the World Wide Web Consortium have long been fully prepared, not only providing dry papers, but also preparing a real networked World Wide Web system for everyone to experience for themselves.

After the conference, the topic of the World Wide Web (WWW) quickly spread to the world as the participants returned home one after another, becoming the most popular topic in the entire Internet field this year. And through the heated discussion in the academic circles, the World Wide Web Consortium has successfully aroused the interest of Fleet Street in the United Kingdom. The World Wide Web quickly became a popular new term in technology and began to be transmitted to the whole society by British newspapers.

Of course, even if WWW technology has a great future, it still needs a gradual development process if it wants to really enter the lives of ordinary people. The development of the entire Internet is by no means an overnight thing.

Another time and space in the Netscape Navigator browser, in 1994, was able to kick off the Internet frenzy because of the U.S. government's vigorous promotion behind it. After Clinton entered the White House in 1993, he proposed the "National Information Superhighway Plan", which made the Internet a concept that was sought after in the United States at that time.

The premise of the rapid development of the Internet is the gradual improvement of basic communication facilities. And this is out of the capacity of a company, and there must be a national level of promotion. Although the World Wide Web Alliance lit the first fire in the United Kingdom, Li Xuan's real target is still the United States. It is there that there is the largest market in the world, and it is the leader of capitalism.

Although the World Wide Web can satisfy the public's curiosity about the latest technology, it is too high-end and boring for ordinary people. Everyone still prefers to watch the lace news of football stars and movie stars, so in fact, in the beginning, the British media reported on topics such as the World Wide Web and Internet conferences, although there was a certain amount of space, but they did not occupy the main page.

And at this moment, NBC TV in the United States suddenly interjected. A professor at Stanford University, in an exclusive interview with an NBC talk show, said that the United States has lagged behind Britain in the Internet field. The professor believes that the reason why World Wide Web technology was preemptively invented by the British is entirely because the US government does not pay enough attention to and invest in related fields.

NBC is the first of the three major public television news networks in the United States, and its influence is undoubted. And the latest reaction is the British media, the former empire on which the sun never sets handed over world hegemony because of two world wars, allowing the United States, the original little brother, to ride on its head in turn, but the British still have a trace of pride in their bones.

Now even the Americans themselves admit that Britain is already ahead of the United States in the field of the Internet. Naturally, Fleet Street will not miss this news, which gives the British Empire a hard face. Immediately, a number of British newspapers reprinted NBC's views and began to rehype the topic of the World Wide Web.

And the World Wide Web has also risen from a simple emerging technology to a problem of face in Britain and the United States. Therefore, the US media naturally did not show weakness, and while mercilessly attacking their own government, they did not forget to strike back against the British.

As a result, instead of cooling down, the topic of the World Wide Web continues to appear in various comments in the media. (To be continued......)