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"What? I didn't expect someone else to be developing a graphical browser?" Carol frowned and said with a slight sigh.

Adam asked Tonares to stare at the development progress of Mosaic as early as a few months ago, but found nothing. It was not recovered until a while ago, saying that a person named Marc at the University of Illinois is developing this project with his colleagues, and it seems to have disappeared now. It is almost finished and has entered the testing stage. According to what he said, they will officially release the Alpha version in January 1993, but this version can only run on XWindow.Adam originally wanted to say that if it came out, it would be like they bought a patent, but he was told that even if the patent was applied for, it still belonged to the school, and he needed to buy it from the school. patent.

Therefore, Adam can only wait until the Mosaic browser officially enters the market next year, so that he can buy the patent of the Mosaic browser in the name they are optimistic about and develop by himself.

After all, the Mosaic browser is the predecessor of Netscape, and what is Netscape, that is the beginning of the legend of the Internet. It once created an astonishing record of a market value of 27 billion US dollars in one day. This was a miracle in the 90s, and it also inspired the following Founder of companies like Yahoo, Amazon, and Google.

However, since Carol also designed the browser, there is no need to worry over there. In fact, a browser that can display images is not too difficult for experienced and excellent programmers. The most important thing is the idea , In the Internet age, ideas are often far more important than abilities.

"As far as I know, they are still in the late stage of debugging and have not applied for a patent. This is our opportunity." Adam said with a smile, and he was very happy with this unexpected result.

"Yes, Carl, we're going to apply for a patent for the program tomorrow. Although it may not be of any value, but after working hard for more than a month, we can't take advantage of the people at the University of Illinois. What do you think?" Harvey Owen followed Adam's words.

"Well, I think so too." After hearing Adam's words, Carol was also relieved. Although he was a little puzzled why Adam was so familiar with the University of Illinois, he didn't ask questions on the spot. Anyway, there will be a moment later. .

"Okay, since this is the case, in order to celebrate your successful development, I invite you to dine at Le Mistral restaurant today. How do you like it?" Adam clapped his hands and said to several people.

"Le Mistral restaurant? I remember you have to make a reservation at least one week in advance." Camp Kirk asked his question. As one of the most famous French restaurants in San Francisco, countless people are waiting to reserve a seat. Not available, where you can go if you think of it on the spur of the moment.

But apparently Adam had thought about it a long time ago. He said with a smile: "The owner and chef of the restaurant is a fan of me. We had a very pleasant conversation when we ate at the restaurant last time. He allowed me to have a different time every month. Opportunity to dine in with a reservation.”

"Ha, then we are lucky today. I heard that there is Obric steak, Aligo cheese and mashed potatoes, etc., which are delicious and unimaginable." Thomas confirmed in Adam that he can go to the legendary LeMistral After eating in the restaurant, my saliva almost flowed down the floor.

"Then what are you waiting for, pack up and go." Adam said to several people with a wave of his hand.

Then I saw a few people rushing to several rooms to get dressed, leaving only Carol and Adam in the hall, looking at each other.

"Hey, you know you're like a Robinson Crusoe lost on a desert island now." Adam kissed his lips, brushed his chin against Carol's untrimmed beard, and joked with a smile.

"What about you? Mr. Friday?" Carol was not affected by Adam's words in the slightest, and still replied with a smile. Adam traveled hundreds of miles because he was worried about him, which made him feel so good that he exploded.

Originally, he felt hurt because Adam was busy with his career and left him indifferent, but this time, Adam's concern and tension for him repaired his wounded heart instantly. He leaned forward and rubbed the tip of Adam's nose with his nose, saying : "Adam, I miss you very much."

"But you disappeared from my world for half a month." Adam didn't appreciate it. Although he was also responsible for this matter, there was a person in front of him who would definitely take the blame, so he naturally threw the blame out. It is the best policy.

"I'm sorry, I've been thinking about what to give you this year before Thanksgiving, and then I have the Eden Project." Carol explained to Adam: "Eden is the name of this browser, and I invited a few people I know Developed together, I thought it could be completed within half a month, but there were some problems in the middle, which led to the complete completion until today."

"Huh?" Adam was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the development of this browser had his own reasons, but he was very happy: "Carl, this is the best gift I have received, thank you."

"As long as you like it." Carol looked at Adam's joyful expression, finally let go of the anxiety in his heart, relaxed his whole body, and said with a smile: "Then we will put the Garden of Eden on the Internet this week, There must be many people who will love our browser."

"No doubt! By the way, I forgot to ask you, what system is your browser based on? Xwindow, Microsoft or Apple?" Adam asked curiously.

Released in the early 80s, Xwindow was the most popular computer operating system in the 80s, and it was also the first entry-level operating system for most Internet users at that time, and it was widely spread.

There is no way for the other two. The mac operating system is the second computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) for Apple Computer after LISA. It only runs on computers sold by Apple, and it has inherent limitations.

As for Microsoft's windows system, there is nothing to say, but although they began to develop the operating system in 1985, it was not until the release of Windows 1990 developed in 3.0, because of the interface, humanization, and memory management. After a huge improvement, it finally won the approval of users. Now, after a year or two, it can be regarded as a firm foothold and a large market share in the operating system cake.

"Of course it is Xwindow!" Carol said decisively: "Our computers all use this system, so it is natural to develop the Xwindow system, but it is also possible to develop the version of the madows system. After all, it is only a matter of system compatibility, not too big. development difficulty."

"You said, what if we start a formal company with the Eden browser as the core?" Adam asked suddenly after listening to Carroll's talk.

"Is it necessary?" Carol looked at Adam curiously. He knew that Carol was very interested in this aspect and was very optimistic about it since he had just heard him talk about the development progress of the browser at the University of Illinois. With such a busy work situation, it is impossible for Adam to be distracted by an obscure Internet development project at a university he is not familiar with.

"Of course, I believe this browser with graphics will be widely welcomed." Adam said confidently.

"I have no opinion, but if you want it, I'll give it to you. Tonares should be familiar with the process of how to start a company. You can just leave it to him, and it doesn't take much trouble." Carol Tan Tanshou looked indifferent. To be honest, although he was very confident in the browser he developed, he didn't believe that he could make much money from it. Since Adam wanted to develop it, he developed it.

"What are you talking about? This browser was developed by you, and naturally it belongs to you. How could I take it from you?" Although Adam wanted to take advantage of Netscape's popularity a long time ago, But since it was developed by Carroll, how could he take it? There are so many good ideas in the Internet age, and even if he really wants to get a share of it, it's not a big deal.

But obviously, Adam misunderstood Carol's words because of his own selfishness.In his opinion, the Eden browser will be worth billions of dollars in the future, but in Carol's view, it is just a gift that he thinks is good and can make Adam happy. It is so important, seeing Adam I misunderstood myself, and hurriedly hugged him and said helplessly: "Hey! Hey! Hey! I'm telling the truth. After all, I'm not familiar with these things, and if I start a company to promote them, all of them need capital investment. We No."

"I can lend it to you, Carl. Although I admit that I am very interested in this browser, but it is developed by you, so it is yours, and I will not participate." Adam also knew that he had misunderstood, but he still declared He has expressed his position, he likes money, he does not deny this, but because he likes money, he will not rob the project that the person he wants to love has worked so hard to develop, it is immoral and not worth it.

"There's nothing to argue about." After changing his clothes, he saw that Adam and Carol were talking. He originally wanted to wait for them to finish talking before coming out, but the two chatted endlessly. If this continues, the dinner at night will be ruined So Camp Kirk stood up for the big meal and said to the two of them: "Eden Browser was developed by Carroll, if it is to be promoted, with Carroll's net worth, he must find angel investors." , and Adam, you are a super best-selling author, and you have a lot of dollars to provide angel funds, throwing away the intimate relationship between the two of you, and thinking about it with normal business logic, isn't this a very simple question?"

The author has something to say: This piece is quite difficult to write, I know no matter how you write it, there will always be opinions, but it doesn’t matter, so be it, anyway, the relationship between the two husbands and wives will never break up in this life It doesn't matter who is more or less.