[PS: There will be two more chapters later. I will definitely make it up to everyone today. I'm almost out of hair from all the writing.]
“wap”
This was a term that many people born in the 10s had never heard of. Even many people born in the 2000s didn't know about it, but it was indeed the initial understanding of mobile Internet access for people born in the 90s.
So the question was, what was WAP?
Simply put, WAP was a communication protocol. This protocol was between the Internet and mobile devices. If a user wanted to access the Internet through a mobile device, they had to use the WAP protocol to access it.
Simply put, WAP was actually the protocol used by mobile phones to access the Internet. Once the WAP function was installed, the mobile phone could directly access the Internet.
Therefore, one could imagine how shocked Boss Jia was when he held the Daqian 6 in his hand and demonstrated to the entire audience that he could log into the 51 search website through the screen of the Daqian 6 mobile phone.
This kind of shock was unimaginable.
Although many mobile phone industry insiders knew that mobile Internet access technology had already appeared, they didn't expect that the Daqian 6 would directly install the WAP Internet access function on the Daqian 6. This caught the mobile phone manufacturers all over the world off guard.
Looking at the screen of the Daqian 6 mobile phone, the main page of 51 search was clearly displayed … Although because it was a mobile phone screen, the entire web page was distorted and there were almost no pictures.
But this was indeed a web page. Boss Jia even personally demonstrated if 51 search was used to search for key information on the Internet.
Immediately afterward, Boss Jia announced that the Daqian 6 mobile phone and 51 search had reached a comprehensive strategic partnership. 51 search would launch a dedicated WAP web page at the same time. This was a WAP web page designed specifically for mobile browsing. It would allow mobile phone users to search more easily and freely with 51 search.
At the same time, 51Search would also launch the function of 51Search at the same time. According to Boss Jia's description, this was similar to an online encyclopedia. The employees of 51Search had manually entered 300,000 different terms into the encyclopedia. Most of the common things in the world could be found in the 51Search.
However, this was still not enough for an online encyclopedia. Hence, the 51 encyclopedias would be opened to members. All certified members would be able to add terms and explanations that had not yet been logged into the 51 encyclopedias.
In the beginning, the audience did not understand this function very well. They felt that the 51 Encyclopedic Skills did not have any use.
However, the Daqian released a special promotional video, in which the protagonist was participating in an interview with his future father-in-law.
The interviewee seemed to be an expert and scholar. His mouth was full of all kinds of technical terms, many of which he had never heard of before. It was obvious that he was making things difficult for this prospective son-in-law.
In the end, he won the favor of his father-in-law, who thought that his daughter had found a knowledgeable boyfriend, and happily agreed to their relationship.
However, at the end of the promotional video, it could be seen from the side that the daughter, who seemed to be constantly playing with her mobile phone, was actually using the 51 Encyclopedia to search for various technical terms that her father-in-law was talking about. Then, she placed the mobile phone in a place where her boyfriend could see it. This allowed her boyfriend to answer his father-in-law so fluently.
This promotional video made many people instantly understand the value of the 51 Encyclopedia. As long as there was a mobile phone that could surf the Internet, they could instantly get the answer to any knowledge blind spot. This was simply the best encyclopedia in the world!
Of course, there were many videos that demonstrated the various functions of the mobile phone's WAP Internet access. Because Boss Jia came from the future, he naturally knew how important the mobile phone network was and how integrated it was into life.
Therefore, the promotional videos of these mobile phone applications made all the audience's blood boil. They also became particularly envious of a mobile phone that could surf the Internet.
Finally, after Boss Jia's introduction, it was time for free questions. In the end, the first person who received the right to ask a question was not a reporter, but a technical manager from Nokia.
Originally, it was already embarrassing for a Nokia employee to attend the press conference. He should not have asked a question, but he still stood up because there were some questions that he had to ask Jia Yapeng face to face.
"Mr. Jia, did your Daqian mobile phone make this WAP? Why didn't our industry association have any related information? Your WAP, did you plagiarize our WAP!!! "The engineer angrily questioned.
Of course, he was angry.
This was because using mobile phones to surf the internet was not Boss Jia's genius idea. In fact, since 1995, mobile phone manufacturers had been aware of the mobile phone network. However, all the mobile phone manufacturers generally believed that in the era where the computer network was not suitable enough, using a low-level mobile phone screen to surf the internet was simply a fantasy.
In the next 20 years, mobile phone surfing would not have any practical value.
However, the mobile phone industry still had technological reserves. In history, Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia, and other major mobile phone companies established a WAP forum in 1997. Then, in 1999, Nokia launched the world's first mobile phone with WAP function.
Therefore, from this point of view, it seemed that the emergence of Boss Jia caused WAP to fall behind.
In fact, this was also the case. In another world, the reason why WAP was able to appear in 1997 was that at that time, GSM network base stations dominated the industry. CDMA base stations were almost invisible, so WAP could be used directly by GSM base stations. It was very versatile.
However, in this era, CDMA was born in advance. Although GSM base stations occupied most of the market, it was only about 60% in total. A single WAP could not meet the needs of all base stations.
It was precisely because of this that Nokia and other companies in this world were not very interested in WAP research and development. Because in their opinion, even if WAP was developed, it would be difficult to promote it globally.
But in 1998, Nokia and other companies realized this point. So, they started to research and develop WAP, as well as the matching of various agreements.
In another world, WAP research and development was actually open to the public. At that time, Motorola, Ericsson, and Nokia jointly established a WAP forum. This forum was open to all mobile phone industry people all over the world. WAP research and development was also completely open. There were no patent restrictions, so WAP easily dominated the entire world. All mobile phones used WAP to surf the Internet.
However, in this world, the three companies had kept a secret. They wanted to hide their WAPs as a trump card to deal with the Da Qian people.
According to their original plan, their WAP mobile phone would be officially launched in 2001, and it would be the first batch of mobile phones in the world with Internet access. They would make Da Qian, who could not access the Internet, cry out in pain. They even asked them to authorize the WAP patent and technology for Da Qian to use.
But they never expected that today, Daqian 6 mobile phones would release WAP function in advance!
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