1991 Starting from the core

"In fact, the number of users logged in within 24 hours reached 500,000."

In the office, Pony faced Su Yuanshan's doubts and explained: "There are only about 100,000 people online at the same time."

"That's called the number of daily active users." Su Yuanshan exhaled and said with a smile: "That's right. Half a million people online at the same time requires at least ten times more registrations. That's five million people, one-third of the world's What about Internet users?”

In the first half of this year, the global Internet population, that is, the number of netizens, only exceeded 10 million, of which lighthouse countries accounted for 80%. According to the latest statistics, the Internet population in the lighthouse country exceeded 10 million in August, and the number worldwide exceeded 15 million.

The rapid growth in the number of Internet users means the future of the Internet market. Capital with a keen sense of smell has begun to exert its efforts. It is like crazy. As long as you are a programmer and say you want to build a website or start a project, someone will immediately ask you if you want it. invest.

The same is true for Xinghai Venture Capital...it even started angel investment in Internet-related companies last year.

"But I feel it's pretty fast." Pony personally brought coffee to Su Yuanshan and Zhou Xiaohui, and said with a smile: "The number of registered people has exceeded one million now, but there should be repeated registrations."

The popularity of EM finally made him feel relieved - when EM was launched, because of the server forwarding data model, the cost of setting up the server was astronomical.

Moreover, when promoting EM, everyone was quite aggressive and set up servers in several countries. Therefore, the EM department became the most expensive project in the entire Internet center.

Under Su Yuanshan's subtle influence and the pursuit of the capital market, the Internet Center people have realized that these days, as long as the market is established, all investments will be meaningful - at least capital will follow this trick.

Su Yuanshan nodded: "As long as EM can persist and not go astray, it is normal and inevitable to break through one million, ten million, hundreds of millions or even more."

Pony laughed happily.

What's the advantage of following a boss like Su Yuanshan? The good thing is that - he is often more optimistic about his projects than himself! Also have confidence.

No one can find another boss like this in the world, right?

"The first-mover advantage of communication software is obvious. And once a fixed social circle is formed, it will be difficult for others to seize the market." Su Yuanshan thought for a while and then said: "Have you paid attention to the various rules in the west?"

"Attention, in the second version, we modified the relevant user agreement based on the information and precautions sent by the Xinghai Legal Department, and also made privacy reminders in many places." At this point, Pony said with emotion: " According to feedback from my colleagues in the west, foreigners are really too strong in terms of privacy and legal awareness. In contrast, we here..."

Pony said and closed his mouth, just smiling and shaking his head.

Su Yuanshan chuckled: "Although I hate talking about things with different national conditions, it is indeed there and it is a fact."

"Hmm... By the way, let's take a look at our next plan." Pony said, handing the two documents to Su Yuanshan and Zhou Xiaohui: "We can't say which aspect to prioritize next."

Su Yuanshan took the document and found that it was the project plan for EM.

The project currently in progress is a group chat project, which shows that the completion rate has reached 90%, and an internal beta version will be launched soon. The next projects are "Friend Recommendation", "Advertising Display" and "Instant Translation", followed by more wild imaginations, such as launching casual games such as Tetris, opening a hierarchy, and even Others are thinking about launching virtual currencies.

"Now there are advertisers who have directly contacted us and want to take the opportunity to promote their brands." Pony said with a smile: "They are interested in the title at the top of our chat dialog box."

Su Yuanshan couldn't help laughing: "What a beautiful idea!"

The title above the chat dialog box is EM's logo and slogan - Make communication simple.

"The one I want to give is also for Yuanxin..." Zhou Xiaohui interrupted at this time. She pointed at the document and said: "I think real-time translation is good. What does friend recommendation mean? And... why not do it at the same time?"

"Because we can't do it all at the same time." Su Yuanshan put down the documents and replied: "These are all big projects."

Zhou Xiaohui looked at Pony.

Pony nodded and said: "Let's not talk about real-time translation. When this was first proposed, it was just to reflect our pursuit of barrier-free and easy communication, so that people all over the world can communicate together no matter what language they speak. But let's think about it carefully later. Only then did I realize that the water here was too deep... It would not have been possible without an international team of ten or eight years and hundreds of people."

Zhou Xiaohui said in confusion: "Then friend recommendation should be simpler, right?"

"This is relatively simple, but recommending friends requires data analysis and algorithms. Once these are added, the current server cannot withstand it."

"In comparison, the simplest thing is advertising. Add a link entrance and jump out of the web page directly after clicking."

Su Yuanshan pondered for a moment, took another sip of coffee, and then slowly said: "The advertising function can be used, but no online advertising. You can put a link to the EM homepage."

“As for recommendation functions, translation functions, and even mini-game functions, they can all be added in the future.”

"But one thing we must pay attention to is that the appearance of any function needs to take into account the actual usage of the user." Su Yuanshan raised his head and said cautiously: "Don't make it too bloated and lose its chat function. the essence of.”

"Well, we are paying attention." Pony said and pointed to a computer in the corner of the office and smiled: "This is a 486 from four years ago. Every new version will be tested on it as soon as it comes out to ensure smooth operation. EM and office software are standard.”

"That's good." Su Yuanshan put down the document and said with a smile: "I really don't have any suggestions. The translation function can be moved later. After all, we still focus on social functions in the same language. As for the recommendation function... this is okay."

"Actually, I think mini games can be made." Zhou Xiaohui's eyes lit up when she looked at the Tetris below: "This can turn EM into a game platform."

"Take your time...you can't eat a fat man in one bite." Su Yuanshan chuckled: "Our biggest problem now is not that we didn't expect it, but that we thought of it and the computer can't keep up."

"The main reason is that the CPU and memory cannot keep up." Pony joked: "It is estimated that we will have to wait until our Sol architecture is released to save the software industry."

"Haha, Sol's construction is almost done."

Su Yuanshan couldn't help but feel a little relieved when he thought about Cyrix's progress.

I just received the information yesterday that Cyrix has already sent it to tape-out.

So, Intel’s first-generation Pentium Thunder should be about to explode, right?