Chapter 982： That great man

If you were asked to choose one of the greatest inventions from now until forty years in 2020, what would you choose?

Is it the world's first commercial Motorola cell phone to be launched the following year? Is it the iPhone that changed life again?

Is it a 3G network that realizes the networking function of mobile phones? Or wireless WIFI function?

Is it TWITTER that makes communication more convenient? Or have you become a Facebook in the online world? Or is it a WeChat that has Chinese characteristics and built a small circle? Or did it later become a micro-blog with a group of demons?

Yin Jun felt that these were not.

The greatest invention is the most prerequisite for these inventions.

WWW.

The academic name is Global Information Network, and the Chinese are commonly known as the World Wide Web.

To put it bluntly, with this thing, you can go through various servers to browse other websites smoothly-that is, you can only access the Internet through it.

It is possible to communicate on the Internet. With the great premise of the Internet, there are various network communication tools that will be developed through the network, and the future of Apple and smartphones is so brilliant that no one dares to imagine!

Without it to implement network connection, Apple is just a mobile phone that can make calls, at best it is just pretty.

Without the World Wide Web, we would n’t even see Twitter, WeChat, Weibo, etc. today.

To put it a bit more professionally, although it was available in the 1960s, the Internet, but at that time, it could only transfer some data, find documents, files, etc. It belongs to a small-scale network and cannot link various hosts, The server has no transmission protocol, and of course there is no way to see the colorful web pages we see now.

How is a webpage considered complete?

It must contain dynamic pictures, links, music, programs, etc., so that is the web page we see every day.

And this is what the html hypertext protocol covers.

If you pay attention to it, all open webpages are displayed in English, the beginning must be "WWW.", And the ending must be ".html", but there are some webpages that simplify these representations.

It is precisely because the html hypertext protocol has been grafted onto it, that we can see these pages with pictures and text today. Only with our colorful online life has everything changed.

The unity of the two comes only from one person's credit.

He is a British scientist and computer expert-Tim Berners Lee.

If you seriously watch the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, you will find that Chapter 6 is a link that is a bit inexplicable for ordinary people.

Its name is "Frank and Jon said, thank you Tim".

A little boy Frank, a little girl Jon, in a series of wonderful performances, a slightly bald middle-aged man in a beige suit sat at a humble desk on a NeXT workbench computer , Typed a line.

"Thisisforeveyone"

This line of words spreads on every corner of the world's five continents along with the TV screen.

Then he stood with a smile, showing a shy smile, raised his hands, and waved to the audience and everyone in front of the TV.

Yin Jun did not know what other people thought of seeing this scene. Anyway, he felt a bit tearful.

This is a great scientist and computer expert.

He could have become the richest man in the unprecedented super world.

What Bill Gates, Buffett, Ma Yun, Zuckerberg, etc., tied together will not be richer than him.

As long as he applied for a patent on the WWW World Wide Web, this invention, which belongs to him alone, will enable all people on the Internet to pay him a patent fee, and hundreds of billions of dollars are just a fraction! !

But Tim Berners Lee did not do this.

Although living in a patent flying, there are times of invention and creation of wealth.

Although he knew this would definitely make his family rich and have endless money.

The decision he made was the sentence above.

Thisisforeveyone.

free.

Dedicate the Internet to everyone in the world for free.

Let everyone enjoy the fun and happiness brought by the development of technology and network.

This is the simple and great idea of ​​this great man.

"Times" named Tim Berners Lee as one of the 100 most outstanding scientists in the world from time to time, and said that the World Wide Web only belongs to Tim Berners Lee.

Its commentary was written like this: "Unlike all inventions and creations that promote human progress, this is purely a personal work. His invention in the development of information globalization is comparable to ancient printing."

You might say that Tim Berners-Lee is a fool, and he has obviously received royalties, which will not affect his great inventions, and will not prevent him from being recorded in history.

But others are reluctant to make money by relying on this, and think that the technology Internet belongs to everyone in the world. They cannot selfishly occupy it, but should open it up and let everyone have it.

However, you have to respect this great scientist. It is with such a great person in the world that we can feel a trace of warmth in this human world full of the interests and passions of Chiguo Guo.

At that time, Tim was on the NeXT workbench computer, and the first webpage in human history was played.

Now in 2012, he used the same NeXT workbench computer to express his blessings again.

There is no doubt that Yin Jun thinks this is a great moment. It is more exciting and lovable than when Bill Gates stood on the throne of the richest man in the world and pointed to the mountains and rivers.

Even Tim Berners Lee ’s Twitter fans are only a few hundred thousand, and they are not as good as one percent of our domestic small fresh meat, beautiful female stars, and even web hosts. Dozens more times.

But does this detract from Tim Berners Lee's greatness?

Not at all!

In Yin Jun's view, a scientist like this should be awarded more honorary awards so that he can be respected and loved by everyone.

There is a saying that sooner or later, the Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded to Tim Berners-Lee, not only because he deserves it, but also because the Nobel Prize is awarded to him, it appears more honorable.

Of course, in fact, Tim Berners Lee won many awards. The British Sir, the Foreign Academician of the US National Academy of Sciences, the Turing Award, etc., were given to him. In this life, in addition to hundreds of millions In addition to billions of dollars of money, everything else can be said to be very satisfying.

Tim? Berners? Lee in the industry is also crazy love and sought after.

In fact, why is Android free? Are you a fool when you are a Google company? Isn't it because the Android system is developed based on the LINUX system, and the inventor of the LINUX system Linus? Towaz said at the beginning of the invention that all users using LINUX must be free and open?

Linus Dragos is a big fan of Tim Berners Lee!

And Yin Jun went to Europe this time just to see Tim Berners Lee, his own idol.

Of course, he would n’t just go to visit idols or buy patents on the WWW World Wide Web—it ’s almost 9 years before Tim Berners-Lee publishes the first web page on the World Wide Web.

Besides, Tim Berners-Lee ’s character was determined. Even if Yin Jun used money to impress him, he would not bother.

Yin Jun is definitely impossible to be such a villain.

In his view, Tim Berners Lee ’s free opening of the World Wide Web is one of the most commendable decisions in this world.

Just like WINDOWS, if you don't open a free platform, various programs, software, games, etc. of the computer, it is absolutely impossible to develop so quickly, and the development of technology will not develop so fast.

If the World Wide Web charges from the beginning, there will be few people who can afford it, and many smart people who have no money but have brains are naturally impossible to invent and invent on them.

We do n’t talk about the other 80s and 90s. In 2003, when Mark Zuckerberg invented the great Facebook in his dormitory at Harvard University ~ www.novelhall.com ~ If he faces the Internet, he will face WWW The World Wide Web must pay fees. The longer it takes, the higher the fees. Will there be any software in the world that communicates with Facebook in this world?

Therefore, the open and open WWW World Wide Web is greater than the open and open WINDOWS system!

Yin Jun went to Europe this time, not only to persuade Tim Berners Lee to charge the WWW World Wide Web, but also to vigorously subsidize him, let him get the World Wide Web faster, and open it earlier. All computer enthusiasts.

Only in this way can all kinds of software appear, spread, and promote the development of network and technology like a mushroom.

In particular, all kinds of special effects production software, hardware, and various talents that Yin Jun needs can continue to emerge and be used by Yin Jun.

Of course, this requires a process.

After all, last year, Tim Berners Lee began to have this concept of the World Wide Web, and slowly began to invent and integrate the existing conditions.

Even if Yin Jun went to Europe and told Tim Berners? Lee what the mature World Wide Web is like, what needs to be done to make it better for web pages, browsers, etc., he also needs time to digest, Then it can be used in practice.

Yin Jun couldn't do it himself, he could only provide opinions, and could not go to battle by himself.

To put it bluntly, in this era of even the WINDOWS system, in the era when there are no dual-core and quad-core processors, GPUs and CPUs, it is extremely inefficient. Software.

His expertise is not at all.

As a guide and ideological guide, it is his most suitable position now.