Chapter 407

"The University of Minnesota charged their gopher, and now we're all playing the NCSA mosaic of UIUC."

The city of Champaign is 200 kilometers away from Chicago. They drive south. On the way, Andrew and Henry give song Yap some latest trends in the Internet industry.

However, the professional language in their words was a little difficult for song ya to understand, so he could not stop interrupting, "wait, wait, wait, what is gopher? What is mosaic? "

"Gopher is an application layer protocol based on TCPIP. It has its own interface and retrieval system. Users can access gopher server on the network through port 70 to search or download materials. It's very easy to use. Unfortunately, there are more and more users and the network is congested. The University of Minnesota has stopped providing free access since February. "

Andrew explained, "didn't our company just pay for the service? You don't know? Some music industry information can be easily searched through gopher's all music database. "

Song Ya took a glance at this small expenditure and then signed it. It's not the point, is it? What about NCSA mosaic? "

"Ncsamosaic is a world wide web browser based on HTTP, and it is still in the testing stage. We have participated in the volunteer program and helped to give advice and so on." "He's cool and supports graphical interfaces," Henry said

"It's just very unstable." Andrew doesn't like it. "It doesn't matter if it looks too fancy. The plain text gopher client is pretty handy."

Song Ya half understood and asked. Time passed quickly. Under Andrew's guidance, old Mike parked his car in a parking lot on UIUC campus.

Just got out of the car, next to the girl's inspiration, "aplus?" It seems that many of the girls in the public university gathered behind their faces, and then asked for more courage than the others in the University.

"It's OK, Mike."

Stop the old Mike, song Ya smile for them on the clothes or books quickly sign.

"Will you and Fergie get back together?"

"You shouldn't have been seduced by her best friend, aplus."

"Will you transfer here?"

The girls took the opportunity to ask questions.

"Nice to meet you. Hello, yes. It's a nice day." Song Ya waved goodbye to them, some tall male athletes cast a bad look, the school's sports are also good, especially football and basketball, of course, now there will be no bully to come.

"This way." Two skilled men, familiar with their cars, took him to NCSA, a red four story building.

After registering in the visitor's book, he went into a computer room with two rows of computers, some slovenly plaid shirts, sitting in front of the computer, concentrating on typing. When they saw the big stars coming in, they raised their eyelids and continued to be busy.

"They are all volunteers who come to participate in exchange activities like us. In fact, they all come to play."

Said Henry in a low voice. They were all familiar faces, and they used to greet them affectionately, "sit here." Andrew asked Sonya to sit down in front of a computer that was turned on with a single gray browser client interface on the screen.

"I'll teach you how to operate."

Andrew began to teach, "see the URL bar above? You type HTTP, then a colon, then a double slash... "

Song Ya is very smooth operation, double slash immediately after the WWW point.

"You've played the world wide web." Andrew said with a smile, but did not take it to heart: "point after NCSA, point, mosaic..."

After reporting the website, song Ya didn't wait for him to teach him to knock down the carriage return.

A web page with ncsamosaic graphic logo quickly appeared, "it's very fast here, we can't do it at home, this image is unnecessary, it will always load for a long time..."

Technology house is not a bit of cannibalism, feeling that the big star is really to understand the cutting-edge technology, so one by one quietly gathered behind song ya to watch.

"Technology will move forward, and so will network speed." Some people disagree that "graphical interface, what you see is what you get" is the general trend

"Now you can use the mouse." Andrew continued to teach.

"Oh."

Song ya swips the mouse, randomly selects a blue hyperlink font, the pointer moves over and points the left button.

Page jump again, and then load half stuck, "huh?" He looked at Andrew.

Behind the technical house people burst out a burst of laughter, "normal phenomenon, the picture in the page uses too much." Someone explained."You brush..." As soon as Andrew opened his mouth, he saw Sonya skillfully move the pointer to the round refresh icon with an arrow on the top of the client and click.

The page is loaded again from the beginning.

"You must have played with this." Henry was upset. He might feel that the boss was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. "No one knows what the icon is for the first time."

"Er..."

Song Ya didn't want to explain to him the familiar feeling that he had once in a while for no reason. "I don't know this at all. It's really the first operation."

Still loaded to half stuck, he pressed the small triangle back button to the left of the refresh icon, and the page returned to the previous home page.

"These icons are easy to understand, right?" Asked someone behind him.

"Yes." Song Ya replied that this familiar feeling should be caused by his fuzzy memory, so this browser will be a big fire in the future? It's true that we can invest in NCSA. I just heard that NCSA has sufficient funds, and the funding comes from the government, which is also related to the firm support of Senator gore. It is impossible to accept external investors.

"Mark." Henry said to the man who had just answered, "is it really not considered to remove the graphic function?"

"Henry, don't mention it, will you? HTML supports the image function The man named Mark responded.

"This is Mark Anderson, and NCSA mosaic was done by him and bina." Andrew introduced Sonya.

"Hello."

At least, Mr. Anderson can not stand up to bully the other student like Mr. Anderson. He can't even stand up and bully his classmates.

"Hello aplus, are you here for UIUC? Or does the University of Chicago have a similar program? "

The guy finished the handshake with vigilance on his face.

"I don't know. I'm just a freshman."

Song Ya said with a smile, "this browser is great. Did you write it?"

"Yes, bina and I, just two people."

After a while, another programmer, bina, also came. The white man was the standard programmer. He was thin, with glasses, bad at communication and bookish.

A group of people stood up and chatted with each other. Most of the time, it was technical people who put forward various suggestions. The atmosphere of discussion was very good.

"The beta version of 1.0 will be released in June."

Bina gave an approximate time point, "we should add FTP and gopher compatible features then."

Song Ya took the opportunity to pull Andrew and Henry aside. "Help me ask if they accept investment. It's quiet." He said.

"This is NCSA..." Their expressions were like hearing a joke, "I thought you just wanted to get to know the cutting edge of the Internet, boss." Henry said.

"NCSA doesn't pay attention to this browser? Just give it to two programmers. Isn't it feasible to put it out for commercialization? " Song Ya asked.

"I'll ask bina. He's full-time. Mark's just an undergraduate to help." Andrew went to bina for a private chat, and the other party refused.

"Then you keep in touch with this side." Song Ya is not without regret, and stayed to play for a while, the more operation feel more inexplicable sense of familiarity.

Back in Chicago, I still pondered over the browser. "I have to ask someone who knows how." He called Jeffrey Hawkins, the founder of palm.

"Web browser, commercialization?"

Hawkins, of course, knows a lot about it, but he doesn't think much of it. "Nowadays, those who engage in the Internet are idealists. They are all crying out for freedom and free. Gopher of the University of Minnesota has not made much money after charging, and he has been scolded a lot. Now network services are supported by funds from universities and research institutions. The military that used to engage in ARPANET did not seek money and could not find a profitable direction. We'd better concentrate on hardware, aplus. Our first generation of PDA products will soon come out. If you can put in more money, maybe we can go ahead of apple... "

This guy took the opportunity to ask for money again.

But he doesn't know that he is also a shareholder of apple now. Hum, let's go to the competition freely, and whoever wins will do.

Song Ya hang up the phone, always feel unwilling, and think of something, to a + pedal company general manager Riise hang up the phone.

"Did you forget the last time we talked about Silicon Valley real estate?"

"Although the name of a high-tech project is in Sunnyvale, is web browser high-tech?"

This is a way, song Ya pondered again.

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