Life is full of surprises.

Li Song and An Yu are getting married! You must know that Li Song is 28 years old, An Yu is also 26 years old, and their niece Meng Xiaohui is 18 years old, has graduated with a doctorate, and is also the youngest associate professor of Donghua University of Science and Technology.

Li Song is currently Donghua's Minister of Commerce, and An Yu is the Deputy Chief of General Staff of the General Staff.

In retrospect, it seems like a dream, in April 1876, they were on Isabela Island in the Colon Islands, a small port with a radius of only five square kilometers, only a modern traverser of 240 people, a 2,000-ton scientific research ship and an 8,000-ton ocean-going engineering ship, these are all their family assets.

At that time, the 240 people, they were very confused, there was no direction, no goal, they picked up all their own little labor, changed this port, changed this surrounding, changed this island, changed their ecological environment.

They started by growing grain and opening up wasteland, they started from fishing in Zhuhai, they said that they started by logging and building roads, and they built brick factories, cement factories, ceramic factories, and construction engineering companies from the seaside little by little.

Gradually, they have endured the fact of crossing from the bottom of their hearts, after all, they themselves are from modern times, because of hundreds of years of history, hundreds of years of science and technology, it is absolutely impossible to fall like this now.

The key thing is that they were lucky to meet the god-like scientist Nikola Tesla, in the world of the previous life, Nikola Tesla's experience in the United States can be described as the anger of people and gods, and they can't understand the persecution and oppression of him by the government of the beautiful country.

Today, today's god-like man Nikola Tesla is here again and gives Li Song and Aunt Yang a wedding gift, which is very mysterious and magical.

So, what exactly is the reason for this?

Host Liu Yun: "Dangdangdang, please send us a mysterious gift!!!!!!

"Big Brother Portable Telephone !!!!!!!!"

"Wow Wow Wow Wow !!!!!!!"

"Oh my God!!!!"

"Incredible!!!!!

"Genius is eternal God!"

"Tesla is awesome!!!"

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Big Brother was first invented by the American corporate giant Motorola. On April 3, 1973, the world's first mobile phone was born at the Motorola Lab in Manhattan, New York, and the research team was led by Martin Cooper

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When people move from being closed to being open, it's not enough to have passion and ideas, but also tools. When Big Brother entered China in 1987, it undoubtedly became an important tool to accelerate people's information communication and social interaction.

When mobile phones first entered the mainland, they had a strange name, "Big Brother". This is actually a homonym for the gang leader in Hong Kong and Guangdong. Gangs generally call the small boss "Big Brother", and the leader is naturally called "Big Brother".

It is said that the mobile phone got this name because the movie star Sammo Hung was the first person in Hong Kong to own a mobile phone, and when he was a director on the set, he never left the mobile phone in his hand, and often used the mobile phone to give orders. Sammo Hung was originally a big brother in the Hong Kong film industry, and others called him Big Brother.

Because there were many photos of him taking his mobile phone, the Hong Kong media simply called his mobile phone "Big Brother", and called it around.

Whether this source is true or not, the message of the word "Big Brother" is clear, and it was a symbol of status, status, and wealth in those days. For the Chinese people who not long ago thought that "upstairs and downstairs, electric lights and telephones" were communism, the shock it brought was inevitable. This is not only because it is expensive, but also because of the magic of the high-tech it demonstrates.

The emergence of Big Brother means that China has entered the era of mobile communications. In 1987, in order to achieve mobile communication integration with Hong Kong and Macao, Guangdong took the lead in building 900MHz analog mobile phones.

Motorola has also set up an office in Beijing to market mobile phones. This heavyweight mobile phone is thick and bulky, shaped like a black brick, and weighs more than a pound. It has no other functions except for making calls, and the call quality is not clear and stable enough, so it often has to be shouted. One of its large batteries can only last 30 minutes of calls when charged.

Despite this, Big Brother is still very in-demand and money is hard to find. Back then, the public price of Big Brother was about 20,000 yuan, but it generally cost 25,000 yuan to buy it, and the black market price was as high as 50,000 yuan. This is not only prohibitive for the general public, but also small and medium-sized enterprises can not afford it.

The first user in China to own a mobile phone is named Xu Feng, who is now the chairman of Guangdong Zhonghai Group. "November 21, 1987 was a day I will never forget," he recalled.

On this day, I became the first mobile phone user in China. Although it cost 20,000 yuan to buy a simulated mobile phone and 6,000 yuan to access the network, the mobile phone solved my urgent need for trade negotiations and helped me become the first beneficiary of the market economy. What Motorola didn't expect was that Big Brother was soon favored by some of the people who got rich first at that time.

Due to the large size of Big Brother, most of the people who use it are big brother-level figures in the business world, and they quickly become a symbol of prominent status. At that time, people had little concept of private cars, and they rarely envied them. At that time, when you drove a BMW car out, others thought it was a public car, which was far less dazzling than Big Brother. Soon people were proud of owning Big Brother and began a kind of ostentatious and comparative consumption.

Extroverts will hold Big Brother in their hands all day long, eat and drink tea to negotiate, and put it on the table, just like betting on a rich chip and scepter, they will immediately gain more respect, and business negotiations will become easier.

People with restrained personalities will put Big Brother in a polished boss bag, and the boss bag is tucked under the armpit. When appropriate, take it out, pull out a long antenna, spend a dollar a minute on the phone bill, and shout in the crowd: "Hey! Feed! I can't hear clearly, you say it again. It attracted countless admiring eyes.

The people of that era were very simple and never hid their admiration for others. Many people have quickly opened up their social circles because of Big Brother.

For a time, combing his back hair, smearing hairspray, and holding Big Brother have become the ideal image of a rich man for many people. At that time, people would never have imagined that today, more than 20 years later, even street scavengers will have a small and delicate mobile phone in their hands. Although the clumsy Big Brother and its long antenna have been frozen in the long scroll of history, those interesting scenes are still worth savoring repeatedly. Because the big brother who was born out of thin air once led the life of Chinese to a new realm.

In some Hong Kong police and gangster films, the older members of the triad are generally called "big brothers", while the leaders and bosses are called "big brothers". Because these "big brothers" often appear on the screen with "mobile phones" in their hands, people call "mobile phones" "big brothers".

Another theory comes from Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po newspaper, which said that mobile phones were expensive and had few early adopters. Sammo Hung, a kung fu actor who was so popular in the Hong Kong film industry at the time, was the first to use this kind of phone. Because Sammo Hung has a unique position in the film circle, especially in the martial arts circle, he is known as "Big Brother". When there are many newspapers, it becomes a common name. And because Jackie Chan is called "big brother" and Sammo Hung is bigger than Jackie Chan, he is called "big brother".

Mr. Zhou Youguang, a famous linguist, once pointed out when talking about the word "big brother": In 1993, the capital Beijing held a selection of the top ten popular languages, and this word ranked fourth in the list. Actually, its origin is very vulgar. It is said that the underworld calls the little head "big brother" and the big head head "big brother", and the "big brother" is very spirited. As a result, some people substituted the title of this triad leader as the name of the communication tool.

In fact, they are not related. So, at the same time, no one in the Chinese-speaking society in Singapore used it. Now more than ten years have passed, and this "big brother" has gradually disappeared in the communication of the Chinese language and people's self-identification, and has been replaced by "mobile phone" and "mobile phone", two veritable and elegant words.

Exit the market

Motorola 3200 has won the reputation of big brother because it was once used as the self-defense standard for Hong Kong police and gangster gangsters in the eighties and nineties of the 20th century. Since the opening of China's first 900MHz analog mobile phone network in Guangdong in 1987, Big Brother has been a status symbol because of its high price and high usage costs.

There have always been some technologies in history that have been invented and applied extremely short-lived, so there are some words, such as "big brother". It is more obsolete than the words "fax" and "BP machine".

The Chinese in the city have completely ended the chronic son of the traditional Chinese in terms of technological renewal, conceptual renewal, and knowledge renewal. The speed with which it was renewed left the Westerners behind. When ordinary people in the West were still watching movies with videotapes, the Chinese had long since switched to watching discs, and they were cheap pirated discs. "Big Brother" landed in Chinese mainland with the videotape. Changes in communication technology certainly contribute to a change in social attitudes.

The term "Big Brother" comes from Hong Kong. Why it is called "Big Brother" is unknown. Is "Big Brother" a prop for Big Brother? Does holding such a bulky black guy make a person have the weight of a gangster big brother? But "Big Brother" is not taken by the eldest brother, but by the followers behind the eldest brother, at least in the mainland.

"Big Brother" and "Big Brother" flaunted their might together for a while. The entertainment culture of Hong Kong and Taiwan swept the mainland for a while. This was in the late 70s and the first half of the 80s of the 20th century. But "Big Brother" was soon replaced by "mobile phone". In June 2001, China Mobile Communications Corporation completely shut down its analog mobile phone network. Big brother has become a historical term.

And today, April 18, 1880, history will remember that the mobile phone was born.