New Year's Day, 2002.
Chen Yu and his employees woke up early and started working before it was time to go to work.
"Good morning, Boss Chen."
"Morning."
"Have you had breakfast?"
"Yes, I'm eating now."
"Slow down, it's fine. There's still half an hour before work starts."
Chen Yu greeted everyone and entered the office.
Then, he called Zhang Jianming, Li Nan, Xie Zhang, and Wang Chang over.
"How is it? How's the preparation?"
"Don't worry, Boss Chen. Everything will go according to plan. We'll go online at 12."
"How's the download going?"
"I've already talked to the major guilds. There are about 100,000 downloads."
For the convenience of the netizens, YY had been released to the market a few days ago for download.
However, it would only be officially launched on New Year's Day, which was after 12.
"100,000 downloads."
This number was a little low.
However, Chen Yu did not show it.
If only looking at the number of downloads, 100,000 was indeed low.
However, if all 100,000 downloads were from internet cafes, then it was not low.
However, this could not be confirmed.
In 2002, there were about 100,000 internet cafes in the country. Although many of the major guilds cooperated with the company, it was impossible for them to contact every internet cafe and download YY. Among them, there were also many individual users.
Chen Yu did not particularly care about individual users.
What he cared about the most now was internet cafes.
Although there were only about 100,000 internet cafes in the country, if each internet cafe provided 100 computers, he could directly connect 10 million netizens to the internet. This was only the first batch because everyone knew that a computer could not only be used by one user. After this user used the computer, there would be other users.
It could be said that a computer could bring in up to 10 users within 24 hours.
On average, there would be about 4 users.
With this calculation, the number of netizens who went online through internet cafes would reach 40 million, which was about the number of netizens in the country.
Of course, this was calculated based on the fact that each internet cafe had 100 computers. In fact, many internet cafes in towns did not have 100 computers at this time. Most of them only had about 50 computers, and some even only had 20 computers. However, even if the average number was about 50 computers, the number of netizens that internet cafes could reach would reach 20 million.
It was almost equivalent to half of the current number of netizens in the country, or even more.
In other words, if he controlled the internet cafes, he would control most of the users in the country.
It was just that Chen Yu hadn't built up big data yet, so he couldn't know how many of the 100,000 downloads were from internet cafes and how many were from personal users.
"What's wrong? Is everyone unhappy?"
Seeing everyone's serious expression, Chen Yu said with a smile.
"Boss Chen, it's my fault. I was too focused on contacting the major guilds and didn't cooperate with the major websites."
Zhang Jianming was the first to take responsibility.
Chen Yu shook his head. "Our YY service hasn't even officially started yet, and you're already mistaken. It's too early. Besides, keeping a close eye on the guilds is also our main method of promotion. Although it was effective to cooperate with other websites, the effect was not great. Even if we advertise on the portal, it's actually useless. "
"The explosion of instant messaging doesn't rely on high traffic, but on the interaction between people. This is one of the important reasons why UC failed before."
Speaking of which, we have to talk about internet cafes.
In fact, in the early stages of the development of the Internet in China, everything was inseparable from Internet cafes.
Online games were the same.
Instant messaging was also the same.
Because they saw many people playing games in the internet cafes, they also played.
Because they saw others using QQ in the internet cafes, they also used QQ.
Without the internet cafes, even if the traffic suddenly increased, everyone would feel a little lonely.
Who knew whether the person on the other side of the computer was a human or a dog?
"Let me tell you a story."
Seeing that everyone was still serious, Chen Yu said, "Do you know what QQ was like when it was first launched?"
"Right, QQ wasn't called QQ at that time, it was called OICQ."
In 2000, because OICQ was too similar to ICQ in the United States, it was sued by ICQ for infringement. Later, it was renamed QQ.
"Alas, look at you. You don't know."
Chen Yu spread his hands helplessly. "Then I'll tell you directly. When QQ was launched, it was really miserable. Penguin had no money, and QQ didn't have much traffic. Ma Huateng and the others only made this program to entertain themselves. It was a headache when there was no one to play it. Since it was instant messaging, how could instant messaging be used when no one was using it? "
"Later, Ma Huateng found that women were very popular on the internet. Right, didn't we use this trick before? Ma Huateng told everyone in the company to register three, no, ten female QQ accounts. Everyone must add 100 male friends to chat with. "
"So, with the help of the transvestite, QQ attracted the first batch of members."
After this story, Zhang Jianming, Li Nan, Wang Chang … they all burst out laughing.
"Hahaha, hahaha."
"Transvestite? Is it true?"
"Of course it's true. We've used it before."
"We've used it before, but we're real beauties, not transvestites."
"But, Boss Chen, where did you hear this gossip? It's too funny."
This kind of gossip was really funny.
The solemn expressions on everyone's faces immediately eased up.
"This gossip has been around for a long time."
"Let me tell you, don't just bury yourself in work when you have nothing to do. You should read more gossip in the circle, such as about Penguin Ma Huateng, Jinshan Qiubo and Lei Jun, NetEase Ding Lei … This is good for us."
"You guys, why am I so awesome? It's because I've been listening to their gossip every day."
Of course, this was a joke.
It was just a joke, but it wasn't absolute.
This kind of gossip actually had a certain degree of truth.
Sometimes, for those entrepreneurs, it was really, really hard at the beginning.
It was so hard that you didn't even know how such a company could reach its current scale.
Just like Alibaba in the future, Ma Huateng was really a master of bragging.
He couldn't even afford to rent an office building, but even so, Alibaba still appeared in an apartment. Of course, the appearance of Alibaba didn't necessarily mean that everything would go smoothly. Just like Ma Huateng, the 18 Arhats bought and sold their own products on their own website to gain some popularity.
Just like Brother Dong in the future, when he was selling CDs, did he think of setting up Jingdong in the future?
Well, although Brother Dong was a hero, it didn't matter.
"Okay, okay, you guys do your own thing. Calm down."
After driving everyone out of the office, Chen Yu turned on his computer and clicked on the Legend of Mir.
Speaking of which, I haven't played Legend of Mir in a long time. I miss it.
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