Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

{Time: April 1, 2004}

{Location: Flower Planting-Special Zone}

Because of the memories of Yuzhang Academy being torn out, and the past of Wu Yujun’s first addition, the energy of these seniors in the dark affected the [Panda Film], which was still gaining momentum. Everyone’s expressions were solemn when they left the rooftop.

But Ning Zimo believes that even without the trivial things he rambles about, Wu Yujun and Yan Yufeng will still take [Panda Pictures] on the right path. It’s just that these trivial things around them have left a mark on their hearts. Watch them leave

He looked like he was holding his breath. In the future, [Panda Pictures] will definitely have explosive growth.

Because of the memory of Yuzhang Academy and the story of Wu Yujun, [Panda Pictures] has taken on new responsibilities.

And this responsibility will definitely make [Panda Pictures] stronger!

Looking at the figures gradually disappearing in the aisle, Zhang Xiaolong stared for a long time before looking away.

He turned around and glanced at Ning Zimo, who was in a calm mood, and then said with a smile, "Okay, Master, you, who have always been gentle and elegant, not only started swearing, but you also started telling people stories."

"Hey, you can see this?" Ning Zimo didn't refute, and laughed softly along with him, "But I'm not a gentle person, so don't give me random labels."

It wasn't until Ning Zimo laughed out loud that he realized that Zhang Xiaolong was still immersed in the emotion just now.

After a long while, Zhang Xiaolong said quietly, "I thought it would be difficult for our software industry to survive in China. I didn't expect practitioners in the animation industry to have a more difficult time than us."

"There is no way, the dual influence of the market and practitioners will definitely create the current situation." Ning Zimo curled his lips and said, "This is why I wanted to develop the Internet industry but started from abroad, and also chose

This is an important reason for other industries to provide financial support. At this time in China, there is no market that can allow our private enterprises to become large enterprises."

Different from the bat that was fumbling for development in his previous life, Ning Zimo planned a big territory from the beginning after his rebirth, so naturally he couldn't waste any time.

He knows his shortcomings and his strengths. Fortunately, so far, Ning Zimo feels that he has been on the right path.

Even so, Ning Zimo has been developing in a low profile before, trying not to give others the opportunity to pay attention to him. But this low profile will no longer exist after the sale of Skype. But now Emperor Penguin is still a small business, it is necessary

The low profile should still be maintained.

Ning Zimo lit up the cigarette handed to him by Zhang Xiaolong, raised his chin and asked, "How's it going? Are we all ready?"

Zhang Xiaolong, who usually had a calm expression, was now filled with uncontrollable excitement. He nodded affirmatively and said solemnly, "Get ready. After 0:05 US time, all the updates and news we have prepared will be released."

"Okay, the curtain has risen. If you don't accept it, go ahead!" Ning Zimo smiled and said, "It's time to get your gmail team excited!"

"It's just updates and cooperation. Boss, you're not so excited, are you?"

Zhang Xiaolong felt a little baffled by Ning Zimo's sudden excitement. Although this was the biggest update of gmail in the 16 months since it was launched, he felt that this did not make Ning Zimo so excited.

Ning Zimo glanced at him, looked at his doubts and just smiled without saying a word.

How could Zhang Xiaolong know that the version update plan he had set was for Google.

It seems to be a simple one-step upgrade of Gmail, but it is a fatal blow to the budding Google Mail!

***+***

Even though it's almost midnight at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, the lights are still brightly lit. People working at their desks are typing away on their keyboards, seemingly unaware that the outside world has gone dark.

Two figures suddenly appeared in the corridor, walking towards the side where they were working at the desk. When the two people stopped, the people who were immersed in the monitor and keyboard still didn't realize that there were two more "

"outsider".

"Ralph...Ralph! How is it?" the visitor asked.

In his daze, he seemed to hear someone calling his name. It took him a while to realize that the voice was coming from beside him.

He looked up and found that the people coming were the two highest-ranking bosses at Google-Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Seeing the bloodshot eyes in Ralph's eyes, Larry Page forgave him for his slowness and asked softly, "Ralph, April Fool's Day is coming in 5 minutes. How are you guys preparing?"

Releasing the latest company news on April Fool's Day is a habit that has been gradually established within Google over the past few years. This may also become a tradition in Google's future.

At 0:00 on March 31, which is also the early morning of April 1, Google will officially launch a new service, and this service comes from Ralph's project team.

Although this service almost aborted due to the unexpected appearance of a mailbox called gmail on November 27, 2002, Ralph stubbornly insisted on using his spare time to continue this project.

Now more than a year has passed. After the project team led by Ralph withstood that period of pressure, it has even grown from the initial 6 people to 15 people, and the project has also reached the time to be officially launched. Before the launch,

Larry Page specially took Sergey Brin with him to see how the Ralph team was preparing.

"GBmail has completed all the work. We have not only further improved the refreshless technology, but also achieved the same standard as Gmail in terms of interactive experience. Coupled with the new server group prepared by the company for us, this time we will definitely

You can compete with gmail." Ralph smiled.

gbmail is the official name of the project that Ralph said he was responsible for. When it was mentioned, Ralph couldn't restrain his excitement.

gbmail is finally going online. After more than a year of dormancy, the gbmail project team has not only withstood the pressure, but also attracted more colleagues to join in, expanding the team from 6 to 15 people, which has greatly improved its technical strength.

.

In the past year or so, the new blood has allowed new ideas to be constantly bumped up and applied to gbmail. This makes gbmail somewhat more confident when facing gmai after being greatly improved.

The gbmail project has also received support from the company's senior leaders, led by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, during several internal rounds in the past few months. Especially the last test in mid-February this year, before gbmail was launched.

The penultimate version won a lot of applause, and one day later the senior management decided to officially purchase 5 high-quality servers for gbmail.

That is not the old Pentium III host that was originally planned to be the gbmail server, but five new IBM high-end blade servers. The addition of these groups of servers will definitely make gbmail even more powerful.

Since then, Ralph has become more confident that he can seize part of the email market after Gmail.

Moreover, they have already thoroughly studied Gmail's invitation system.

"Although our gbmail also adopts an invitation system, our 3GB mailbox capacity and 300m attachment capacity have been greatly improved. This 30% increase will obviously make our gbmail more attractive than gmail, and will also make users

The 'unique' experience is stronger..."

Larry Page saw that the normally dull Ralph was showing signs of chattering, so he glanced at his old friend Sergey.

They all know that the gbmail project team has been holding back for too long, and when it comes time to actually launch it, they will inevitably be unable to contain their excitement.

But Ralph's excitement tended to get more and more intense. Larry quickly reached out and patted his arm, "Man, since we are ready, let's wait for the performance of gbmail after it goes online. We are related to the 'mailbox'

The keywords have been adjusted today. After 0:00, there will be a lot of traffic directed to gbmail. Let’s wait for gbmail to give us a big surprise.”

When Larry patted his arm, Ralph realized that he was a little too excited.

He scratched his head and smiled, "...Okay... Guys, let's get ready to start."

Ralph stood up and clapped his hands continuously, and the 11 partners around him became more energetic when they saw this.

"Okay,"

"Move!"

Excitement filled the gbmail project team. Larry and Sergey watched them busy typing on the keyboard with shining eyes.

"The domain name... is no problem."

"Procedure...no problem."

"The server responded normally."

"Ready to begin!"

With the 0:00 bell, the gbmail domain name was refreshed for the first time on the hour.

Through Ralph's monitor, Larry Page saw the gbmail welcome page appear on Ralph's browser.

The eye-catching red gbmail logo is on the left side of the page, the lower left page is a brief description, and the right side is a minimalist login box. In addition to the account and password input box, there is also a login and registration button.

The biggest difference between this gbmail homepage and the gmail welcome page displayed on Ralph's other monitor is that the appearance of the registration button will mean that gbmail no longer uses gmail's old hunger marketing invitation system, but

It uses open registration.

Ralph clicked on the registration button and filled in his account and password, and the page was quickly redirected to the official gbmail email page.

This is an introductory version of gbmail that was recognized by the entire company in the penultimate round. Although it is not much different from gmail. But relying on the refreshless technology they learned from gmail and upgraded, their gbmail will definitely

Can get a better user experience than gmail.

Coupled with the open registration method, gbmail will gain more users than gmail in the short term. Although the 3G mailbox capacity is a big burden, no one says that 5 IBM blade servers are the end of gbmail.

Because they have made plans early on, if gbmail develops rapidly, they will continue to add servers to gbmail.

Besides, is it necessary to provide users with 3G capacity when registering a 3G mailbox? The gbmail project team spent a year to do more than just create a mailbox. They also used some new technologies to make the mailbox space more common.

Of course, these are not the key factors that make them interested in gbmail. You must know that after the emergence of gmail, they will still support Ralph to continue to strengthen the research and development of mailboxes. This is because they, Google, have gradually begun to develop their mailboxes in the past year.

, I came to a new conclusion by continuing to pay attention to gmail.

Mail,

is important,

Internet account cluster.

Gbmail can be used as an email address, and at the same time it functions as an account cluster. This account cluster is not only applicable to any internal projects of Google, but can even be authorized to be called by external websites. If many users use gbmail mailboxes, it will make users pay attention to the Google brand through gbmail.

There is awareness and usage stickiness.

Although gbmail can only be used for the advertising system and gbmail mailbox system for the time being, it is already ahead of gmail.

By the time gmail realizes the problem, how can they compete with gbmail as their only email system?

"Emmmm, Larry! Sergey! Ralph! Come and see, something very important has happened. Gmail has been updated!"

The sudden exclamation in the office brought Larry Page back to his senses. He looked curiously at the sound and found that it was a member of the gbmail project team pointing at the monitor and greeting them. With an anxious expression on his face, it was obvious that he had encountered

What a tricky thing.

Larry Page is curious,

What is a big deal about updating gmail?

But seeing the serious expression on the man's face, Larry woke up and went to take a look.

Sergey also followed curiously. When they reached the man and only glanced at the monitor, they were stunned.

Gmail has been updated!

And it's a big update.

Although it was just a few short pieces of content, Larry Page decided that his mood had hit rock bottom!

***+***

At 15:08, Ning Zimo shook the coffee in his hand while looking at Chen Li's monitor.

At this time, he actually wanted to see how the Google legend would react when faced with the wall of sighs he had prepared in advance.

But he quickly gave up that idea,

Because the wall prepared for Google is not limited to gmail update?