Chapter 120 Netscape and Yahoo

Li Xiaofan hesitated for a moment and replied: "My dear, it may not be convenient. I have talked to you before, and I shared the townhouse with two girls. The two girls had agreed on the overbearing rental terms that I You can’t bring outsiders into the dormitory casually. If you are brought in, you need permission from both of them first..."

When Tang Xinyi heard this, she frowned and said angrily: "There is such a domineering clause! I would like to see how domineering the two of them are! Am I not allowed to go in even if I am your girlfriend? "

While the two were talking in the car, Tang Xinyi's phone rang. It was her sister-in-law Yilin calling.

"Shh... my sister-in-law's phone number!" Xinyi signaled Li Xiaofan to be silent for the time being.

"Hello, sister-in-law, good evening!"

"Xinyi, where are you?" Yilin asked on the phone.

"Sister-in-law, I'm with Brother Xiaofan. In the afternoon, he has two businessmen from Dubai in the Middle East. They must visit our company's office and see the gift box drawings I designed. Later, I accompanied Brother Xiaofan to negotiate with them. , we also treated them to dinner, and finally negotiated a large order of sunglasses. Now we have just sent the guests to their hotel in Changi..."

"Oh, that's it, that's great! Xinyi, next time you don't go home for dinner, remember to call home so that we don't worry! Dad was looking for my eldest brother and you two siblings just now. Your mommy came from Tokyo called your father. After the call, he was a little angry when he saw that you brothers and sisters were not at home. He might have something to talk to you brothers and sisters about..."

"Sister-in-law, I understand. Please advise my father. He must not be angry about his problems! Then I will come back right away!"

"Well, drive slower and pay attention to safety! I also called your elder brother. He may have been a little drunk outside and couldn't speak clearly. Hey..."

After hanging up the phone, Tang Xinyi hugged Li Xiaofan and gave her a quick, passionate kiss. She said softly: "Dear, my father probably had an argument with my mother on the phone again. The old man has such a temper that I have to rush back right away." Yeah! Then change the time to check your room next time, and check with the two mainland girls you live with to see if there are any hidden gems in your room!"

"Haha, you are still joking at this time! Go back quickly and advise your father to be safe on the road!"

"Well, come on, kiss me again!"

Bah bah, another passionate kiss.

Finally, Tang Xinyi reluctantly drove away from Changi Beach Park.

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Early the next morning, when Li Xiaofan went to the market for breakfast, he passed by a 7-11 convenience store and bought a copy of that day's Lianhe Zaobao for SGD 60.

Sitting in the market, biting into toast with kaya jam, drinking coffee, and reading the newspaper.

Suddenly, there was news on the side page that attracted Li Xiaofan's great attention.

Today, the entire subpage is almost devoted to introducing and popularizing science about the "Internet", which is the "Internet" that is now in bad shape. At that time, the Internet was still called the "Internet". Singapore was one of the first Asian countries to access the international Internet.

The news said that the Singapore National Computer Commission officially took over the registration and service functions of SGNIC domain names. Originally, in the early 1990s, the SGNIC domain name was authorized to the National University of Singapore.

SGNIC is the abbreviation of Singapore Network Information Centre, and its Chinese name is: Singapore Network Information Center.

The news said that the Singaporean government attaches great importance to planning the future of informatization and has formulated a series of national strategies to develop the information industry since 1980. In 1980, Singapore established the National Computer Commission and formulated the first five-year development plan "National Computerization Plan".

In 1992, the Singapore government further implemented the national information infrastructure plan "IT2000", which planned to build a nationwide high-speed broadband multimedia network within 10 years, popularize information technology, and establish a more closely connected electronic society regionally and globally, transforming Singapore into Build a smart island and a global IT center. The article reviews the results of the three years of "IT2000" implementation and examines the shortcomings...

After reading the news, Li Xiaofan fell into deep thought. Damn it, it turns out that Singapore’s history of accessing the international Internet is much earlier than he thought!

Another column of news introduced that there are currently about 40 million Internet users in the world. The United States ranks first with about 25 million, Japan second with about 2 million, Germany with about 1.5 million, and third The fourth is about 1.2 million in Canada, and the fifth is about 1.1 million in the United Kingdom...

In his previous life, Li Xiaofan remembered that it was only in 1997 that Singapore started to launch the "Singapore one" plan to encourage citizens and government departments and agencies across the island to access the Internet, and set the goal of 90% of households having Cable Modem (cable modem) and ADSL broadband networks. He remembered that in 1997, the year when Hong Kong Island returned to China, computers that allowed readers to access the Internet for free appeared in various national libraries on the streets of Singapore...

Unexpectedly, in 1992, the Singapore government already had an advanced "IT2000" plan to build a smart island.

The last article in this sub-edition introduces an American company called Netscape, which was the famous American Netscape Corporation that was famous for its web browser Netscape Navigator of the same name!

This article details the development history of the American Netscape Corporation:

In 1993, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois in the United States published a browser named "Mosaic", which was very popular at the time.

Subsequently, Mark Anderson, the central figure in the development of the "1saic" browser, and Jim Clark, the founder of Silicon Graphics, established "MOSAIC Communication Corp" in California.

After the establishment of MOSAIC, the development team had to completely rewrite the browser code because NCSA of the University of Illinois owned the trademark copyright of Mosaic.

So in October 1994, the browser Mosaic Netscape 0.9 developed by the company was released and achieved great success, becoming the most popular browser at the time.

In November 1994, in order to avoid trademark ownership issues with NCSA, MOSAIC changed its name to Netscape Communications Corporation.

In December 1994, the official version of Netscape Navigator 1.0 was released, and the software was renamed Netscape Navigator.

The article said that so far, Netscape's Netscape Navigator Navigator product has the largest market share in the global browser market. Almost 99% of Internet users around the world use this browser. Netscape plans to IPO on the NASDAQ market in the United States in a few months...

This morning, Li Xiaofan is going to attend classes at the ITE Institute of Technical Education in Tampines.

Sitting on bus No. 2, Li Xiaofan has been reading this full-page supplement. He thought of another Internet company far away in Silicon Valley, USA: Yahoo!

If I remember correctly, Jerry Yang and his partner David Filo should have just registered and established Yahoo this month.