"After you left, I went to Lao Fan with the paper on the expansion of the university and wanted to ask him to work hard. As a result, he told me another thing first, saying that according to the needs of the 211 project, the superiors were preparing to withdraw our institute, part of which was merged with the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and part of which was merged with the Department of Modern Physics of the University of Science and Technology." Hou Chengzong explained Long Qumai and said, "I think the university town and software park you built are not far from Qingyun Mountain. If you are interested, you will buy the institute here. After all, there are so many buildings, it would be a pity to waste it."

Lao Fan is the head of the research institute, and his news should not be wrong. Du Qiu breathed a sigh of relief and joked: "So that's the case. I thought Teacher Hou, you want me to invest in the construction of an atomic bomb."

"You really have eyes on your forehead and are arrogant. I tell you that if you put all your property together and add zeros to it, you can't create an atomic bomb."

"Even if I can build it, I won't dare to build it." Du Qiu laughed and asked, "There are many houses in the institute. You have moved out, and no other unit has moved in?"

"It's deserted and wilderness, and life is inconvenient, and no one wants to live there. The University of Science and Technology thinks that the house is too old and it's troublesome to repair it, and doesn't want it. If I didn't know that you're going to set up a software park nearby, I wouldn't be bothered to mention this matter." Hou Chengzong knew the mentality of the rich and said, "Rich people like to build villas or resorts in the mountains. The environment here is good, so don't miss it."

Qingyun Mountain is not high or big, but it has lush vegetation, towering strange stones, and many scenic spots. The Institute of Quantum Physics is located in an excellent location, with beautiful forests and valleys around it, quiet and quiet. It is indeed an ideal villa construction site. Du Qiu personally likes it very much, but did not agree immediately. Instead, he said: "The university town and the software park are not yet in a single sign. I will go back to discuss with the experts in the city who are planning, and then give you a correct letter."

"Okay, don't delay it for too long. Lao Fan said we will start moving after the Spring Festival."

"I'll try my best." Du Qiu asked while driving, "Teacher Hou plans to go to Beijing or to the University of Science and Technology?"

"I haven't decided yet. The theoretical research in the capital is better, and the experimental conditions at the University of Science and Technology are better." Hou Chengzong sighed and said distressedly: "I have lived in Yuncheng for decades and are familiar with every tree and grass here. I have long regarded this place as my hometown and don't want to leave. But my eldest son is in the capital, and my wife wants to go there to play with her grandchildren, so she is in a dilemma."

Hou Cheng had good children in religion, and all three sons were promising. Two of them went abroad, and only the eldest brother stayed in China and worked as the general manager in a subsidiary of a state-owned enterprise in Beijing. Du Qiu never interfered in this kind of family relationship. After saying a few casual words, he ended the call.

Not long after he finished, the phone number on Jiang Danfeng started to ring, one after another, and it was called by familiar netizens, praising her for singing well, and being moved by herself.

"It seems that the song "My Dream" was posted to the forum last night."

"Yeah." Jiang Danfeng smiled and said proudly while sending a text message: "Dai Yi said that the employees had a New Year's Day party vote in the forum. "My Dream" and "take-me-to-your-heart" ranked first and second."

"It's still early, let's go to the company to take a look." Du Qiu turned right on the steering wheel, drove towards the company, and asked, "Which is Yang Fan ranked?"

Jiang Danfeng sent a text message to Dai Yi, and received a reply more than ten seconds later, saying: "Mr. Yang ranks fourth, more than ten votes less than Xu Yongrui, and your harmonica solo ranks fifth."

"Yang Fan's saxophone level is very high, and it is normal to be popular than me." Du Qiu was a little dissatisfied and said, "Xu Yongrui's magic is all old tricks, and he actually ranks higher than me."

"Xu Yongrui is worse than you, and he is both funny and exciting. You play the harmonica like a wooden man, of course you are not as popular as him."

In yesterday's New Year's Day party, there were three programs that impressed Du Qiu. One was He Lixing's software park planning map, one was Xu Yongrui's performance of how to use magic to pick up girls, and the other was "The Price of Love" blown by Yang Fan in the saxophone.

Xu Yongrui has a stingy personality and loves to play. It is not surprising to create a good program. Yang Fan is usually serious and deep and cold, as tough as granite. He actually makes a song that understands love so much that it makes people feel the lingering and touching, which is shocking and changes many employees' perceptions of him.

As for Du Qiu, he performed three programs last night. One was to use the piano to help Jiang Danfeng accompany "My Dream" during the New Year's Eve, the other was to play the song "The Action Program of Cruel Angels" with the harmonica, and the other was to sing the English version of "Kiss Goodbye" with Jiang Danfeng at the strong request of the employees. He either acted as a supporting role or stir-frying the rice, and was just paddling. He did this because he didn't want to steal Jiang Danfeng's style, and the other was to feel that there was no need to compete with ordinary employees to win. The company's internal entertainment was better than showing his edge.

However, even when paddling, it still cannot cover up Du Qiu's "excellent talent". He composed lyrics and music, and played the piano and harmonica casually, which made employees and netizens unable to find any other words to describe it except worshipping him. Therefore, as soon as he arrived at the company, he learned that his network nickname had been upgraded from "Boss 8" to "God 8".

"Mr. Du, look, some netizens have drawn a portrait for you." Zhao Hongfei pointed to a cartoon portrait wearing red pants on the computer screen and introduced: "This is based on a fighting game in Japan..."

"I know, Yagami in "The King of Fighters 95".

This netizen has a good painting skills. He combined Du Qiu's face and Yaji's body, and then beautified, turning into a super handsome guy with a deep face, sharp eyes and explosive body. Du Qiu admired it for a moment and said narcissistically: "It's so crazy, cool and stunning."

"Remember it, Mr. Du has released new words." Zhao Hongfei shouted and said to his colleagues around him: "Hurry and send it to the post of Mr. Du's quotation."

"Zhao Hongfei, you are really a flatterer among the flatterers."

Since the company opened the forum at the end of May, as long as Du Qiu had the conditions to go online, he would definitely log in and get a ride. Over the past six months, he contributed dozens of online articles and hundreds of popular Internet buzzwords, such as "rich", "high-end" and "saucy", and even appeared in some traditional media. A few guys in the company collected the words he "created" under the instigation of Zhao Hongfei, and created posts called Du Zong Quotes. They were very popular and were one of the top ten popular posts on the forum in 1995.

In June last year, there were more than 30 fresh undergraduates who joined Snapdragon in total. Zhao Hongfei has the best talent and skills. His disadvantage is that his personality is slick and he likes to do things. He originally wanted to use Snapdragon as a springboard to develop in Silicon Valley. Later, he found that Snapdragon has great potential, so he stayed there again. Then, under Du Qiu's cultivation, he became an important member of the browser R&D team.

In fact, strictly speaking, after the iView was divested, Zhao Hongfei was no longer an employee of Snapdragon, but an employee of IView's China branch. However, IView has not yet started business in China, and there are many idle offices at the Snapdragon headquarters, so he is temporarily working in the same place, but the employee's salary and various funds are no longer in Snapdragon's finances.

"Don't make a fuss." Du Qiu picked up a reference book on the table, knocked Zhao Hongfei on the head, and said, "Use the latest stable version of iView to open an audio from last night's program to let me see the effect."

“yes,sir!”

There are two versions of the iView browser. The open source pioneer version is updated at any time, and the closed source stable version is updated every month on the 1st of the month. One version was upgraded on New Year's Day. The most important feature in this version is that it supports directly playing audio in IAC format in the browser. This format is what Du Qiu brags about with Jiang Danfeng in the morning.

In the time and space before traveling through time, there are two most popular audio compression formats in the world in the 21st century, one is mp3 and the other is aac. mp3 originated in 1987, and it was actually used in 1994, popular in 1997, and acc originated in 1997 and completed in 2000. It was originally intended to replace mp3, but unfortunately it failed. Only Apple favored it in the music consumer market, and the rest were not very cold. However, aac is very popular in the radio and television industries and is the most widely used audio format in these two fields.

MP3 and AAC have copyright and patent protection, and using them requires payment, which is something Du Qiu can't bear. So he used the open source audio formats Ogg and Opus as the basis, and joined forces with Marin Eller, who left Microsoft, to create an audio compression format suitable for the hardware environment in the 1990s. Because the abbreviation of Ogg is unknown and he was difficult to pronounce. He simply modeled the naming method of iView and imail and changed it to iAc, which means Internet-audio-coding, and intends to promote it with the iView browser to prepare for players and streaming music platforms in the future.

mp3 was popular all over the world under the promotion of pirated music, while Ogg was ahead of mp3 two eras. The compressed music was smaller in size and better sound quality, and it was more suitable for the Internet environment in the 1990s. Therefore, as long as the marketing is done well, it is not difficult to replace mp3. As for aac, it may never appear again...

"Mr. Du, you see, the browser can correctly recognize audio in the iac format."

Zhao Hongfei opened the top New Year's Day party post, showing dozens of audio files for Du Qiu to see, and then selected "My Dream" to click to play, but no sound came out, but a prompt bar showing the download progress appeared. He spread his hands helplessly and said, "The Internet speed is too slow now. Netizens download the music to their hard drive first, and then play it with a special player. They will not listen to music directly in the browser."

Playing music with a browser is a waste of money even after 20 years. Du Qiu's purpose is to use iView to advertise IAC and encourage netizens to use it instead of mp3 to distribute pirated music. Therefore, he didn't care. He said: "IAC is an audio compression format. In addition to music, there are many other applications. It is not harmful to support it in advance."

The two waited for three or four minutes before "My Dream" was downloaded, and then the browser automatically started playing. Du Qiu practiced the piano intermittently for several months, and his level was very average. He focused on playing on the stage yesterday and did not dare to be distracted to listen to what Jiang Danfeng sang. He thought he was singing well based on the reaction of the audience below. Now, when he listened carefully, he found that she was indeed singing well, with a stable breath, full resonance, and a good sense of language. He was just right in his mind, which could drive and infect the audience's emotions.

“How many downloads are there in this song?”

"The entertainment group made a whole night and one morning to complete it, and it was uploaded at 3 pm. It is now 4:10, and it has been downloaded in total 571 times." Zhao Hongfei switched to the homepage of the forum and said: "Today, the number of online users at the same time must have reached a new high, and now there are 3,319 people."

As of December 31, 1995, there were more than 110 Chinese websites in China, most of which appeared after the Internet conference. Among them, the official Snapdragon forum is the most well-known and has the richest content. Almost every netizen will visit. When Microsoft held the 95 press conference on Windows on August 24, the number of people online at the forum exceeded 1,000 for the first time. It has only been 4 months now, and the number of people online at the same time has increased by 3 times, indicating that the number of netizens is increasing rapidly, but no one knows the specific number. Du Qiu asked: "How many registered users are there?"

"It's over 60,000, but many of them are registered repeatedly. I counted once a few days ago. Each Snapdragon employee has an average of 9.7 stakes. I really don't know what they do with so many stakes."

The number of netizens is still too small...

It seems I have to build a few more Internet cafes...
Chapter completed!