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

Is it the world's first commercially available Motorola phone to be launched the following year? Or the iPhone that has once again changed life?

Is it a 3G network that realizes the networking function of the mobile phone? Or is it a wireless wifi function?

Is it a Twitter that makes communication more convenient? Or does it become a Facebook in an online world? Or does it form a small circle of WeChat with Chinese characteristics? Or does it later become a Weibo that is full of demons?

Yin Jun felt that none of these were.

The greatest invention is the most prerequisite for the above inventions...

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

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

Only when the Internet can be communicated, with the main premise of the Internet, can there be various network communication tools developed through the Internet in the future, and will it have a future as brilliant as Apple and smartphones that no one dares to imagine!

Without it, Apple is just a phone that can make phone calls, and at best it is a bit better.

Without the World Wide Web, we can't see any twitter, WeChat, Weibo and other things today.

To put it more professionally, although the Internet was found in the 1960s, it could only transmit some data, find documents, files, etc. at that time. It belongs to a small-scale network and cannot link various hosts and servers. There is no transmission protocol. Of course, it cannot see the colorful web pages we see now.

How does a web page be considered complete?

It must include dynamic pictures, links, music, programs, etc., so that we see the web pages every day.

And this is what the html hypertext protocol covers.

If you pay attention, the English display of all open web pages must be "." at the beginning and the ending must be ".html". However, some web pages simplify these representations.

It is precisely because the html hypertext protocol was grafted onto the inter that we can see these pictures and texts today. This is why our colorful online life has changed everything later.

The unity of these two comes from one person's contribution only.

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

If you watch the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics carefully, you will find that Chapter 6 is a part that makes ordinary people a little confused.

Its name is "Frank and Jon said, thanks Tim".

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

“this is for everyone”

This line of words spread to every corner of the world along with the TV screen.

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 he felt a little filled with tears in his eyes anyway.

This is a great scientist and computer expert.

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

No matter what Bill Gates, Buffett, Ma Yun, Zuckerberg, etc. are tied together, they will not be richer than him.

As long as he applied for a patent for the World Wide Web, this invention that belongs only to him can make all people in the world pay him a patent fee, and hundreds of billions of dollars are just a fraction!!

But Tim Berners Lee didn't do that.

Although living in an era where patents are flying everywhere, there are inventions and wealth everywhere.

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

The decision he made was the above sentence.

this is for everyone.

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 the Internet.

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

Time magazine named Tim Berners Lee one of the 100 most outstanding scientists in the world throughout history, and said that the World Wide Web belongs only to Tim Berners Lee.

Its comment reads as follows: "Unlike all inventions that drive the human process, this is purely a personal labor result. The significance of his invention in the development of information globalization can be comparable to ancient printing."

You might say that Tim Berners Lee is a fool. Even though he charges a patent fee, it will not affect his great inventions and will not prevent him from entering history.

But people are unwilling to make money by relying on this, believing that the technology and Internet belong to everyone in the world, and they cannot selfishly occupy it, but should be opened and released so that everyone can have it.

However, you have to respect this great scientist. It is precisely because of such a great person in the world that we can feel a hint of warmth in this human world full of pure interests and indifference.

Back then, Tim made the first web page in human history on the next workbench computer.

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

There is no doubt that Yin Jun believes that this is a great moment. Compared to Bill Gates's throne of the richest man in the world and giving guidance to the country, it makes people look forward to it and love it.

Even Tim Berners Lee's Twitter fans are only a few hundred thousand, which is not as good as one percent of our domestic young and beautiful female stars, and even online hosts and broadcasters can be dozens of times more than this number.

But does this detriment to Tim Berners Lee's greatness?

Not at all!

In Yin Jun's opinion, scientists like this should award more honorary awards to him 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, which seems even more glorious.

Of course, in fact, Tim Berners Lee won many awards, including Sir, Foreign Academician of the National Academy of Sciences, Turing Award, etc., all of them were given to him. In this life, except for hundreds of millions and billions of dollars in money, everything else he had can be said to be very satisfied.

Tim Berners Lee is also crazyly loved and sought after by industry insiders.

In fact, why is Android free? Are you a fool when you think Google is a fool? Isn't it because the Android system is developed based on the Linux system, and Linus Towáz, the inventor of the Linux system, once said at the beginning that all users who use Linux must be free and open?

Linus Towáz is the hardcore crazy fan of Tim Berners Lee!

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

Of course, he wouldn't be just visiting idols, nor could he buy the patent of the World Wide Web.com. At this time, it was almost 9 years before Tim Berners Lee released the first web page of the World Wide Web.

Besides, Tim Berners Lee's personality determines that even if Yin Jun uses money to impress him, he will not pay attention to it.

Yin Jun definitely couldn't be such a villain.

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

Just like if Windows is not open and free platforms, various computer programs, software, games, etc. will definitely not develop so rapidly, and technology will not develop so quickly.

If the World Wide Web had charged from the beginning, there would be very few people who could afford it. Many smart people who had no money but had a mind would naturally not be able to invent and create randomly on it.

We don’t talk about other 1980s and 1990s. In 2003, when Mark Zuckerberg invented the great faebook in his dormitory at Harvard University, if he had to pay the fee as soon as he was online, the longer he used it, the higher the fee, will there be any software for the communication world of faebooks appear in this world?

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

This time Yin Jun went to Europe, not only did he not want to persuade Tim Berners and Li to make a fee-based World Wide Web, but he also had to strongly support him so that he could get the World Wide Web out faster and open it earlier. He would give it to all computer enthusiasts in the world.

This will lead to the emergence and spread of various software like mushrooms after a rain, and promote the development of the network and technology.

In particular, the various special effect production software, hardware, and various talents needed by Yin Jun continue to emerge and be used by Yin Jun.

Of course, this requires a process.

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

Even if Yin Jun went to Europe and told Tim Berners Lee about what the mature World Wide Web is like, what needs to be done to better build web pages, browsers, etc., he would need time to digest it before it can be applied to the actual situation.

Yin Jun himself could not do this. He could only provide advice and could not go into battle by himself.

To be honest, in this era when even the Windows system was not even inefficient in dual-core, quad-core processors, GPUs and CPUs, he couldn't even use computers, let alone develop programs and software in it.

His expertise is not that at all.

As a guide and a guide to thought, he is the most suitable position for now.
Chapter completed!