Chapter 409: The Godfather of the Internet
On September 15, 1987, Xinchuang Electronics Group Co., Ltd. announced that it had developed a "hypertext protocol" and "World Wide Web technology" that could be applied to the Internet.
"This is a protocol that allows the Internet to be not limited to text pages, but to display richer multimedia functions. Lin Qi pretended to be in front of many media, "The World Wide Web technology, the English name is Orld IDE EB, this technology is a solution based on the hypertext protocol. We classify the computers on the Internet into EB clients and EB servers! EB clients are computers used by ordinary users, and the computers need to have networking functions, and have the software to access the website of this agreement, for example, the "Pangu Browser" software that we will sell at a low price of $1 in the future, and the computers used by ordinary users who have installed the "Pangu Browser" software and have the Internet function, we become the client. The server, relative to the client, is a dedicated computer dedicated to displaying the content of the EB web page, and we will create the web page and submit it to the server. After that, ordinary users can browse these contents through our website......! The Pangu computer in my hand is a client, and now, through this client, we can connect to the Internet and access the content of the web page on the server in the Shenzhen lab......"
"Based on this technology, we have developed a free and shared knowledge website - Pangu Encyclopedia!"
"Pangea Encyclopedia? is a non-public global encyclopedia website, but it is not written and published by publishers, but by Internet users. We believe that the more the truth is debated and the more people participate in the compilation, the more professional the content will be, and the richer and easier to understand information will be greater than that of a paper encyclopedia. Moreover, it will never become obsolete, because, once the knowledge is updated, then there must be netizens on the Internet who are willing to share the update. We don't want to be omniscient, but we hope that through a website, people can better understand the common sense of the world......"
"Fellow journalists, if you have a laptop that can connect to the Internet, now is the time to try it. If you are interested, you can read the entries on the Pangu Encyclopedia website, and if you encounter some entries that the site does not have, you can choose to create a new entry......"
At the beginning of the Internet, people's most urgent desire was to meet more people through the Internet, and at the same time, the desire to popularize science and acquire knowledge has also become the hobby of many early netizens.
Even later, when there were more and more Internet users, there were still some niche users who liked to be good teachers. Moreover, encyclopedia websites, as long as they are successful, will never be afraid of lack of traffic. Authoritative encyclopedia websites, there will always be countless people who need to quickly query the meaning of certain nouns through encyclopedia websites.
And an Internet giant owns an encyclopedia website, which is naturally equivalent to occupying a large number of users. As long as the entries are rich enough, sooner or later users will come back to look up the entries. In this market, because the technology is not complicated, if you want to adopt advertising fees or other profit models, it is likely to be surpassed by competitors.
However, the Pangu Encyclopedia website does not need to make a profit at all, as long as it becomes an important weapon for new entrepreneurs to pioneer on the Internet, and it is enough to become an encyclopedia website with a good reputation.
And when the traffic of the encyclopedia website is stable, even if it is not profitable, it can also be directed to the same type of website, such as search engines, navigation websites, portals and even browsers.
After Lin Qi pretended to be pressed, the scene burst into fierce applause. Ordinary media reporters, it feels very ordinary.
But some people who are sensitive to Internet technology are already feeling excited!
More than ten years later, after the Internet gradually became popular, many people began to pretend to post the news of September 87, the new venture electronics group company, announcing the hypertext protocol and the World Wide Web technology, as well as distributing the browser.
This news was not taken seriously at first. However, with the development of time, it has become more and more a myth and legend passed down by people's mouth.
In myths and legends, Pangu opened the world!
In the myth of the Internet, it is the Pangu computer, Pangu Encyclopedia and Pangu browser that popularize the Internet to the ordinary user market. And Pangu server, with the help of this opportunity, successfully rushed ahead, so that IBM, Intel and other companies once again missed a great opportunity!
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In the 80s, the cornerstone of the Internet, the TCP/IP protocol had already begun to be popularized. The TCP/IP-based protocol DNS was first invented by Paul Mockapepiris in '83, and the original technical specification was published in Draft Internet Standard No. 882 (RFC 882). Drafts 1034 and 1035, issued in 1987, amended the DNS Technical Specifications and repealed the previous Drafts 882 and 883.
In fact, Internet users don't necessarily need a domain name to access other computers. In the beginning, everyone memorizes the IP address, for example, if you enter the IP address 100.10.0.1, if the computer is connected to the Internet and shares a part of the content, the user can see the shared content.
It's just that the total number of IP addresses in the world is at least hundreds of millions or billions, and the IP addresses are very similar, and users may be confused. Therefore, in order to facilitate memorization, DNS technology was studied. That is, the domain name is bundled with the IP address, and the user does not need to enter the IP address, but enters the corresponding domain name, such as "QQ" followed by ".COM", and you can access the website of the rich goose.
Of course, even the technology associated with IP addresses and domain names has already been announced. However, in the coming decades, the Internet industry has not yet been detonated. It was not until later that the World Wide Web and hypertext protocol technology were announced, coupled with the browser, that the Internet came out of the military, scientific research and other fields, and became a paradise where ordinary users could surf.
Since the 40s of the 20th century, people have dreamed of a worldwide repository of information. People fantasize about having an information network, which can easily query all kinds of materials and solve the problem of human information dissemination efficiency. It is precisely because of this dream that there will be people who will continue to study how to realize this dream.
This dream was later realized in the form of the World Wide Web. The crucial concept of hypertext in the World Wide Web originated from several previous projects in the 1960s. Take, for example, Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu and Douglas Engelbart's NLS. Both projects were inspired by Vannival Bush's 1945 essay "As We Think" for microfilm's "Extended Memex" system.
The invention of the World Wide Web and hypertext protocols is largely due to Tim Berners Lee. In later generations, people visited the website and typed it, which is the meaning of the World Wide Web.
There are various "fathers of so-and-so" in the Internet field, but the reputation of the father of the World Wide Web still overshadows countless innovations. After all, without the World Wide Web, many ideas may not have a chance to become a reality.
Later, the Internet was commercialized and thousands of billionaires were created, but Tim Berners Lee did not benefit from it. As the father of the World Wide Web, until the 21st century, he only worked as an ordinary researcher and did not become a billionaire through the Internet.
Lin Qi naturally knew about Tim Berners Lee, and asked the company to discuss the future concept of the Internet with Tim Berners Lee in the name of academic exchanges.
And Tim Berners Lee did not hide his thoughts, and kept informing the researchers of his ideas to the researchers of the New Venture Electronics Group by email.
After that, based on the discussions with Tim Berners Lee, the New Venture Electronics Group developed a complete World Wide Web technology, and developed a server, website, and browser for the World Wide Web era!
Although, the World Wide Web and the Hypertext Agreement, these technologies developed in discussion with Tim Berners Lee, according to Tim Berners Lee's opinion, will be released to the public free of charge, at the same time, the father of the World Wide Web will also fall to Tim Berners Lee.
However, Xinchuang Electronics is not a living Lei Feng, because ...... In fact, before the popularization of the World Wide Web, there were some similar achievements in the world, but none of them made the technology free of charge, so it did not become the mainstream standard in the world.
The direct consequence of the popularization of the World Wide Web and the hypertext agreement is to detonate the Internet economy! As a prophet, how can Xinchuang Electronics not make money?
Not only to make money, but also to earn a good reputation!
Just imagine, this agreement and the World Wide Web are both published by the new venture electronics, then, in the future, entrepreneurs in the Internet era will inevitably have a very different perception of the new venture electronics.
In the past, the impression of Xinchuang Electronics was that it may be a relatively successful company that makes games, relying on the transformation of game consoles into computers. Although the ease of use and performance of Pangu computers are not inferior to those of PCs, people definitely respect IBM more than Xinchuang Electronics.
For example, NATO countries such as the United States, Europe, and Japan, as well as their governments, banks, universities, and other key institutions, basically purchase PCs for computers, rather than Pangu, which is more powerful and easier to use.
The users of Pangu computers are mainly concentrated in individual consumers, or some small and medium-sized enterprise users. These users are mainly for game resources or cost performance, so as to become users of Pangu.
However, Pangu users, although the experience is far superior to that of PCs, do not feel at all high-end, but feel that they are using cheap computers. Some users, in order to be more decent, even changed their office computers from Pangu to PCs when the enterprise developed to a certain extent and there was no shortage of funds.