Who is Huo Ju?
"Tianjin people are said to be the descendants of Huo Yuanjia, who are good at nunchakus." On Zhihu, Fan Kai, CTO of Dingxiangyuan, replied.
"All stories about the future are fallacies and heresies before they are realized." This is Huo Ju's introduction to his personal official account.
"Back to the 2006." Huo Ju's introduction on Twitter.
Huo Ju has multiple identities, labels, and experiences. He is not only the author of the WeChat public account "Heretics", but also a long-time friend of Li Xiaolai, Feng Dahui, He Caitou and others. He once fought with Luo Yonghao in the air, fought a "1 yuan lawsuit" with bad reviews, received complaints from Baidu, and Sina Weibo made him "cold all over".
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Huo Juqi
Looking through Huo Ju's resume, there is a thick stack of introductions: In 2005, he worked together on 365kit.com initiated by Liu Ren, in 2008 he founded Ginkgo Technology Consulting Company, and in late 2010 he joined Shanda Group as a senior researcher at Shanda Innovation Institute.
Talking about his past experience, Huo Ju said, "I still think that people of our age cannot change or influence their peers. It would be too much to use one's own experience to help people who are a few years younger than oneself. Conceited. Many people born in the 80s or even 90s have done better than us, which is the result of changes in the times and the way information is disseminated. They have their own paths.”
Huo Ju was born at the end of 1979, to be exact, he was born in the 1980s. In 1986, Huo Ju, a second-grade elementary school student, came into contact with computers for the first time.
This is the first batch of primary schools in Tianjin to offer computer courses. Two years ago, Deng Xiaoping said in the Shanghai Exhibition Hall that "the popularization of computers should start from babies", and a wave of computers quickly spread to Tianjin.
The small faces of these "lucky ones" stared at the behemoth in front of them, and the whole room was filled with curiosity and a special smell that was baked by the heat of the chips on the plastic shell.
This smell is the smell of computer in Huo Ju's memory.
"Looking at it today, it can't be regarded as a computer at all. The Laser310 uses the Z80 chip and has no operating system. Only the basic in the rom can be used for programming." Huo Ju recalled.
Later, his parents bought Huo Ju a Chinese learning machine, a cloned version of the Apple II, using a 6502 CPU. In short, "something that has absolutely nothing to do with test scores."
In sixth grade, he wrote a screen scrolling engine in 6502 assembly for writing games.
When Huo Ju was in his third year of high school, Tianjin obtained the first C-level commercial node from Beijing. Tianjin University and Nankai University connected to the Peking University Education Network with a bandwidth of 9.6K, becoming the first batch of cities outside Beijing to enjoy the Internet.
"The Internet is here, and this is the biggest turning point in my life." Huo Ju said. Since then, no matter people's work and knowledge structure, or the method of obtaining information, or the relationship between people, they have all changed.
Later, Huo Ju’s experience has become known to everyone, which is summarized in the sentence at the beginning of this paragraph. Currently, Huo Ju lives in Canada and works as the CTO of the digital content trading and distribution network Press.one. At the same time, he is in charge of product strategy. His wife Xi Qiao is in charge UX and web product prototypes.
Many voices in the early Internet world said that Huo Ju had talent, but in his opinion, "the only thing that can be called talent in human beings is curiosity."
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the internet is dead
"The Internet is dead, already."
In August 2017, Huo Ju published the above-mentioned article on his personal public account "Heretics", "This is almost a global trend, and the Internet services that people use are becoming more and more concentrated." Americans are Google, Facebook , Amazon, Instagram, the Chinese are the BAT series, WeChat, Tmall and Meituan.
All changes are moving in a more centralized direction, with more and more power for enterprises and less and less power for users.
Huo Ju took game console cassettes as an example. In the traditional world, when a user buys a cassette, he becomes sacrosanct private property. However, in the digital age, even though the user spends money, he cannot own these products, and his account is blocked. The withdrawal of copyright by the copyright owner is the reason for the disappearance of these products.
The same goes for data. "A more intuitive example: Can you easily back up your circle of friends?" Huo Ju wrote that the circle of friends was originally created by yourself, but in the end you have no control over it. The absurdity of the times.
Huo Ju spared no effort to stand on the front line of anti-centralization and anti-monopoly of large companies.
June 9, 2011, becauseSina suspected plagiarism incident, Huo Ju announced that "I will stop using Sina Weibo indefinitely, the reason: Sina Weibo makes me feel cold".
On March 15, 2016, International Consumer Rights Day, Huo Ju received a complaint from Baidu because of an article he wrote"Talking about Baidu again: KPI, drones, and a case that must be shown to parents", pointing directly at Baidu's false advertising problem. 1 month later,Wei Zexi incidentbreak out.
He called Facebook an "Evil Empire," and Zuckerberg was the one who created the Evil Empire because "Facebook stole too much user data."
On the other hand, the fact that WeChat in China is getting bigger and bigger is actually the same as Facebook's dominance in the United States.
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Looking for the Son of the Internet
the interviewthe interviewAt that time, a list of programmers promoting freedom of information was listed, including Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin, Vitalik Buterin, the inventor of Ethereum, and Phil Zimmermann, the inventor of email encryption software (Pretty Good Privacy).
Two years later, Huo Ju and Jade, the founder of the public account "Zen and the Art of Universe Maintenance" re-establishedtalk aboutAaron Swarts。
"He is a person who inherits the previous generation and the next generation. He should be the person who inherits the ideas of the Internet creators and uses them to transform the world." Huo Ju said.
Aaron Swarts, an American genius programmer and Internet hacker, came into contact with computers at the age of two or three, created a website similar to Wikepedia at the age of 12; participated in the creation of the RSS 1.0 specification at the age of 14; at the age of 19, he earned hundreds of dollars by selling the social news website Reddit he participated in creating. The 24-year-old was accused of illegally downloading a large number of academic journal articles from JSTOR (Journal Storage, an online system for storing academic journals), and was prosecuted by the federal government, facing a million-dollar fine and up to 35 years in prison; 26 years old in Brooklyn, New York Suicide. Aaron Swarts has thus been likened to Prometheus who was punished by Zeus for stealing fire.
"Information Sharing, Freedom of Speech" is a maxim that Aaron Swarts believes deeply in. In the last few years of his life, he devoted himself to the opening of network information. He was convicted for sneaking into the computer room of MIT and downloaded 4.8 million papers from JSTOR, and finally fell.
The 2014 documentary "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz," a tribute to the life of Aaron Swarts, is freely available online for download.
In fact, Huo Ju has many similarities with Aaron Swarts. They are the first batch of people who came into contact with computers in the 1980s. 33 years ago, when Huo Ju first came into contact with computers in the computer room of a primary school in Tianjin, Aaron Swarts might have just been born; in 1998, Huo Ju was between taking the college entrance examination or trying to start an Internet business like some netizens he met on Fido At the time of the decision, Aaron Swarts was obsessed with his new love, the original iMac, and believed that "programming is magical, and it can be used to do things that ordinary people can't do" (from his brother Ben Swartz).
They are all familiar with RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary), a program-friendly decentralized information subscription method, and one of the original intentions of RSS development is to make it easier for people to publish their own works.
"RSS is taking the path of the real Internet continuation. It is the same as the problem of decentralization, that is, 'there are certain requirements for users'." Huo Ju said.
The most important thing is that they are all natives of the Internet, and they all have ideals of "decentralization" and equality.
"The earliest Internet was all decentralized. People first determined the agreement, and everyone realized it independently." Huo Ju said. Aaron Swarts makes a statement with action.
"His (Aaron Swarts)'s most basic proposition is Internet freedom and intellectual equality." Huo Ju said.
In 2015, during the Obama administration, the US Federal Communications Commission introduced the principle of net neutrality (Net Neutrality), which requires all network service providers to ensure that all users can use the network without restrictions at any time, place and terminal. , to achieve an equal network society.
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The first people to spread bitcoin
The perception of Huo Ju in the blockchain world may be "the first batch of people in the Chinese community to spread Bitcoin".
On May 23, 2011, Huo Ju wrote an article titled "Views on Several Issues Regarding Bitcoin". He wrote: "This project is very interesting, or very cool, and unprecedented. My attitude towards bitcoin is very strong. Support and hope it succeeds. I'm willing to accept bitcoin payment for my software or something."
At that time, it was popular among bloggers to give bitcoins to each other. Huo Ju once gave bitcoins to colleagues at the Shanda Innovation Institute where he worked at the time, but "many people even refused to accept it in a wallet."
Later, Huo Ju invested in Roasted Cat’s mining machine with Bitcoin. After Roasted Cat disappeared, Huo Ju withdrew from the Bitcoin world.
On the other hand, one of his friends, Li Xiaolai, became the "Bitcoin richest man" because he hoarded a large amount of bitcoins at low prices in the early days. Li Xiaolai once claimed to own 6-figure bitcoins.
Huo Ju came into contact with Bitcoin again in March last year. Li Xiaolai invited Huo Ju and his wife Xi Qiao to do Press.one together. "This was something we discussed before the emergence of Bitcoin, but the previous conditions were difficult to achieve. With the development of the blockchain today, it has a basis for realization." Huo Ju said.
This project was conceived and proposed by Li Xiaolai and served as CEO, Huo Ju and Xi Qiao served as CTO and COO respectively.
According to the Press.one white paper, this is a distributed digital content transaction and distribution network. Its vision is to create "a blockchain-based content distribution protocol where people can create a variety of content-based decentralized applications. , such as forums, blogs, wikis, microblogs, live video broadcasts, etc."
Huo Ju's current focus is on this project, and the update frequency of "Heretics" is much less. The title of the latest article is "Don't make trouble, buying pictures is not expensive at all, but the premise is...", it is about visual China.
However, every article written by Huo Jufa will be uploaded to Press.one, and the rights of each article will be confirmed on it, stamped with a time stamp, and form a digital signature, thus proving that "what is mine is mine".
Proving that "what's mine is mine" is reminiscent of Huo Ju's 2016 lawsuit of "claiming 1 yuan". One of Huo Ju's original articles was washed by the public account "Bad Review". On the day of the trial, Huo Ju was far away in Canada. Several of his friends came to watch the trial and told him about the trial process.
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