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Chapter 848: Layout of the Internet (Fourth update, please subscribe)
Overnight, Nanyang became a hot spot.

It didn't happen overnight. It was under internal and external troubles that Nanyang became a popular destination.

As for how much this hot commodity is worth?
This is naturally full of unknowns.

Of course, as we all know, Li Yian is a businessman. As a successful businessman, he definitely lives up to his mentor's words: "As long as there is profit, capitalists will sell the noose to those who are about to hang them."

Therefore, everything in Nanyang can be negotiated.

The premise is - as long as the price is right.

However, Li Yian didn't know about the Americans' decision, just like he didn't know how Eisenhower evaluated him. If he said he was a successful businessman, he would definitely agree, but extortion?

This is absolutely an insult!

Even if that guy said it to his face, he would firmly deny it. As we all know, businessmen are just businessmen. They just grasp the supply and demand market. As for whether the market is balanced, that is the market of the market. What does it have to do with businessmen?
Since there is an imbalance, the price will definitely be high. This is the market.

It’s the economy. Isn’t it the market economy that the United States has been advocating for many years?

However, Li Yian had no chance to discuss this topic with Eisenhower at all. After all, Eisenhower was the one who was having a headache now, as for Li Yian himself!
These days, his mood has become quite comfortable, not because of the rockets. Although it is really comfortable to give rockets to the queen and play single-stage rockets, multi-stage rockets and bundled rockets with his family members.

But, as a man, you can't just focus on being the top guy and sending rockets.

Rockets are fun, but you have to have other goals in life.

In fact, my mood these past two days has been completely amused by that funny guy in the United States.

Because the United States - as expected, the United States rushed into this track like a mad dog.

They immediately established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States - apparently inspired by the Nanyang Aeronautics and Space Administration, so they followed the example of Nanyang to establish an administrative scientific research institution responsible for formulating and implementing the US space program. When it comes to learning advanced experiences from other countries, the United States is absolutely open-minded.

He also spent tens of millions to bribe his own people to delay time, but ended up losing face in front of the whole world.

Although it is well known that politicians are shameless, after a series of humiliations, the United States will definitely be crazier than in history.

How crazy they will get is unclear, but they will certainly take bigger steps in the space race than in history.

"If you take big steps, you may hurt yourself..." Looking at the city outside the car window, Li Yian's mouth curled up slightly.

"The rest depends on how far they can go on this road."

all the best!
Feeling proud, Li Yian, who had just returned from the King's Laboratory, once again thought of the red light he saw in the laboratory - the laser.

King's Laboratory has invented the ruby ​​laser!

With laser, the next step is optical fiber.

With fiber optic cables, the Internet can be launched.

“It should be called the Internet!”

With a slight smile on his lips, Li Yian found that the feeling of being named by Nanyang was quite good.

Isn’t this naming right a symbol of Nanyang’s contribution to human civilization?

"In fact, even without optical fiber, the Internet can be established,"

In another world, in the 60s, as the Soviet economy grew rapidly, management problems surged, and a large amount of data was generated that was difficult to handle manually. Many tasks needed to be completed with the help of computers and industrial control systems, and it was almost impossible for various industrial sectors to synchronize information. This need for information interconnection led some scientists to work on building a nationwide Internet network to get the Soviet economy running again. They had been urging government officials to approve them to build a computer network to connect thousands of machines in the Soviet Union. This network could have rivaled the nascent networks in the United States and Western Europe, which were further developed and eventually became the Internet. But the authorities did not support their initiative. Despite the official disapproval, they eventually established small-scale local area networks in some cities. At a university in Novosibirsk, a computer was directly connected to a computer in Moscow thousands of kilometers away. The network cable they used was solid metal, although it was very inefficient, and it was only the prototype of the network, not a real network. Unfortunately, in the end, their initiative was rejected by the authorities, and ultimately led to the disappearance of the Soviet Internet.

But for Nanyang, even the experience of failure can be used as a reference.

What if we start our research from this aspect?

"How about letting the universities try it out first? Or, in other words, giving them an idea first?"

Many times, great inventions begin with an idea.

“How did the Internet develop?”

Although Li Yian's brows were furrowed, even with his systematically reinforced memory, he basically had no idea about the history and development of the Internet. At most, he only knew some basic concepts.

"The basic concept is that the large computers owned by universities and research institutes are now independent devices, and some standard protocol can be used to allow computers produced by different manufacturers to communicate."

"That is to say, when setting corresponding standards, yes, standards are the most expensive,"

In fact, standards are not expensive. The reason why standards are expensive is that the standard setters make them expensive. This is exactly the experience that Li Yian brought from another world. Therefore, he has always liked to be an industry pioneer, all for the sake of setting standards!
"All computers using this standard protocol can communicate with each other through the Internet. This is the first step of the Internet, which also includes things like "E-mail", and then..."

While Li Yian was thinking, the car had already arrived at the official residence. After returning to the residence, he locked himself in the study and continued to study the Internet, although he did not know much about it.

But as a young person of the new century who has grown up entirely in the Internet age, it is very easy to come up with some ideas.

In fact, the Internet seems mysterious.

But at the beginning, the idea was not complicated. It was nothing more than connecting electronic computers through the Internet and then realizing information transmission between universities.

That is, e-mail, which is basic data sharing.

Of course, this network can also be handed over to the military.

After all, in another world, the prototype of the Internet originated from the military, which is also related to the artificial satellites that have been in the spotlight recently.

In another world, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial earth satellite in 1957, the United States was very afraid that the Soviet Union would directly destroy the US command center through space means. The US Department of Defense believed that it was necessary to establish a decentralized military command network, which consisted of many decentralized command nodes, and could still maintain normal operation even if part of it was destroyed.

Almost a decade later, the United States began to develop ARPANET, which connected four hosts at the University of California, Stanford University, the University of California, and the University of Utah to the same network. Although the transmission speed was only 50Kbps at the time, it had achieved information interconnection and eventually developed into a playground in the civilian field, and continued to develop in the process, bringing mankind into the Internet age.

Nanyang Wan repeated a similar path, but went a little earlier and further. Even if you have never eaten pork, you have seen pigs walk. For Li Yian, who has experienced the Internet era, he at least does not need to guess what the Internet is.

It is easy to come up with an idea, but it is somewhat difficult to refine this idea. From the evening until late at night, when Li Yian wrote down the concept of the mutual network and some technical concepts based on his memory, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening.

Perhaps because he was about to kick open the door to the Internet, Li Yian still felt a little excited after his busy work, so he took a walk alone in the garden of the official residence.

"That's it. We can wait and see about optical fiber first. We can also use telephone lines first. We can do it step by step. Oh, and there are also personal computers. We need to solve this problem as well."

We are busy doing so much just to go online. Maybe in the future we will have the chance to post messages on forums, make an appointment with an online friend on chat software, or meet up with someone in person.

Thinking of this, Li Yian's mouth corners raised, and his face was full of anticipation.

What I am looking forward to is not things like meeting friends online or in person, but a more distant future.

After all, by then, what will appear before his eyes is a future full of countless possibilities.

(End of this chapter)