1991 Starting from the core

"Tell me why you suddenly want to cooperate with Wikipedia... huh?"

After Su Yuanshan readily agreed, he immediately turned around and looked at his wife.

In the past few years, especially after experiencing the Internet winter, Ye Rudai has become farther and farther away from the image in his memory - at least in terms of "independence", there is not much shadow in his memory.

Hmm... maybe it's because she became a mother early.

For example, Ye Rudai rarely asks for his opinions on eso's business and direction issues, so much so that Su Yuanshan didn't even know she was "aiming" at Wikipedia until now.

"It's not cooperation." Ye Rudela took the jelly bean and straightened her apron. Seeing the two mothers opposite looking at the little girl in her hands, she put the jelly bean down and asked her to find her grandma and grandma. Turning around to face Su Yuanshan: "We are planning to buy Wikipedia."

"Hmm...wait a minute. Are you sure you want to buy it?" Su Yuanshan glared - even if he no longer pays attention and doesn't know the history of Wikipedia, he does know the path that Wikipedia takes.

That is a typical example of the freedom, openness and heroism of the Internet.

Ye Rudai said she wanted to "buy"?

Was it not those two people who founded Wikipedia in this life? But that's not right...the names are all the same.

“Who was the founder of Wikipedia?”

"Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger." Ye Rudai grabbed a napkin and wiped her mouth: "Let's talk in the study."

"okay."

…

Returning to the study with Ye Rudai, Su Yuanshan's mind was filled with questions.

It is said that the nature of a country is easy to change but hard to change. The birth of Wikipedia was because its founder was determined to create a truly free encyclopedia - because before that, in 1999 to be precise, the most famous and authoritative encyclopedia - —The 32 volumes of "Encyclopedia Britannica" were all put on the Internet and are available for free use. After being reported by thousands of media around the world, it instantly exploded on the entire Internet. It once set a record of 15 million daily IP visits... directly made the website Crash, unable to function for two weeks.

——This event is also one of the landmark events when the Internet bubble reached its climax.

But behind the free lunch is often the coveting of capital. In the ensuing Internet bubble, the free Encyclopedia Britannica also failed to get out of the predicament - the Internet advertising it relied on fell far short of expectations. Therefore, the free Encyclopedia Britannica failed to meet expectations. The encyclopedia had to announce a fee.

The Internet has always been a field where heroism is born, and there is never a shortage of heroes.

Therefore, Jimmy and Larry rose up... vowing to benefit the majority of Internet users, so the free Nupedia encyclopedia was born - at the beginning, the two were obviously in awe of the encyclopedia, and what they were looking for were all relevant Experts and scholars compile relevant entries.

But professionals...professionals are professionals, but the speed is hard to describe.

Finally, Jimmy discovered Wiki - an open source multi-person collaborative writing system. In order to pay tribute to wiki, Wikipedia came into being.

To date, Wikipedia has more than 20,000 entries and more than ten versions.

Of course, only accepting donations is still Wikipedia’s current practice.

Therefore, Su Yuanshan's "buy" to Ye Rudai was full of question marks.

"Actually, we noticed wiki last year, and my colleagues had similar ideas." Ye Rudai closed the door and sat directly on the chair in front of her desk, turning around.

"Well, so you're not threatening others, are you?" Su Yuanshan sat on the sofa and looked at his wife with a smile.

"...Can you be more serious?" Ye Rudai looked helpless: "Why do you describe us as being like gangsters?"

"I'm serious." Su Yuanshan shrugged: "You are now the world's number one traffic distribution portal. If you want to develop encyclopedia applications, who dares to compete with you?"

"...This is a fact." Ye Rudai was stunned for a few seconds, but she felt a little embarrassed: "But the main reason is that the team within the wiki has had some problems recently."

"what is the problem?"

"Because it is a non-profit organization, management is very lax... We all have tempers, and as the Internet winter passes and the industry recovers, many people are thinking more realistically... For example, not long ago, The Spanish team announced its withdrawal from the wiki and established its own Spanish encyclopedia."

This time it was Su Yuanshan's turn to be stunned: "Do you understand it so clearly?"

"Well... Mainly, I think that this kind of free encyclopedia that everyone can compile, in addition to providing users with aspects, can also reflect the will of the compiler to a large extent. For example, although there are relatively few Chinese entries, But some entries are clearly contrary to the facts.”

Su Yuanshan was startled and immediately thought of wheels.

"You mean controlling the wiki?"

"Of course not... I just want to better connect the country and the world through our efforts."

Seeing Ye Rudai speaking calmly, Su Yuanshan immediately thought of her efforts in the past few years to connect domestic papers with the world - although the efforts ultimately had little effect.

"Isn't this what you have been pursuing all along?" Ye Rudai looked at her husband and said with a smile.

"Ahem...yes." Su Yuanshan took a gentle breath, stood up, pulled his wife up from the chair, and then the two of them folded into the sofa at the same time.

"Don't make trouble..." Ye Rudai grabbed his hand.

"Yeah, don't make trouble." Su Yuanshan looked at each other with his wife sitting on his lap, smiling broadly: "Indeed, no one can help the rise of Chinese on wiki better - if nothing else, I give the order and Yuanxin's 100,000 soldiers will mobilize collectively, even if each person has one entry..."

"...Okay, okay, that's a bit exaggerated." Seeing his wife looking at him with a half-smile, Su Yuanshan awkwardly bumped his legs, bringing her closer to him.

The mountains are approaching, and the fragrance is coming.

"But the question is, will the other party agree? What plan have you prepared?"

"Our plan is to buy it directly, free of charge, and advertising will be considered as appropriate."

"..." Su Yuanshan frowned subconsciously: "Advertising? This thing affects the experience very much. And once ads are placed to attract traffic..."

"There's nothing we can do about it." Ye Rudai looked at Su Yuanshan: "Even the Encyclopedia Britannica back then followed the advertising plus free route."

"...Dai'er." Su Yuanshan frowned slightly, and after a few seconds of silence, he said softly: "Let's put it this way, if the wiki still maintains its philosophy, personally, I will definitely support and donate. And , I believe that encyclopedia entries like wiki will definitely be one of the main contents of the Internet in the future."

"Yes, I know." Ye Rudai looked at her husband, knowing that there was a romantic hero living in his heart. She smiled slightly and said: "You have been saying a long time ago that in at most ten years, the Internet population will welcome Come and explode - at that time, providing content will be the most important goal of an Internet company."

"I admit that wiki may be able to continue as a non-profit organization, but if it is merged with us, it will definitely be able to continue, and it can at least be better than it is now."

"Well..." Su Yuanshan nodded slowly.

With eso, the boss of the search engine, helping to attract traffic, coupled with Ye Rudai’s influence in Silicon Valley, Cyberport, and the New Technology City... In other words, the influence of these two couples in the Internet field will not be as good as today’s tailwind. It's really not easy to build a "small" free service website during times of prosperity.

"But even so, you have to consider the opinions of the founders, right? Do they agree?"

Seeing that her husband was still unwilling to give up, Ye Rudai smiled slightly.

"This time Jimmy came alone. I think... he probably discussed it with Larry. If he came here just to reject me, then there is really no need to make this trip."

"Okay, then I will accompany you to meet him tomorrow." Su Yuanshan said and bumped his feet again, and Ye Rudai immediately came over.

"Hmm...smells!"

"I'm going to die. It's broad daylight."

"I locked the door...Didn't mom tell you? Let's work hard and have another baby."

...Three thousand words are saved here.

…

The next day, Su Yuanshan actually accompanied Ye Rudai to meet Jimmy Wales, one of the founders of wiki. After they met and chatted for a few words, Su Yuanshan realized that he was a bit desperate when looking at people and things.

——Jimmy Wales hopes to maintain the integrity of the wiki in the form of a non-profit organization, but after experiencing the downturn of the Internet and the betrayal of his allies, Jimmy is really undecided now.

After all, compared to non-profit, his most important bottom line is free.

So, when Ye Rudai promised that it would be free and would only provide limited advertising and would not affect the content itself, Jimmy Wales finally agreed.

After all...he really spent a lot of money on this.

And he also knows that once he has the technology and power of eso, whether it is server pressure or promotion and expansion, wiki will be on the fast track from now on.

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After staying in HK for almost a week, Su Yuanshan also "worked hard" for a week... But according to Ye Rudai's news, his efforts were probably in vain because her aunt had just left a few days ago and she had not yet reached her ovulation period.

But Su Yuanshan didn't care.

A week later, he flew directly from HK to Shanghai.

After landing, he went directly to Deyuan without any delay.

After meeting and shaking hands with Liang Mengsong who was guarding the door, the two directly changed into the electric sightseeing car in the park and headed to the optical laboratory.

Sitting on the electric car moving silently, Su Yuanshan gently patted the handle in front of him, facing the slight wind, and said with a smile: "Did Lao Wang trick you into buying it?"

"Yeah... And we buy hundreds of them at a time, and we are big customers." Liang Mengsong chuckled: "I always hear him talk about electric cars, and I always hear you talk about electric cars... but I didn't want to come out first. This is the thing."

"Because electric sightseeing cars are so low-tech, they can't even compare to electric motorcycles." Su Yuanshan thought of the electric motorcycles he saw running on the street along the way, and said with emotion: "In order to push the battery, Lao Wang really It’s so heartbreaking. It’s just that most electric motorcycles have lead-acid batteries, right?”

"Well, but Suoxin also controls two companies that make lead-acid batteries. After all, the battery field is now considered an advantageous area of ​​our country. If we can open the application market early, we can stabilize our advantages - you this time Do you want to inspect the car factory when you come to Shanghai?"

"Well, the car factory said slowly, the main thing is your side." Su Yuanshan looked at the white building hidden behind the woods for a few seconds and then looked at Liang Mengsong with stern eyes: "Old Liang, there is still one month left, we need semiconductors." Summit.”

Liang Mengsong smiled reservedly: "Don't worry, everything is ready."

Su Yuanshan was relieved and looked into the distance again.

Now that everything is ready, it proves that all we need is the east wind.

He did not lie to Liang Mengsong. His main task here this time was indeed to inspect the immersion lithography project.

——Three days ago, Lin Benjian sent him an email saying that he could call it a day.

…

Three minutes later, the electric sightseeing car arrived at the entrance of the optical laboratory. Lin Benjian and Zhao Kaidong, who had already received the news, had been waiting for a long time.

"Dr. Lin, Uncle Zhao." Su Yuanshan jumped out of the car and walked quickly towards the two of them, shaking hands with them at the same time.

"Thank you for your hard work."

"It's not hard." Lin Benjian looked at Su Yuanshan cheerfully, still looking calm, but Zhao Kaidong's eyes were full of countless emotions and excitement.

——He is different from Lin Benjian. Lin Benjian has been serving IBM before, has "seen" "big scenes", and has led world-class scientific research units. But he... Although he is a leader in the country, people who are really engaged in technology and scientific research, no matter how well they "pretend" on the outside, deep down, they have "a few kilograms" of their own status. That couldn't be clearer.

If you don't know clearly, you can say without any hesitation that this person is a bastard.

Zhao Kaidong is an engineer who came out of the era of total blockade. He clearly knows how far behind foreign countries are in the field of light sources for civilian lithography machines. Ten years ago, it was impossible to even catch up, let alone surpass. It's something I don't dare to think about.

But it has only been ten years... China has achieved breakthroughs and catch-up in the field of Arf light sources.

——Yes, he admitted that it is still a little short of fully catching up, and it is not as good as the foundation of foreign counterparts that has been deeply rooted for many years. So much so that the main purchasing direction of Macron is still foreign companies.

But with the breakthrough of immersion lithography technology, this is the first time that China has completely surpassed the West in the field of lithography machines!

And all of this... comes from the unreserved support of the young man in front of him.

Zhao Kaidong remembered that when he saw him back then, he was probably not yet twenty, right?

Just as Zhao Kaidong was distracted, Su Yuanshan had already shaken hands with the others, said hello, and hurried inside.

"Come on, everyone, stop standing at the door and show me the prototype."

"Well, okay, the floorless room on the right."

Seeing Su Yuanshan walking like the wind, Zhao Kaidong, Lin Benjian, and Liang Mengsong looked at each other and smiled, and quickly followed him in stride.