Chapter 143 The Big Bang Theory

The first time he went online, Lin Hong looked very excited.

He first browsed around the "Tulip" BBS. In an online time, he read almost all the meaningful posts on this BBS, especially those technical articles added to the essence by the moderator. Lin Hong read it very carefully.

In these sections, there are often some posts written for newcomers who have just entered BBS to guide them to how to use existing resources to solve their problems independently if they have problems. If they really can't find the answer, then post to ask questions.

In addition, the moderator of the person in charge often organizes some common questions and makes them into a "FAQ list", that is, a list of frequently asked questions, which is customized at the top of their respective sections.

These posts are generally read by Lin Hong. Reading these index posts can greatly save him the time to find information, and he can quickly grow from a rookie who is new to an old bird with rich experience and knowledge.

The latest industry technology news, major famous hardware and software manufacturers in the United States, what is a domain name, what is a WEB server, hardware problems, software bug debugging...

Lin Hong found that he was facing an unprecedented huge amount of information, and the perimeter of his knowledge edge suddenly expanded rapidly because of logging in to the network. From a small pond, it suddenly became a big lake, and there was even a trend towards the ocean.

He estimated that if the information of Mr. Lin Lin on this "Tulip" forum could be printed, there might be dozens of books.

The problem is that there are hundreds of such BBS in the United States. Moreover, in addition to these BBS, there are other types of websites, which also contain a large amount of information. What's more frightening is that this information is growing all the time, just like the original universe. Since the original Big Bang, it has expanded tirelessly, as if there is no end.

Lin Hong read these posts quickly and absorbed the useful knowledge contained in them. His brain had never run as fast as this moment, and the content in the display was quickly refreshed under his quick operation.

Soon, all the practical posts on Tulip BBS since its creation have been browsed by Lin Hong. After reading these posts, Lin Hong is no longer the rookie who knew nothing before. He has successfully promoted, and even in the face of some questions from the rookie, he can also quote the previous one. Answer some old birds.

Then, Lin Hong followed the content of a post on Tulip and logged in to a BBS in Australia. Thinking that he had crossed the Pacific Ocean at this moment and was browsing the content on the server on the other side of the earth, Lin Hong had a very wonderful feeling in his heart, as if he had and Foreign ham, no, it feels better than at that time.

Lin Hong is not picky at all at this time. As long as there is content, he will go to see it. This BBS seems to be a hacker-themed station in Australia. Of course, the content of the discussion is full of goods, and most of them are newcomers.

Lin Hong browsed the essence of the post from the back to the inside. Soon, a title attracted his attention--

"Human society has entered the era of the information explosion!"

The big bang of information?

A very vivid description.

This statement is just a little similar to what Lin Hong thought before, so he felt a kind of resonance, so he immediately typed in the corresponding number of the post and began to read it.

The author of this article first briefly reviewed the development history of human civilization, starting from the ancient Stone Age and the Bronze Age, and then to the modern steam era and the chemical industry era. In it, the author focuses on describing the changes of information carriers and the changes in information dissemination, giving many examples, and finally It is concluded that the change in the mode of information dissemination has an immeasurable impact on the promotion of human civilization, and the impact is increasing day by day.

Today, with the development of computer technology and network technology, the whole society will completely enter the era of the Big Bang, and it will have an immeasurable impact on human civilization.

As for what impact it will have, the author said that he has not figured it out, but there are two points to be sure: First, there are huge business opportunities in the huge amount of information. Within five to ten years from now, there will be new world-class spoilers who will take advantage of the situation.

Second, the big explosion of information means that we are getting closer and closer to the truth of the world. The secret of not seeing the light hidden in the fog in the past will be more and more likely to be exposed to the eyes of the public. Internet users will become a force that cannot be ignored, and will be "OUT_OF_CONTROL (Uncontrollable)" and "Anarchism".

This post is actually very short, with only two or three hundred words. The author only gave two prophetic conclusions, but there is no strong argument to support his assertion.

From the number of clicks and replies of this post, it can be seen that only a few people have viewed this post, and only two people have replied to this post, and the content is meaningless, but the rookie replied purely to join in the fun.

However, Lin Hong agrees with these two views, especially the second point: the information explosion will cause us to get closer and closer to the truth of the world.

This is an intuitive feeling, and he can't tell why.

Seeing the "secret of not seeing the light hidden in the fog", Lin Hong involuntarily remembered the information extracted from the Sharoman Snake chip.

"If one day in the future, the computer network is extremely developed, everyone can publish information on the Internet, and it should also be able to see useful information from the massive amount of information. In this sense, we will indeed get closer and closer to the truth.

Lin Hong took a look at the author's network ID of this post.

"Mendax?"

He felt that the author had a deep idea and wanted to see his other posts. As a result, he used the search function in BBS and found that the user had only published such a post. This was the first post he posted, and the last one, not even a reply.

"What a mysterious guy."

Lin Hong gave up and began to read other posts in BBS.

Finally, he came to the "software section" and began to check some of the software contributed by programmers. These software are written and uploaded by users in BBS. The functions are relatively simple, but they can complete some very interesting functions, such as making their own display. The text on the screen suddenly fell like a snowflake, and then returned to its original state. Many people usually publish the source code together on the BBS FTP server. In this way, people communicate and improve their programming skills.

A post titled "Free Dial-up Internet Program" attracted Lin Hong's attention and looked at the time. This is a newly published post. The author said that he has just written this program, which can break through the charging rules of telecommunications companies and fully realize free Internet access. However, the author did not describe in the post why it was possible to surf the Internet for free.

Lin Hong had a strong interest in this software. He wanted to know the operation mechanism behind the software, so he downloaded the applet according to the FTP address given in the post.

Looking at this small program ending in EXE, Lin Hong was a little hesitant.

"This is not a virus program, is it?"

After reading so many posts, he also knows that there are viruses in the computer. Once infected with these viruses, the computer will have many very strange problems, such as memory being occupied, inexplicably appearing other files on the disk, suddenly being formatted, etc. Although many users have posted some of their experiences and symptoms of poisoning, Lin Hong still has no idea about it.

Virus is a special program that can replicate itself. It is replicable, infectious and destructive.

Lin Hong has seen descriptions of computer viruses in many posts, but so far he still lacks sufficient understanding of this horrible-sounding program. On the BBS he sees, there is no content about the virus operation mechanism and writing method.

Everyone is very unkold about computer viruses. Some of them are just posts that ask for help after being poisoned. At this time, there are often one or two technical experts, giving a few simple solutions, and then the rookies will soon reply to thank Yunyun.

In the end, the curiosity about the program function overcame the fear of unknown viruses, and Lin Hong executed the applet he downloaded.

A graphical interface appears in front of him, which is a login box. Lin Hong is very familiar with it, which is very similar to the software login box he used to dial before. The content on the interface prompts Lin Hong to fill in his account number and password, and then you can enjoy the fun of free Internet access.

Lin Hong filled in his account number and password, and then hit the enter key to run.

A dialog box pops up in the display, showing "Thank you for your cooperation!"

Then, Lin Hong saw that the monitor suddenly turned black and there was no picture.

Lin Hong couldn't scream well. He immediately pressed the shortcut key to terminate the program and found that there was no response. Then, he randomly pressed the other keys on the keyboard, and the same was true.

Lin Hong thought it was dead, so he pressed the power button to restart the system.

But to his great surprise, a line of English appeared in the upper left corner of the display: "invalid_drive_specification"

Lin Hong looked at it and was dumbfounded. He didn't know what had happened at all. Why couldn't the system start?

Until now, he also understood that it must be caused by the program he had just downloaded.