wild 1995

Chapter 95 Technology

In 1995, California did not start to implement daylight saving time until April, and there was a 4-hour time difference between Silicon Valley and Pengcheng, so when Di Ye received the email from Mark Anderson, it was already the morning of March 16.

"An annual salary of $10, 2 original shares, this guy is really generous and shrewd."

According to historical information, Netscape had launched its IPO plan in March, planning to issue 3 million shares, with a valuation of around US$300-10 per share, and 12 shares would be more than US$2, which is indeed generous.

Although Anderson's ability to write code is average, his business vision is really first-class. After the Netscape collapse, he not only created a company with a market value of more than 10 billion US dollars, but also invested in Skype, Facebook, Coinbase and many other unicorn companies. From web1.0.

In order to facilitate the work of the R&D team, Di Ye placed his computer at the front of the living room. When he was reading emails, Su Zhaonian happened to pass by with a glass of water. When he saw the word Netscape, he immediately gathered around to watch, and then yelled and released the content to the public, which aroused the envy and jealousy of all team members.

Fu Chuanyi, who was reading the newspaper on the balcony, couldn't sit still any longer, and ran over to remind him, "Di Ye, if you want to stay in school for further study, even if you want to work in the United States, you have to wait until you graduate with a Ph.D."

"Mr. Fu, don't worry, I won't go to the United States, because the annual salary of 10 US dollars is too low."

Cheng Zhongwei was jealous, and he was very upset when he heard the words, and said: "Mr. Hua, the annual salary of 10 US dollars is more than 80 RMB. You still think that is too little?"

"I can earn 200 million in one winter vacation, is 80 a year too much?"

Di Ye divided his property information into three levels. The lowest level was the 255 million he earned from selling Yingfeng shares, which his parents, teachers, and classmates knew about; the second level was the 327 million he earned from 2300 Treasury bond futures, which only Huang Ya and Xia’s siblings knew;

Cheng Zhongwei was still unconvinced, and argued: "You can't make money every winter vacation. Netscape not only guarantees your income in droughts and floods, but also has the opportunity to get a green card. A green card is much more precious than your 250 million yuan."

"Have you heard Cheng Zhongwei's words?"

Di Ye has always respected the fate of others, and also respected the life choices of others. He stood up and clapped his hands without arguing, and said, "Athlon has only been online for a day, and it has attracted the attention of Netscape, so you all work hard and try to make something famous. Maybe everyone will receive such an invitation in the future."

In 1995, when the United States was in full swing, getting a green card was the ultimate dream of many people. As soon as this statement came out, the morale of the team members skyrocketed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, this morale came and went quickly, and it disappeared without a trace after a while. Because the gap was too great, the team members had to go through Di Ye's explanation to understand the source code of HTTPd. However, Di Ye was able to point out various problems in the code and how to improve it while explaining.

"It was like playing with Batistuta, he stole the limelight."

"Playing football with Batty can't be in the limelight, but it will be very cool, so your analogy is wrong. It should be said that it feels like picking up girls with Andy Lau, so I feel aggrieved."

"You're a fucking genius!"

"Can you stop imitating Mr. Hua's words and praise me?"

"Shh... have you guys had enough trouble, stop talking and concentrate on listening."

After Di Ye returned from Hong Kong on March 3, he said that all the team members would not even have time to go to the toilet, not to make them too busy to write codes, but to let them read the codes so that they can master the basic knowledge of network programming before they can really work.

He brought back a dozen CDs from Hong Kong, which contained nearly 500 types of open source software. Among them, the team members focused on two, one was Linux 1.2, and the other was HTTPd 1.3.

1995 was the turning point for the popularization of the World Wide Web from the professional field to the general public. With the increasing popularity of the Netscape browser, many small and medium-sized companies and individual users began to build their own websites. However, these users could not afford the high-priced servers sold by companies such as Netscape, SUN, and IBM. They could only choose to build servers with a combination of PC+Linux+HTTPd.

HTTPd was originally developed by a NCSA programmer named Robert McCool. He and his twin brother were members of the Mosic R&D team. In April 1994, they were poached by Mark Anderson to Netscape.

Since HTTPd is free software, after McCool left, a mail group composed of 8 people spontaneously continued to maintain it, and in April 1995, it was renamed Apache, taking the homonym of "a patchy server", which means server software full of patches.

After the appearance of Apache, it quickly replaced HTTPd and became the first killer application on the GUN/Linux platform, turning Linux from a hacker's toy into a reliable productivity tool.

What Di Ye has to do now is to create a web server software of his own before the birth of Apache, seize its status and luck, and transform the core HTTP protocol of the World Wide Web.

Tim Berners-Lee developed the world's first web server and the first web browser at the end of 1990. The HTTP protocol used at that time was very simple. There was only GET request, and it did not support headers. The amount of information that could be transmitted between the browser and the server was very small. It only supported hypertext and did not support pictures.

From 1991 to 1995, the HTTP protocol has been ignored and not standardized, leading some people to start adding private protocols independently. For example, when Mark Anderson and others were developing Mosic, they added the Content-Type header to allow browsers to display image content.

The first HTTP protocol standard was released by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in May 1996. Before that, various protocols were uniformly written as HTTP/5. This time, the standard was written as HTTP/0.9, and then HTTP/1.0 was released in January 1997. This standard has been in use for 1 years, and HTTP/1.1 was not released until 18. However, in 2015, many websites still use HTTP/2.

Compared with web design technologies such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript, the HTTP protocol is relatively simple and easier to promote, so Di Ye plans to use it to gain reputation first. After all, the W3C group is too difficult to deal with. Although the IETF is not a soft persimmon, its efficiency is extremely low. It only holds three meetings a year, and there is a lot of room for manipulation.

In the morning, Di Ye spent more than 3 hours explaining the source code of HTTPd in ​​general, and then asked the team members to discuss and research in groups, while he packed his backpack and prepared to go out for lunch.

Fu Chuanyi saw that most of the team members were distressed, and the discussion was not very active. He was worried that the teaching effect would not be good, so he chased him out and said, "Di Ye, are you talking too fast? I think many people can't keep up."

Di Ye doesn't like the long-winded teaching method, and prefers to let people learn while practicing. He said with a smile: "Mr. Fu, they are all excellent college students with a solid foundation and strong self-learning ability. Just read the code a few times and try to write it by hand. You will be able to get started soon."

"Then you have to give them time to look at the code."

"I won't be here this afternoon, let them look at the code."

Fu Chuanyi no longer prevents Di Ye from going out, because as long as he stays here, the spirits of the team members will plummet, so he didn't bother to ask, and said: "Since you don't plan to go to work in that American company, you'd better write a reply to explain, lest people think you are rude."

"I'll write at night."

"Okay, let's go then."

Di Ye walked out of the community with his bag on his back and was about to take a taxi back to the hotel when he heard the phone ringing in his pocket. That’s right, it was a phone. After he returned from Hong Kong, he replaced the bulky Panda mobile phone with the lightweight Ericsson GH398, which weighs only 170 grams and is much more convenient to use.

The call was from Xia Fangfei. She flew to Jinling with Xia Jianwu yesterday. She was going back to Yuncheng to apply for multiple business visas to Hong Kong, then went to Beijing for an interview, and finally came to Pengcheng.

"Di Ye, I won't go to the capital for an interview."

"What?"

"My dad had a showdown with me in the morning, saying that he arranged for me to go to the capital for an interview. On the one hand, he wanted me to find a good job, and on the other hand, he wanted me to go on a blind date with his comrade-in-arms' son. Now that I have your boyfriend, I don't have to go."

"If you don't go, don't go. From now on, obediently work for me, and I will support you."

"You want me to be good, what work?"

(End of this chapter)