Don't be fooled by the fact that the name NeXTSTEP isn't widely known in later generations.
But its gold content is truly, undeniably, very high.
Without NeXTSTEP, Apple's macOS-X would have lost its foundation.
Without NeXTSTEP, even the development of the Internet would be affected to some extent.
Because the early World Wide Web WWW ran on NeXTSTEP.
This very point served as a reminder to Lin Lixin.
The World Wide Web is less than a year away from its launch, and I can certainly give it a push and accelerate the process.
The faster the internet develops, the better it is for his gaming career.
With the Internet that NEXUS is gradually building as its foundation, the World Wide Web has a fertile ground for survival.
Thinking of this, Lin Lixin shook his head helplessly.
In order to make games, he practically dabbled in semiconductors and communications.
That's quite a roundabout way of doing things.
"Wor----WorIdWideWeb?"
In the laboratory, Jobs repeated the words Lin Lixin had just mentioned, trying to understand their meaning.
WorldWide sounds like an exaggerated expression.
That's like saying, "I can connect the whole world!" It's incredibly arrogant.
As for the "Web" part, that's much easier to understand.
The internet, for example, is a classic mesh structure.
In the online world, information is neither tree-like nor linear, but rather an interwoven and complex network.
"Yes, World Wide Web."
Lin Lixin nodded and patiently explained, "Imagine if we had software that could take us directly to the corresponding site in the network system simply by telling it what content we want to access."
"As long as we know the address, we can get directly to the corresponding location, just like driving to visit a friend."
"However, I prefer to call it a webpage or a website."
This concept may seem somewhat abstract and vague to people in this era.
But for those who work with PCs year-round, especially for Jobs, an engineer who specifically reserved a full Ethernet interface for his workstations, this is not hard to understand.
Seeing that Jobs seemed to have roughly understood what he meant, Lin Lixin then looked at Carmack was standing silently to the side.
" Carmack, how's the thing I asked for?"
Not long ago, Lin Lixin handed Carmack a document so detailed it sent chills down one's spine.
Now it's time to see how the results are.
"Of course it's all done."
Carmack grinned and led the two to a NeXT workstation. "I've completed a demo according to the requirements in your document."
He picked up the keyboard and typed a line of text.
<h1>HelloWorld!</h1>
Lin said he wanted to write something here.
In short, I should write something here.
</body></html>
Carmack then saved the text and launched a program on the desktop that didn't even have an icon.
After a brief loading period, a window pops up on the screen.
Against a pure white background, a large font displays the words "HelloWorld!".
Below are two lines of rambling thoughts in normal size.
" HTML Language and HTTP Protocol, is that what you mean, right?"
He scratched his head, looking at Lin Lixin with a somewhat embarrassed expression, as if waiting for the teacher to grade his test paper.
"Well done!"
Lin Lixin nodded in satisfaction.
Although it's still somewhat rudimentary, it's clear that they've basically only done what's currently visible.
But the fact that he was able to produce all this in such a short time, following the documentation, is already incredibly impressive.
With a few more improvements, this could become the starting point for the explosive growth of the Internet.
According to modern terminology, its proper name should be----
"Browser."
Lin Lixin slowly uttered this word, which would have become commonplace in later generations.
For once, Lin Lixin felt his heart skip a beat.
He hadn't felt this level of excitement in a long time.
The more we understand the future of the internet world, the more excited we will feel about what is happening right now.
I was so excited I was trembling.
For the information world, its birth was no less significant than the first time an ape looked up at the Starfield, the first time an electric light was turned on, or the first time ENIAC completed a calculation.
"HTML? You developed a new language specifically for this?"
Jobs paused, taken aback.
Why would Gamenova develop a completely new language when they already have the N Language?
"No."
Lin Lixin shook his head and took a deep breath. "It's not a programming language; it's just a set of rules that describe the structure and content of a webpage."
"So it's for—"
Jobs was speaking when he suddenly froze on the spot.
In that instant, he finally understood what Lin Lixin was planning to do.
"Browser—so that's what it means."
This is for browsers.
Regardless of the platform, as long as a browser that complies with the rules is developed, the entire webpage can be displayed.
Even on NovaXeno!
It's not platform-dependent or language-dependent at all.
"The NeXT workstation won't be the only device capable of accessing websites, but it can be the most suitable personal terminal for developing and deploying websites."
For a website, IBM mainframes might be too redundant, but C64 would certainly be too weak.
SGI's graphics stations excel only at graphics processing.
And NeXT----
It's perfect for this job.
The magnetic disc drive offers hundreds of megabytes of storage, a sufficiently high-resolution display, a high-quality sound chip, and powerful chip performance.
These seem to have been created specifically for this need.
"Create a demand—my God—"
Jobs swallowed hard.
When he looked again at the performance monster he had created with his own hands, his eyes had completely changed.
In the dim light, he seemed to see a whole new world beckoning to him.
He had a premonition.
A genius's premonitions are always incredibly accurate.
He had a premonition that he was about to witness the dawn of a new era.
And now, I am standing at the Daimon of this era, about to become one of the people who will open that door.
Mid-March.
NeXT-Computer has been officially launched, bundled with a software called "Neus Browser ".
Using this software, developers can easily design their own web pages (or even websites) on this machine and deploy them on the machine with a single click.
On the same day as NeXT-Computer, a floppy disk version of the Neus Browser, developed in C Language, as well as a notebook-based Neus Browser and an NX-based browser, both developed in N Language.
At the same time, the world's first website was also personally established by Lin Lixin.
Simply enter the corresponding domain name in Neus to access it on any platform.