When he came to Hong Kong this time, Li Yuan was actually fully prepared. Even if his down payment plan of minus 20 failed, he still had a backup plan to make money - a browser!

Since the funding gap is so big, it’s probably useless to copy a few more books. It’s better to find ways to make quick money in the Internet industry that you are familiar with.

At this time, people have not realized that they are witnessing the arrival of a new era, that is - the Internet era!

Just last year and the year before that, there were only a few dozen Internet servers in the world. But by this year, there were already more than 1 million. By the end of the year, there were even 34 million.

If we wait until next year, the number will reach 89 million units. By the next year, 1995, there will be 18 million households in the United States with DE.

In this era of Internet, the United States is roughly equivalent to the whole world, and users from other places are almost ignored.

For example, Dafu Media's... underground horse racing betting spot! They just set up a dedicated line, which is basically an internal LAN. There is very little time to access the Internet, and it is also particularly troublesome to access the Internet. At most, it counts as one overseas user outside of North America.

Therefore, in this context, you first need a browser. Otherwise, every time you surf the Internet, you need a long and complicated operation, and the operation is so fast that you can open a web page in half a day? If you want to open another web page, you need to

Another operation as fierce as a tiger?

Obviously, this is very unfriendly to novices. Moreover, the threshold is very high, blocking out the vast majority of lay users who don’t know much about it.

In fact, this is also true.

Just this spring, that is, just a few months ago, Anderson, a computer student at the National Supercomputing Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was tired of working for the evil capitalists every day.

Every day, I "operate like a tiger" before surfing the Internet for others.

In fact, this is the same as in China. Many graduate students are also tired of working for their "boss" and doing ineffective dirty work. There is nothing new under the sun, and this is the case in almost every country.

It's just that Anderson is very talented, and his mobility is off the charts. In the end, he and a colleague worked on and off for three months to release a browser called ac, which later became the Netscape browser.

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Domestic Shadiao netizens used the transliteration and called it "Mosaic". Anyway, this name is not very auspicious. Later, there were a lot of mosaics on the Internet resources, and basic trust between people was lost.

This is actually the junior version of the Netscape browser. Of course, like many domestic college students and graduate students, the honors and achievements belong to the school! They all belong to the boss's mentor! And Anderson didn't even make a profit?

So after leaving college, Anderson quickly obtained venture capital and founded Netscape. He developed the Netscape browser, the second version, and it was a great success.

When Netscape went public in August 1995, it became a generation in the Internet era. Andreessen himself also became a billionaire and an upstart on the Internet.

However, on the second day after Netscape went public, Microsoft also launched an epoch-making product - the dw95 operating system! It also bundled its own browser e for free.

By the way, e is the ac that Microsoft purchased directly from c using its own financial capabilities. In fact, it was Anderson himself who was beating himself up.

Needless to say the rest of the story is the love-hate relationship between Microsoft and Netscape. And Microsoft used its monopoly position and free browsers to eventually kill Netscape.

In the end, Netscape was merged and acquired by AOL. A generation of the Internet also ended miserably.

However, before the tragic end, Netscape simply disclosed its source code. And the new generation of programmers developed a new generation of browser Firefox based on this source code...

And almost all future browsers are derived from Andreessen's Netscape...

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After understanding this, you should know that Li Yuan was originally not very interested in developing browsers.

First of all, the conditions are not mature. There is not even an Internet in China, so why develop it?

Secondly, the future is bleak. In other words, there is no future at all.

In the face of the giant Microsoft, even Netscape was on the verge of death, and Li Yuan didn't think he had the ability to survive.

Moreover, Microsoft is taking advantage of its monopoly position, which cannot be compensated for by burning money or technology. Besides, the browser only has a few functions and cannot produce a flower in technology? It cannot form a technological crush. So faced with

There is really no way to break Microsoft's monopoly, and it is destined to end in a disastrous defeat.

Taking a step back, in the future, all browsers will be free. How can you make money if you are free? Are you and Microsoft fighting to death just for a free result?

That’s just for filling up!

The last point is simplicity.

After a few decades, browser technology has become quite mature. To be honest, it can be easily developed by just a few university monks, and the difficulty is not even as difficult as a graduation thesis.

Li Yuan couldn't feel any sense of accomplishment from such a thankless task.

Let me explain here, the last point is the most important! It’s so simple, brother, I have no interest at all!

Therefore, at the beginning, Li Yuan did not want to touch any of the three hot spots in the early Internet era - portals, browsers and search engines.

These three hot spots are indeed the most basic things. But basic things do not represent a profit model, nor do they mean high technical difficulty. These three hot spots are indeed indispensable in the future, but they are also half-dead and all are free.

To put it bluntly, if you really need it in the future, you can definitely pay to buy one. Why bother to spend all your money? You might as well spend a few more years.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, Li Yuan wanted salted fish, but the pig girl did not allow it? The eldest lady made a surprise attack and quickly acquired Haishang Loan, which suddenly put them in a difficult situation.

financial difficulties.

Now I have no choice but to resort to off-board tricks like browsers.

But having said that, simplicity also has its benefits.

On the one hand, programming is not very difficult. Relying on Li Yuan's ability, there is no problem in working alone.

This is just like Anderson developing AC, with only one companion to help, and it only took three months. And it was still in intermittent spare time. The total code is only more than 9,000 lines?

On the other hand, we are now standing at the forefront of the trend. Just like Netscape in the original history, the peak is the debut! It means that it has become a pig in the trend.

Li Yuan definitely doesn't have as big ambitions as Netscape. But since he has already stood on this trend, can he do it by eating enough and drinking from the Football Association? The requirements are not high - it is easy to make a lot of quick money!

So after receiving Huang Jiaojiao's call, Li Yuan actually started programming the browser. Besides filming the movie, he completed the program for the browser. It only took more than a month.

To be honest, in the ac browser, which is the primary version of Netscape, the difficulty is not in programming, but in a development idea.

In its original history, ac was not actually the first browser, but it was the browser that dominated the market and shaped the future. It was the first browser that looked like modern personal computer software because it had

Buttons, scroll bars and drop-down menus and other modern things.

But perhaps the most important thing about ac is that a new tl element "g" was born, so that for the first time, web pages can put pictures and text together!

At the time, the decision to extend TL to handle images in this way was controversial in some quarters, primarily because image files tend to be much larger than text files, and many believed that transferring images was a waste of scarce bandwidth, and considered excessive

Pictures can bring down the entire network.

But Anderson insists that people won't flood the Internet with boring image files, and even if they do, he thinks that the problem can be solved by increasing the load capacity of the system.

To put it more clearly, Anderson doesn't know how the Internet will develop in the future, and current hardware does limit the development of the Internet.

But Anderson just dared to make a bet! Bet that Internet users would grow exponentially, and that hardware equipment, especially bandwidth problems, would be solved soon.

There is no doubt that Anderson made the right bet! Netscape also achieved great success!

However, Li Yuan doesn't need to gamble at all? The reborn idiot has long known the correct answer, and he will definitely follow this correct idea. In other words, he and Anderson "thought of going together."

But on the other hand, the real Netscape browser, that is, the second generation, has become a very mature commercial software.

That was after the establishment of Netscape, Anderson established a technical team and developed it for more than a year. Moreover, their development continued all night long. It was definitely not 996, but almost 007. I couldn't stand the employees who resigned.

That’s 15 people.

Critically, Netscape also created the front-end scripting language: avacrpt.

Anyone who knows something about computer languages ​​should know that decades later, avacrpt is still one of the most popular languages, even before Li Yuan was reborn.

Of course Li Yuan can master avacrpt proficiently. But let him fully create and perfect this computer language? Even if it is copying, I can't do it?

And with such a huge workload, Li Yuan can't do it alone. In addition, there is no need to be so far ahead, otherwise he will be dragged in and sliced.

So in the end, the browser developed by Li Yuan was slightly ahead of the ac browser, but a little behind the Netscape browser.

In this way, you can stand on this trend without arousing suspicion from others. What you want is safety!

Besides, if you build the browser in one step, how can you upgrade it in the future? How many waves of money can you make?

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In the office, Li Yuanzheng and Huang Jiaojiao were discussing the browser.

"Jiaojiao, your Yongliang has completed his historical mission. Just give the re-export trade business to Brother Dongsheng..."

"Why?" The eldest lady immediately became furious, like a little cat whose tail was stepped on, "Why should I give my things to my second brother? It's already good that I won't rob him. Also, my Yongliang

Did I provoke you? Are you so disgusted with it?"

"Listen to what I have to say. Yongliang's software business is discounted by 2 million..."

"Li Yuan! I'm suing you! Two million? Are you sending beggars? Do you know how much I can earn in a year by acting as an agent for the Haechi system?"

"Hey! Auntie, I'm talking about U.S. dollars!" Realizing that the eldest lady, a pregnant woman, had a very unstable temper, Li Yuan quickly finished the sentence, "I have registered a parallel network technology company in Beijing. My parallel browsing

Computer Technology's investment in the company is equivalent to US$3 million, and your Yongliang software business is equivalent to US$2 million."

When she heard it was U.S. dollars, the eldest lady glanced sideways and said, "You told me earlier. You have so many tricks, so why use U.S. dollars?"

"Isn't it just to deceive...isn't it to convince the idiots from the United States?" Li Yuan explained with a smile, "With those software businesses, we can inflate the valuation of Parallel Line. By then we will have

Stocks are also valuable. Then the bubble will be blown bigger and bigger! It is best to list on Nasdaq as soon as possible..."

At this moment, Li Yuan couldn't help but feel excited, finally looking forward to the old routine that he was very familiar with. There is still a lot of water in the Internet industry!

"Hey, what a bad name and parallel lines?" Huang Jiaojiao sneered, "I don't want a shareholding, I want 2 million US dollars. Xiao Yuanzi, is this what you said? Don't go back on your word. Hehehehe."

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Li Yuan was puzzled. How did this little pig become stupid? What kind of brain circuit does she have? "Jiaojiao, don't you know about financing and listing? And this time it is listed on NASDAQ in the United States! Let's start making money.
To be continued...