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Chapter 48 Decisions by the Lake

“Woo woo woo woo…”

Chen Dayou drove the gtr and ran on the empty suburban highway at a speed of more than 150 kilometers per hour, shouting: "This car is so exciting!"

"Drive slowly."

"Damn! You bought such a great high-performance car, what's the point of driving slowly?" Having said that, Chen Dayou lowered the car to 120 kilometers and asked, "How much does this car cost?"

"I sold more than 5 million yen in Japan. I asked someone to smuggle in from Hong Kong, and it's more than 600,000."

"It's not expensive for more than 600,000 yuan?" Chen Dayou patted the steering wheel and sighed: "I'm so poor now that I'm going to eat instant noodles. You are so rich that you are in the mood to play with high-performance modified cars... The yen has dropped quite a lot recently, and you've made a lot of money, right?"

"It's not much, it's just over one million dollars."

"I shouldn't have started a company with you, I should have gone to trade foreign exchange with you." Chen Dayou cursed in annoyance, turned from the expressway into a fork full of sand, parked the gtr on the grass on the side of the road, and said, "Let's go over. If this car breaks the territory, I can't afford to repair it."

The sun was still very vicious at around 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Du Qiu pushed open the car door and immediately felt a wave of heat coming. He raised his hand to block his forehead, looked at the reservoir dam not far away, and asked, "Is this area ours?"

"There is no such cheap thing. The city plans to take advantage of the opportunity of building a software park to connect the economic development zone with this side and build a new urban area of ​​Yuncheng. The surrounding area is reserved for government agencies and is not allowed to be used."

It is similar to what I remember, and this place will become the seat of the municipal government in the future...

However, if Snapdragon does not appear, construction will not start until 5 years later...

"Actually, Secretary Zhong wants us to set up a software park directly in the Economic and Technological Development Zone." Chen Dayou led Du Qiu along the dirt road towards the reservoir and said, "The construction started there in 1993, and the five connections and one level has been completed. It is very convenient to move in and there are many open spaces."

"The development zone is full of low-end manufacturing industries that are processed incoming materials. It is not the same type as us. It is too noisy and the scenery is not as good as here."

Majiaqiao Reservoir is an old reservoir built in the 1950s for flood control. Now the river water has shrunk a lot and has completely lost its function. It has become a small lake of about 2,500 acres. After walking by the lake for a while, Du Qiu found a shade to rest. Looking at the sparkling water surface, he said, "The water is quite clean, better than Fengle Lake."

"Not to mention factories nearby, there are even fewer residents, so of course they are clean." Chen Dayou pointed to a small hill above the reservoir and said, "There is also a botanical garden over there, with mountains and rivers on the back, birds singing and flowers blooming. If the company built its own residential building, it would be built nearby."

The hill was only a few dozen meters high and round, like an upside-down bowl, with no aesthetics or characteristics, so it didn't even have a name. However, more than ten years later, a developer built a high-end villa group called Luomeizhuang, and the mountain was thus called Meihua Mountain.

Du Qiu took out a map from his pants pocket, checked the area initially assigned to the software park based on the terrain, and then said with unsatisfactory words: "1,000 acres are a little short, it would be great if there could be 5,000 acres."

"What do you want such a big land to do? We are building a software park, not an industrial park. 1,000 acres is enough to last for many years."

Du Qiu smiled but said nothing. He really didn't need a lot of land to build software, but this was just the first step for him to change his hometown according to his own wishes. In the future, when there was more money, there were still many other projects to do, and such a little land was far from enough.

Chen Dayou found a stone and sat down, looked at the reservoir for a while and then asked, "Du Qiu, when will the email you mentioned last time be ready?"

“It’s October.”

"I heard from Dawei that when you were at Microsoft, you did your best and helped them make the ie browser better than the iView browser?"

"Ie is a little better than the current iview, but you don't have to worry. After Windows 95 is officially released, I will update the iview soon." Du Qiu looked down at the map and said in a casual manner: "Microsoft and Netscape's browsers are all small wooden houses piled on the beach, which are vulnerable."

"Is that right?" Chen Dayou picked up a branch and threw it to him, saying, "Why is it vulnerable? Please be more specific."

Du Qiu took off the map, moved a stone and sat opposite him, drew a branch on the ground, and said, "The http protocol is currently in version 09. This version has only one line of commands, I plan to expand it..."

The p protocol is one of the basic Internet protocols and is also the most well-known noun for netizens, because almost all websites start with these four letters, which is extremely important. However, this protocol was very simple in 1995 and could only respond to html-format strings, not other formats. Until the release of the 10th edition in May 1996, it could not only transmit text, but also images, videos and binary files, which brought the development of the Internet into the fast lane.

Du Qiu took out the 11th edition released in January 1997. This is the most stable version of the http protocol. It was used until 2015 and was replaced by the 20th edition. Although Chen Dayou changed his career to study theoretical physics, he never gave up on computers. Recently, he dealt with the Internet every day and was a person who knew the goods. After listening to it, he praised: "Du Qiu, you are so awesome. You have actually improved the http protocol so much. If iView implements this protocol, it will be directly overwhelming the ten streets of Netscape and Microsoft!"

"It's nothing. With Netscape as a pawn in front, we can just follow and improve it later." Du Qiu said modestly, and added an s after the four letters of http on the ground with branches, saying: "For example, the https agreement they set up in March this year has a good idea, but the SSL solution proposed has several major loopholes, which I can easily break..."

Netscape is considered to be one of the greatest companies in the history of Internet development, because it has only existed for 3 years, but it has left behind a brilliant legacy such as https, cookies, JavaSC, and other benefits the Internet.

PS is the abbreviation of the hypertext transmission security protocol. With this protocol, the security of important information such as netizens' shopping, online banking and email is equivalent to the security door on the Internet. However, the Netscape is not perfect, and the SSL30 version released after the battle with Microsoft in 1996 was not relatively perfect.

If the Internet is compared to land and browsers are compared to houses, Du Qiu started with the http and https protocols, which is equivalent to changing the cornerstone of the entire Internet and allowing the iView browser to be built on concrete, while Netscape and Microsoft's current browsers are still built on the beach, so there is no competition at all...

Chen Dayou has been hesitating whether to stay in China as a CEO that is not worthy of its name, or go to the United States to concentrate on promoting browsers. After listening to Du Qiu's technical explanation, he felt that the prospects for iView were bright and excited, so he made up his mind and said, "Du Qiu, didn't you say that after the new version of iView browser is released, you will be able to start a new company in the United States? Then I will go to a new company to do CEO, and you will take it on your shoulders in China."

“I’m not good at management and business.”

"Actually, I'm not good at it either." Chen Dayou shook his head and said, "I have no bonds in the United States. I can do whatever I want according to my own ideas. I have too many relationships in China, and I'm trapped everywhere and socializing every day. I can't do anything well. If you feel that you can't be busy, you can also hire a professional manager or let Liu Yunlai be a CEO. He needs a background and ability, and is a good candidate."

Chen Dayou made iView in the United States a prosperous society. He found AOL to cooperate and invested in Yahoo. He was a masterpiece in China and had no idea what he had made. He was incompatible with the culture that was first in Snapdragon technology. Du Qiu was silent for a moment and said, "The American branch is called Snapdragon International, and he won't be given a new name."
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