Volume 8 Final Chapter Chapter 1055 The Internet is a Place for Pretending
When Nan Ruoyin flew to Mountain View and was on her way to Netscape, Nan Tianmen's Collingham was giving a lecture at Columbia University.
Previously, considering that the Internet was not yet widely used, Nantianmen adopted a small-circle, self-entertainment publicity model, without holding press conferences or advertising, and simply spread the word by word of mouth in the WEB circle.
This model is not bad. In the WEB technology circle, almost everyone recognizes the South family package. It can be said that Nantianmen has accurately grasped the end users.
Previously, this model was very suitable and sufficient, but with the increase in the number of Internet users and the South browser incident, the previous model was a bit insufficient. Once South Browser was sold to Netscape, Nantianmen lost its initiative.
Both CSS and SouthScript are relatively forward-looking products. CSS enhances the user experience and makes users more enjoyable when using WEB applications.
It's like a fat woman weighing more than 300 pounds and a beautiful woman with a curvy and graceful figure. In theory, both of them can reproduce offspring, but as long as there is a choice, I believe most men are willing to marry the latter. The role of CSS is to turn a web page into the latter.
The function of SouthScript is to make the page dynamic. This dynamic is not only a visual effect, but also includes the user experience in details. The number of Internet users is increasing explosively, and it is a bit outdated to only provide users with static browsing services. Web pages need to have more powerful functions, and "functions" cannot be achieved by HTML static pages, and must be accessed by programs.
Program access means that the client's data must be transmitted to the server, and vice versa, data must be read from the server. This is a disaster for today's snail-like Internet speed. There must be a language that can perform some simple operations on the client's browser.
For example, when a user registers, if he/she misses one item, we have to wait until the form is submitted to the server to discover the problem, and then refresh the page to inform the user. This wastes time and the user may be frustrated.
For the current Internet, the core value of SouthScript is to solve problems like registration verification. Its function of beautifying pages is still slightly ahead of its time and cannot be considered an urgent need.
The functions of SouthScript and CSS can be said to be very powerful, but compared with C language and Java, which was just released this year, the development difficulty is like the difference between single-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and calculus. As long as a few programmers who are not just filling in the gaps get together and work for half a month, they can develop other languages that can replace the functions of the two.
That is to say, Netscape also has this capability, and it can develop ScapeScript and ScapeCSS to compete with SouthScript and SouthCSS. Moreover, Netscape and Sun have already started flirting with each other, and it is very likely that history will be corrected and JavaScript based on Java syntax will still be on the stage.
From Netscape's perspective, acquiring South Browser and unifying the world is very beneficial to Netscape. SouthScript and SouthCSS, which assist South Browser, continue to assist Netscape Browser, which has absorbed South Browser. This is the best situation. Netscape does not need to spend money to support it, and it serves itself. Why not do it?
But from the perspective of Nantianmen, it can serve Netscape, but at the same time it also has to serve future browsers. No matter which company it belongs to or what it is called, as long as it is a browser, Nantianmen is willing to contribute its ideas and source code without asking for direct returns.
What Nantianmen wants is to increase the brand awareness of "South", popularize South syntax, and let more programmers write code using South thinking.
South thinking will run through all of Nantianmen’s future product lines, including commercial databases, server environments, mobile systems, etc. Programmers using the South family package only need to learn for two or three days to get started with the new language that Nantianmen will launch in the future, which means that the new product comes with its own user base.
In the future, whether it is a business engaged in server hosting services or a business producing PDAs and mobile phones, they will naturally tend to choose Nantianmen’s products among many products, rather than choosing a product that everyone has to learn from scratch.
This is called the ecological environment, or it can also be called habit domestication.
Netscape naturally wanted to have exclusive access to Nantianmen's services, and the South family package could be its selling point. Nantianmen wanted to serve the people of the world, regardless of nationality or race, and without asking for anything in return. Therefore, when Netscape was the only one in the world, Nantianmen would take the initiative to stick to it, and would say whatever Netscape said was fine, and the little brother would listen to his big brother.
But when other competitive browsers appear, Nan Tianmen will rush over to ask for sworn brotherhood, not asking for being born in the same year and month, but asking for dying in the same year and month.
In short, Nantianmen wants and needs to become a WEB standard. When South browser was not for sale, Nantianmen could still leisurely pretend to be a hermit. Now that it is going to be sold , it can no longer pretend to be so and must quickly go out on stage and let Internet users know about Nantianmen.
Nantianmen wants to force Netscape to stop the thankless task of starting over and spread the fame of the whole family bucket to the ears of ordinary Internet users. They may not know SouthScript and SouthCSS, but they must form a vague concept that only websites using South whole family bucket technology are good.
It can be said that the small stone thrown by Nan Ruoyin changed the working style of the entire Da Nan Tianmen system. If they continued to follow Nan Yi's style, all products would easily be mediocre and become niche good products with not many users.
The Internet is not a place to be low-key. What is needed is to be high-profile and to be exposed to the spotlight for a long time. It is best for entrepreneurs to become business stars and idols of young people.
Nan Yi has Internet thinking, but lacks the most basic quality of a successful Internet entrepreneur - high profile. He is not suitable to lead an Internet company, but only to be a strategic consultant.
When Nan Yi read the information about American railways and thought about this issue, he was able to recognize his own shortcomings and was willing to correct them. The only difference was that his way of correction was not to change his personality, but to change his management model.
At 1 p.m. Japan time, Nan Yi sent an email to Nantianmen, Niren, Zhenli Online, TTM, Adam, and Guifu. The general meaning of the email was that he wanted to give up his status as the "emperor emeritus" and that these companies would be fully controlled by the CEO in the future, and he would only play the role of a strategic advisor.
He also suggested that all CEOs should be more high-profile, attend more forums and salons, give more speeches on stage, hold more press conferences, and if interested, they can create some gossip with Hollywood actresses.
Then he sent an email to Tim Berners-Lee through the Internet, recommending Collingham to join the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to replace Adam, who was only heard of, and become a representative of Nan Tianmen to promote standard setting.
Nan Yi believed that the other party would agree, because the other party knew that he was a shareholder of several Internet-related companies. Standards are not legal provisions. They must be followed whether you understand them or not. Standards need to be recognized by mainstream companies. Once no one recognizes them, the standards are just a piece of paper.
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Nan Ruoyin's preliminary negotiations with Anderson and Clark went quite smoothly. Both parties were interested in the deal, and Nan Ruoyin wanted money plus shares. The price was quickly locked at US$200 million, a figure that exceeded Nan Yi's bottom line. The only thing they were still arguing about was the share of the shares.
Both parties knew that once the deal was done, Netscape's stock price would soar, and they were fighting over the number of shares. One party wanted more, the other wanted less, but they would not fall out, because the premise for the stock to soar was that the deal was done, so the price was finalized first and then the number of shares was determined.
What the two sides are competing for now is who is more shameless and who can't stand the mutual fatigue bombardment first. The goal is to suppress the momentum of one side. As long as the momentum is exhausted, the psychological defense line is lowered, and the idea of letting it go arises, the winner will be decided.
This process is extremely boring, no more sophisticated than the bargaining of street vendors, nor more glamorous than a war of words in which people call each other "you idiot" or "you are the idiot".
Nan Ruoyin would naturally not personally participate in such a war of words. There is a profession called negotiator, and this is their job for a living. Professional matters should naturally be left to professionals .
Mountain View is included in Silicon Valley, and since she was in Silicon Valley, she naturally wanted to travel around.
We first visited NASA's Muss Research Center, and then went to Symantec and McAfee, both of which are engaged in the development of security software, and McAfee is the company that launched the world's first antivirus software.
After going around in circles, Nan Ruoyin has gained a certain understanding of the development of antivirus software. He knows which companies hold the core technology of antivirus engines, and he also realizes the true meaning of "let go left and kill right" and extortion. It's a pity that this is a field where only giants can survive, and Symantec and McAfee are already quite big, so they missed the golden period for investment.
Nan Ruoyin's little brain was thinking quickly. Since she missed out on the United States, she could consider other countries. Anyway, the engines of Russia's Spider and Kaspersky were both public. She could just add a shell and do some simple OEM, and a new antivirus software would be born. With the addition of viruses and advertising bombardment, it could be quickly promoted.
"The kitten is fishing, the fox is smiling, the red beans are clanging..."
The names of viruses popped up in Nan Ruoyin's mind, and she also thought of the idea of charging extra for the "special killing tool".
Putting her little thoughts aside for the time being, Nan Ruoyin went to the University of California, Berkeley, the holy land of Silicon Valley.
When it comes to computer science, Berkeley is not ranked first in the world, but when it comes to open technology culture, Berkeley is definitely number one. The famous BSD and BSD license were born here. BSD is one of the greatest products in open source software and one of the driving forces for the development of the Internet industry. Any operating system in the world has benefited greatly from BSD.
Obviously, Nan Ruoyin didn't care about this. She came here to see what speeches there were to listen to, or small events to participate in. Perhaps by participating in these activities she could discover some hidden gems that were about to start a business.
Silicon Valley is a holy land for investment. The emerging pearls will be combed by capital. Every capital wants to invest in good companies, and every capital only wants to invest in good companies. As a result, a good company is surrounded by N capitals, and the dusty pearls have to recommend themselves to N capitals.
Nan Ruoyin wants to compete with other capitals, but also wants to comb it again, thinking that whoever picks up the money will earn it.
In addition to this purpose, she also wanted to see if she could pick up two Chinese computer science students. If she met the right one, she wanted to persuade him to return to China to develop anti-virus software, one in the direction of charging, and the other in the direction of free and accumulating users.
She once heard Nan Yi say that if the Internet is to be popularized quickly, the only way is to promote the free mindset, and free is likely to become the basic mindset of the Internet. An Internet product should not think about charging for basic functions, but should treat every user as a tool, basic data, and a bargaining chip to charge commercial users.
Nan Ruoyin has complete faith in her father's vision and thinking, and her own judgment on the Internet coincides with Nan Yi's, but her ideas are a little immature and not as mature as Nan Yi's.
Fortunately, Nan Ruoyin happened to run into Michael Mauldin from Carnegie Mellon University who was giving a speech here.
Michael Mauldin is not only the founder of the search engine Lycos, but also an expert in the field of artificial intelligence. The virtual person Julia he created has undergone basic training, has good text recognition capabilities, and can already perform primitive voice recognition applications.
Adam aside, Lycos is the most advanced search engine currently, with spider programs being used in it, and the pseudo-search engines added manually by Yahoo can only stand aside.
On the podium, Mordin did not talk about search engines, but about artificial intelligence, mainly the conversion of speech into text in voice applications.
"As recognition capabilities improve, computers connected to speech synthesizers can be run over the Internet to perform many functions previously performed by humans, such as telephone operators, secretaries, travel agents, administrative assistants, chess champions, claims processors, bond traders, and even street smart people who can answer LoveStory calls."
[LoveStory, a paid emotional phone call in some phone booths on the streets of the United States. Don’t ask what they talk about.]
Mordin's words made Nan Ruoyin smile knowingly. Most of the functions he mentioned could already be realized by Yizi, but his father had no idea of transforming them into commercial applications for the time being .
According to my father, artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword and may also be Pandora's box. The popularization of artificial intelligence will have a great impact on employment, and may cause social unrest and shorten the outbreak cycle of economic crises. It may also become the fuse and driving force of World War III or regime change. There is no need to rush to consider commercialization. Think more about some issues and see which way the wind is blowing before making a decision.
"Planning for future high-end industries and sinking into low-end industries to create employment rates, Dad, what do you want to do? Let Nan's run through today, tomorrow and the future?"
While continuing to listen, Nan Ruoyin's mind had already traveled more than eight hundred miles.
While Nan Ruoyin was running, Nan Yi was also running. He ran from Iwate to Nintendo's mail-order department in Kyoto and picked up a Satellaview game console that was only available by mail order.
Taking the game console, he returned to the Japanese garden in Lake Kawaguchi in Tokyo, studied the instruction manual for a while, and then fumbled to set up the satellite-connected game console. He turned on the console, loaded the bundled BSX service operating card, and a pixelated street view appeared on the TV.
Nan Yi used the joystick to control the little man in the picture to walk into a building similar to a radio station. The picture flashed and a broadcast from satellite transmission sounded from the TV speakers.
After listening for a while, Nan Yi exited the radio and controlled the little man to walk into several other buildings - downloading games, downloading patches, and listening to music.
After playing with it for a while, Nan Yi couldn't help but sigh that the Japanese were really bold in thinking and doing. Unfortunately, Satellaview was born at the wrong time, on the eve of the Internet explosion, and was destined to be a failed project.
Nan Yi noticed Satellaview’s advertisement in the newspaper yesterday and took notice of it, which led to the decision to pick it up at the store today.
Satellaview was born at the wrong time, and the Little Superman computer will also be outdated in a few years. It is necessary to plan ahead and make preliminary preparations after deciding on the direction. Nan Yi thought for a while and came up with a few ideas. He planned to take a detour to Shencun on his way back and have a good chat with Chen Yuxiu.
After finishing his business, Nan Yi went to the backyard to soak in the hot spring. After feeling refreshed, he changed his clothes and went out.
