Chapter 976 That Great Man

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

Is it the world's first commercially available Motorola mobile phone that will be launched the year after tomorrow? Or is it the iPhone IPHONE that changed life again?

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

Is it TWITTER that makes communication more convenient? Or have you become the FACEBOOK of the online world? Or is it a WeChat with Chinese characteristics that has built small circles? Or did it later become a Weibo where all the demons were dancing around?

Yin Jun felt that it was none of these.

The greatest inventions are the prerequisites for the above-mentioned inventions.

WWW.

The academic name is the Global Information Network, and the Chinese people commonly call it the World Wide Web.

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

Now that we can communicate on the Internet, and with the basic premise of the Internet, there will be various network communication tools that will be developed through the Internet, and only then will there be a future as brilliant as Apple and smartphones that no one dares to imagine!

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

Without the World Wide Web, we would not be able to see things like Twitter, WeChat, and Weibo today.

To put it a little more professionally, although the Internet existed in the 1960s, at that time it could only transmit some data, search for documents, files, etc. It was a small-scale network and could not connect various hosts. , server, there is no transmission protocol, and of course there is no way to see the colorful web pages we see now.

What makes a web page complete?

It must contain moving and static pictures, links, music, programs, etc. This is the web page we see every day.

And this is what the html hypertext protocol covers.

If you look carefully, the English display of all opened web pages must start with "WWW." and end with ".html", but some web pages have simplified these representations.

It is precisely because the html hypertext protocol was grafted onto the Internet that we can see these web pages with pictures and texts today. Only with our colorful online life has we changed everything in the future.

The unity of the two comes only from the merit of one person.

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

If you carefully watched the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, you will find that Chapter 6 is a section that is a bit baffling to ordinary people.

It's called "Frank and Jon Say Thanks Tim."

A little boy Frank, a little girl Joan, in a series of wonderful performances, a slightly bald middle-aged man wearing a beige suit sat at a simple desk on a NeXT workbench computer , typed a line of words.

"This is for eveyone"

This line of words followed the TV screen and spread to every corner of the five continents of the world.

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

Yin Jun didn't know what others thought when they saw this scene, but anyway, he felt a little tearful.

This is a great scientist and computer expert.

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

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

As long as he applies for a patent for the WWW World Wide Web, this invention that belongs only to him will allow everyone online in the world to pay him patent fees, which is only a fraction of hundreds of billions of dollars! !

But Tim Berners-Lee didn't do that.

Although we live in an era where patents are everywhere and inventions create wealth everywhere.

Although he knew that this would definitely make him rich and have endless money.

The decision he made was the sentence above.

This is for eveyone.

free.

Make the Internet free for everyone in the world.

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

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

"Time" rated Tim Berners-Lee as one of the 100 most outstanding scientists in the world throughout history, and said that the World Wide Web belongs to Tim Berners-Lee alone.

Its review reads: "Unlike all inventions and creations that promote human progress, this is purely a personal labor achievement. The significance of his invention in the development of information globalization can be compared with ancient printing."

You might say that Tim Berners-Lee is a fool. Even though he collects patent fees, it will not affect his great inventions or prevent him from being recorded in history.

But people are unwilling to make money from this. They believe that the technological Internet belongs to everyone in the world. They cannot selfishly occupy it, but should open it up so that everyone can 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 selfish interests and ruthlessness.

It was on the NeXT workbench computer that Tim created the first web page in human history.

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

There is no doubt that Yin Jun thinks this is a great moment. It is more admired and loved than when Bill Gates stood on the throne of the world's richest man and pointed the country.

Even if Tim Berners-Lee only has a few hundred thousand Twitter fans, it is still less than one percent of our domestic young celebrities and beautiful female celebrities. Even network anchors and broadcasters can compare with this number. Dozens of times more.

But does this detract from the greatness of Tim Berners-Lee?

Not at all!

In Yin Jun's view, scientists 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 because the Nobel Prize was awarded to him, it becomes even more glorious.

Of course, in fact, Tim Berners-Lee has won many awards. He has received a British knighthood, a foreign academician of the National Academy of Sciences, a Turing Award, etc., etc., all of which have been given to him. In addition to hundreds of millions in his life, , billions of dollars in money, everything else he has can be said to be very satisfying.

Tim Berners-Lee is also wildly loved and sought after by people in the industry.

In fact, why is Android free? Do you think GOOGLE is a fool? Isn't that because the Android system is developed based on the LINUX system, and the inventor of the LINUX system, Linus Torvalds, once said at the beginning of the invention that all users who use LINUX must be free and open?

Linus Torvalds is a huge fan of Tim Berners-Lee!

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

Of course, he was not going to simply pay homage to his idol, nor was he going to buy the patent for the WWW World Wide Web - at this time, it was still almost 9 years before Tim Berners-Lee released the first web page of the World Wide Web.

Besides, Tim Berners-Lee's character is such that no matter how much Yin Jun tries to impress him with money, he won't pay attention.

It is definitely impossible for Yin Jun to be such a villain.

In his opinion, Tim Berners-Lee's free opening of the World Wide Web is one of the most commendable decisions in the world.

Just like if WINDOWS did not open up as a free platform, various computer programs, software, games, etc., would never be able to develop so fast, and technological development would not develop so fast.

If the World Wide Web was charged from the beginning, there would be very few people who could afford it, and many smart people with no money but brains would naturally not be able to invent and create wantonly on it.

Let’s not talk about the 80s and 90s. In 2003, when Mark Zuckerberg invented the great Facebook in his dormitory at Harvard University, as soon as he went online, he had to pay a fee for the World Wide Web. The longer it takes, the higher the charge. Will Facebook, a software that communicates with the world, still exist in this world?

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

Yin Jun went to Europe this time not only to persuade Tim Berners-Lee to build a paid WWW, but also to strongly support him to build the World Wide Web as soon as possible and open it to the world as soon as possible. To all the computer enthusiasts out there.

Only in this way can various softwares spring up like mushrooms after a rain, spread, and promote the development of network and technology.

In particular, the various 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, it was only last year that Tim Berners-Lee began to have this idea 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 was like and what needed to be done to make web pages, browsers, etc. better, he still needed time to digest it. Then it can be applied to practice.

Yin Jun couldn't do this himself. He could only provide advice, but he couldn't go into battle himself.

To put it bluntly, in this era where even WINDOWS systems are not available, and there are no dual-core or quad-core processors, GPUs and CPUs are extremely inefficient, he can't even use a computer freely, let alone develop programs and programs in it. software.

That's not his expertise at all.

As a guide and guide of ideas, this is his most suitable position now.