China has implemented a five-day working system every other week since March 1, 1994. If it is closed on Saturdays and Sundays, it is called a big weekend. If it is closed on Saturdays and Sundays, it is called a small weekend. This strange working system did not end until May 1, 1995, and then it is a 5-day working system.

Du Qiu and his family rushed back to Yuncheng on Friday, February 17. The next 18th and 19th were big weekends. If they were normal office workers, they could just rest and adjust for two days. However, as a teacher in the Youth Palace, Du Chunhua became busier the weekend, so she got up early in the morning. She was a very principled person. Although she was about to resign, she had not yet resigned, so she still went to work on time according to the past practice.

"Sister, I have called Wenxiu to tell me about the investment. At noon, you can go directly to Yunda to find them, and then go shopping together to see the office building." After Du Qiu finished breakfast, he put the car key on the dining table and said, "When someone will pick me up to the research institute. You can drive the car today. You have to run around in several places to see the building, so it is convenient to have a car."

"OK."

"Be careful, especially when passing traffic lights, now many people are driving around and have no awareness of traffic safety."

"How many days have you been driving in China? I've been driving for three or four years. I know the virtues of those people better than you and will be careful."

Du Chunhua died in 2010 because she encountered a series of car accidents on the highway. She was caught between several out-of-control trucks. It was a natural disaster of force majeure, not a car quality or driving technology problem. The reason why Du Qiu reminded and reminded was that in 1995, Yuncheng had very poor traffic management, neither speed tester nor quick photos, nor surveillance cameras. As long as she was not arrested on the spot, she would not be punished. The drivers were fearless and violated various rules. He went out yesterday morning and came back in the evening. In just a few dozen minutes' drive, he met four or five guys running red lights randomly, which was scared and sweated.

Before leaving, Du Chunhua squatted on the ground and asked while helping Lin Jinyan tie his scarf, "How long are you going to stay in the research institute today?"

"I can't say it's right, maybe it's four or five o'clock in the afternoon."

"If you finish your work, come back early and invite Wenxiu and the others to have a meal in the evening. It will be considered as a formal investment."

"Okay, I'll send you a message from the BP machine at that time."

Less than two minutes after Du Chunhua left, Du Qiu heard a knock on the door. He thought his mother had forgotten to bring something, but when he opened the door, he found that it was Chen Dawei. He was wearing a dark short windbreaker, which seemed to be a little thinner than before the New Year. However, his complexion was very good, he looked energetic, bowed his hands in a somewhat artificial manner, and said loudly: "Brother Qiu, happy new year!"

Du Qiu made an appointment with him on the phone yesterday to go to the Institute of Quantum Physics today. Therefore, he was not surprised at all. He smiled and said, "Happy New Year, come in and sit down."

Before entering the house to change shoes, Chen Dawei looked inside a few times and asked, "You are the only one at home?"

"Yes, my sister and the others are all out." Du Qiu pointed to the lean egg porridge on the dining table and said, "Do you want to eat some together? The meat and rice are brought from their hometown in Northeast China, and they taste good."

"I'll eat before I come... Then eat a little and try Brother Qiu's skills... Forget it, it's still no trouble."

In fact, Du Qiu, like Chen Dawei and his brothers, are both technical ottomans who are not good at socializing. They often use routines when dealing with people, such as praise others for their good names when they meet, but he has many routines, strong observation skills, and good at watching people serve. Therefore, when dealing with people, they are not as artificial as the Chen brothers, but they are essentially similar people, so they can see Chen Dawei's reality at first glance. At this time, seeing that he is incoherent and inconsistent in his words, he knows that he is nervous again.

This guy is very likely to have been here for a long time and stayed downstairs. He deliberately waited for Du Chunhua to leave before coming up and knocking on the door...

When I was in middle school, I did this when I went to my classmates’ houses during the Spring Festival...

This tension is actually the result of insufficient self-confidence and self-pressure. As long as the other party shows a friendly and close attitude, it can be eliminated immediately. Du Qiu took out a pair of bowls and chopsticks from the kitchen, served half a bowl of porridge, and placed it casually on the dining table, saying, "Dawei, I don't know whether you have eaten or not. Come and try it first. Eat more if you taste it. If you don't taste it, it's worth it. Don't be polite among friends. Just say something, what should be? Otherwise, it's too hypocritical and boring."

As expected, Chen Dawei's expression immediately relaxed, and the sense of alienation caused by not meeting for a long time also disappeared. He sat down at the dining table and said with a smile: "I did eat it, but my mother has gone abroad these days. My father can't cook at all and insists on cooking. The things he made are very unpalatable, but he had to give him face. He ate a little in the morning... Oh, Brother Qiu, your porridge is really good, I'll do some more."

"You are here." Du Qiu was about to officially launch his Internet giant plan, and began to take the initiative to inquire about the Chen family's background and asked: "Your father should be a high-ranking official, right? He actually cooked for you in the morning. It seems that he loves you very much."

"My dad is not a high-ranking official. He is just a deputy department-level official. He is the deputy director of the Provincial Institute of Posts and Telecommunications Technology. He deals with data and cables every day and has no power."

Turns out he is a technician...

But judging from his food and clothing, he is not like the second generation of a small bureaucrat...

"Where is your mother, what does she do?"

"My mother opened a company herself, specializing in paging business. The GSM mobile communication network is about to be opened in China. She plans to switch to selling mobile phones. GSM was created in Europe, so she went there with a few friends these days."

Before mobile phones entered thousands of households, paging stations were a profitable industry...

It turned out to be a consortium of the second generation of officials and the second generation of rich people. No wonder it is not short of money...

Du Qiu was about to inquire about Chen Dayou's background, but Chen Dawei was impatient and only took a few bites of a bowl of porridge, he began to ask: "Brother Qiu, have you read the source code of my game?"

"Look, I've modified some codes. You eat first, I'll give it to you."

Although the HP 100LX runs a DOS system, which can be typed and programmed, the screen and keyboard are too small, so it is OK to use it for emergency use. It would be very painful to use it to write programs. Therefore, when Du Qiu was in his hometown during the Spring Festival, he had almost never used it except writing a notepad business plan. In his spare time, he mainly messed with Chen Dawei's game source code. After all, it is a printed manuscript, which is very convenient to read and is easy to modify.

Du Qiu said that he modified some codes, which was actually modest, because he not only changed the source code beyond recognition, but also changed the basic settings and gameplay rules of the game itself, which was almost equivalent to starting over and starting a brand new game - as an otaku who has experienced many battles and played hundreds of games, changing a small game with rough settings and simple technology, and not even a beta version is simply a piece of cake.

The effect of the change was ideal. Chen Dawei was excited after reading the settings instructions for only a few pages. He didn't even eat. He stood up and said loudly: "Brother Qiu, let's go to the research institute now. Damn! Brother Qiu, your idea is too awesome. If you realize these settings, it will definitely be a super awesome game! After it is made, it will be a good match for Yuan Tiangang. I guess he admires Brother Qiu like Guo Xiang, just like Guo Xiang, who saw Yang Guo."

Yuan Tiangang is a pale and thin otaku. How can he compare with the smart and elegant Guo Xiang?

This guy's words are still as messy as before...

Du Qiu was amused and cried, and said, "Don't worry, you eat your meal first, I will wash the dishes, and then go to the research institute."

"What other dishes are you washing! Just wash it again when you come back tonight."

"Dawei, writing code is like living a life, with a beginning and an end." Du Qiu coughed and said with a serious expression: "It must be released after the memory is used, the rice must be washed after it is eaten, and the sinkhole must be buried. You cannot ignore it, otherwise you will become a eunuch."

"What is a sinkhole?"

"The sinkhole doesn't seem to be a pit, but it's actually a pit. If you don't bury it, you won't be able to crawl out once you fall in. It is ranked along with memory overflow as two of the most terrifying strange things in the computer and the Internet world."

"Memory overflow is indeed troublesome, but I still don't understand what the sinkhole is."

"You will understand in the future."

Chen Dawei quickly understood what a sinkhole was, because before the Spring Festival, Du Qiu said that he would set up an audio compression program. However, on the way to the Institute of Quantum Physics, he changed his words and said that it was just an idea, only some algorithms were completed, and he did not write a single line of code, which was far away from completion, and he did not plan to write this program in the near future.

"Brother Qiu, you can't do this! After listening to your introduction last time, I thought that the format is very promising, with small capacity and high sound quality. It's simply tailor-made for the game. Now I don't write it anymore?!"

"I didn't say I won't write anymore, I just said I'll write later."

"When will it be next?"

"I don't know, in a few months or a year, the Internet is not developed now, and it's a bit early to get audio software, so I plan to get another urgent software first."

"What software?"

"Browser."

That's right, it's a browser!

The entrance channel and super killer of the Internet world, the magical object that any Internet giant salivates. If you master it, you will master the future of the Internet!

If you build a browser in 2016, it would be equivalent to building a tall building on the Himalayas. Not only is it extremely technically difficult, but the competitive pressure is also great. Foreign giants such as Microsoft, Google, and Apple are eyeing each other, while domestically, there are many heroes such as Tencent, 360, and Alibaba, and there is no room for newcomers to make a comeback.

However, if you build a browser in 1995, it was equivalent to building a three-story building in a plain countryside. Not only was it technically difficult, but the competitive pressure was also small, because the Internet was still in a blank pioneering period. Among the three languages ​​that are essential for websites and web pages, HTML and CSS have not even formulated the most basic standards, and JavaScript has not yet appeared. At this time, the browser only needs to parse static pages, which is not technically difficult, and there is only one competitor that has not been established for a long time.

Of course, Netscape in 1995 is not a weak person. Since its Netscape-Navigator browser was officially released on December 15, 1994, it swept the entire Internet with a splash of fire. In less than two years, it had more than 50 million users, accounting for about 90% of the browser market. It took even a giant like Microsoft to defeat it for more than three years, and it was defeated by free + back-payment.

But Du Qiu has his own killer weapon, which is the JavaScript language. If web pages are compared to humans, HTML is the bones, CSS is the skin, and JavaScript is the muscles and nerves that control the dynamic functions of the page. It is an indispensable technology. In 2016, JavaScript was recognized as the assembly language of the Internet world and is one of the core technologies for the operation and development of the entire Internet.

However, such an important language was originally just a gadget designed by a programmer in Netscape Company in 10 days. The programmer was named Brandon Edge. He was hired by Netscape Company in April 1995 and designed JavaScript in May. It is only February now. Du Qiu can start in advance and turn JavaScript into his own product, embed it into a free and open source browser, and push it to the world, turning it into the industry standard.

This plan is the real sinkhole. Once dug, Netscape and Microsoft will fall in and can never crawl out again...
Chapter completed!