Rebirth of the Wild Age

After the meeting of the Taurus Club ended, Song Weiyang immediately rushed back to Shenghai, stayed at home with his wife and children for a few days, and then ushered in the "First China Internet Conference".

The boss of the Ministry of Information Industry attended and delivered a speech in person. Academician Zhou of the China Association for Science and Technology delivered a congratulatory speech at the conference. In addition, leaders from various departments from the central government to the local government attended the conference. Almost all Internet-related companies in the country sent representatives to participate, and many practitioners from Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea were also invited. More than 1,000 people participated in the entire conference.

Sohu, Netease, Sina, Sogou, Tencent, Lianzhong, Jinshan, Alibaba...the presidents or CEOs of these companies have all come, and even Zhu Weilian, as the president of Excalibur Networks, currently only has one online game product "Legend". Invited to participate in the conference and several sub-venue forums.

Song Weiyang has been officially promoted from the executive director of the "Internet Society of China" to the vice chairman this year (there are more than 20 vice directors in total). He will speak both at the China Internet Conference and at the next member meeting of the Internet Society of China. There is no way, the richest man in China, and the richest man who has invested in many Internet companies, it is unreasonable not to invite him to participate in this kind of occasion.

On the eve of the opening of the meeting, Song Weiyang was specially summoned by the boss. The two sides chatted about the future prospects of the Internet, and also talked about the shortcomings of the current Chinese Internet industry. They did not mention the key contradiction between each other (PHS) .

On the day of the meeting, the leaders gave speeches throughout the morning, but the people in the audience not only did not doze off, but listened carefully, for fear of missing any key words.

Because the leaders, in addition to clichés, also elaborated on China's Internet development policies, e-government, urban informatization, broadband technology and construction, network and information security, and other important contents. The amount of information in the speech is huge, and some things that were legal before may not be legal after the conference; there are also e-government and urban informatization, although they are just things in the general direction, but they represent the development layout of the country in the network field , contains unlimited business opportunities.

The lunch meeting was a semi-buffet. Song Weiyang had just taken a meal and sat down. His table was quickly filled up, and even some leaders took the initiative to sit down and chat.

After a meal, they could rest for 30 minutes. Song Weiyang entered a lounge, and Ma Xiaoyun, Xiao Ma, Zhang Chaoyang, Ding Ming, Lei Jun, Ding Sanshi, Zhu William and others came in one after another. Although everyone knew each other before, but at this time, with Song Weiyang as the central link, they got together to chat and fart. Just like Brother Xiao Ma, he, Lei Jun and Ding Sanshi are old friends, but in recent years they have rarely contacted each other, and they have almost become passers-by.

While chatting, Ding Sanshi began to vomit bitterness: "If I become an agent of Korean online games in the future, I will jump off the upstairs of the (Shenghai International) Convention Center!"

"Isn't your "Elf" very popular?" Little Ma asked puzzled.

"I'm so angry," Ding Sanshi said, "Korean companies are all bastards, they have been procrastinating on solving bugs, and they refused to give me the source code to solve it myself!"

Rebs suddenly joked: "This is our fault, we shouldn't have developed "King Mountain Ranger."

"What's the situation?" Ma Xiaoyun knew nothing about online games.

Rebs explained: "Lao Ding is an agent of a Korean online game called "Elf", and he can actually change the data through "Golden Mountain Ranger". .”

Zhang Chaoyang was surprised: "Is there such a thing? Are Koreans mentally ill?"

Half a year ago, Netease was making slow progress in redoing "A Chinese Journey to the West", and was so jealous by "Legend", so it became an agent of a 3D online game called "Elf". This online game is not only fun to play, but also the first non-turn-based 3D graphics online game in China, which instantly attracted the attention of countless players.

During the beta period of "Spirit" the server was full. Even though the fees were extremely expensive later (point cards are more expensive than "Legend" and monthly cards are not sold), the number of people online at the same time was as high as 100,000. If the follow-up works properly, "Elf" can keep pace with "Legend", even if it cannot surpass "Legend".

At this time, a plug-in appeared, and it was a ready-made plug-in Jinshan Ranger.

A certain player tried to modify the data of the 3D online game "Elf" with the software specially used for modifying stand-alone games released by Jinshan Company a few years ago, and the modification was amazingly successful!

However, the source code of the game is in the hands of the Korean company, and Ding Sanshi is unable to fix the bug at all. The Korean side has been dragging on for almost a month, and has not resolved this difficult problem. Ding Sanshi could only resort to ruthless tactics, and within two months, nearly 100,000 accounts were banned or downgraded to the initial level. The incident became known all over the country, and under the pressure of huge public opinion, Netease forced these players to write a letter of repentance, and only then did they restore their accounts to normal.

The agent of "Elf" in Europe was terrified, and directly banned the IP login in mainland China, for fear of making the European server also a mess.

Jinshan Ranger mighty!

In another time and space, the Korean side procrastinated to fix this bug, and soon a new catastrophic bug appeared: players only need to throw the equipment on the ground, and then unplug the network cable in an instant, and the equipment can be copied when entering the game again .

This bug caused the top-level equipment in the game to fly all over the sky, but at that time they encountered SARS, and the Korean guy couldn't solve it, which made Ding Sanshi want to die.

This year, Ogilvy Electronics was also cheated. Ogilvy represented a Korean online game called "Peacock King", which was scheduled to be tested at 7 o'clock in the morning. But at 6 o'clock, one hour before the public beta, the Korean party suddenly brought a new version, and it was very different from the old version... Ogilvy Electronics gritted its teeth and opened the new version, but encountered a series of bugs. , The Korean company has been delaying to do follow-up updates.

Of course, no matter how badly he was tricked by the Korean guys, Ding Sanshi's mood is still much better than last year, because the world's Internet winter has passed.

Nasdaq has been recovering since September, and major Internet stocks have bottomed out continuously and slightly. Now, the stock prices of Netease, Sohu and Sina are all steadily increasing. Among them, Netease's stock price rose the fastest, and the increase was very eye-catching in the entire Nasdaq. This must also be due to "Elf". Give investors great confidence.

"Boom boom boom!"

Shen Si immediately got up to open the door, saw a foreigner standing outside, and immediately said in English: "Hello, who are you looking for?"

The foreigner smiled and said, "I'm Zhang Chaoyang's teacher. We were supposed to come here together, but I have something to delay."

"Come in!" Shen Si said hastily.

As soon as the foreigner appeared, everyone in the room stood up and shook hands enthusiastically.

Negroponte, recognized in the West as "the most influential master in the field of computer and communication technology". When he met Zhang Chaoyang, Zhang Chaoyang knew nothing about the Internet. The first seed investment Sohu received in history was also paid for by Negroponte himself.

This old man has been to China several times, and one of them was even specially received by a big leader. Everyone who works on the Internet in China knows him.

All along, Zhang Chaoyang claimed to be the direct disciple of Negroponte, and now he introduced everyone with a smile, as if he had become the owner of this lounge.

Surprisingly, Negroponte looked at Ding Ming differently: "You are the creator of Sogou's encyclopedia plan?"

"Strictly speaking, I'm just an executor," Ding Ming said very modestly. "The Internet encyclopedia project was proposed by Mr. Song Weiyang."

"I see," Negroponte said with a smile, "Sogou Encyclopedia in the East and Wikipedia in the West are both a great revolution in the history of Internet communication. I have been studying Wikipedia all this time, although there are still some problem, but it is undeniable that it will change people’s lives. By the way, Wikipedia is non-profit, how does Sogou Baike operate?”

Ding Ming replied: "Sogou Encyclopedia provides advertising space on the right, but it is temporarily unable to achieve a balance of payments. I estimate that it will operate at a loss for a long time in the future."

"It is best to make a non-profit website and rely on donations to maintain operations," Negroponte said, "This will not only maintain the fairness of the encyclopedia information, but also allow Sogou Encyclopedia to go further. After all, a private company cannot afford Projects of a public interest."

"I will think about it carefully." Ding Ming said perfunctorily.

This old man obviously doesn't understand the situation in China. If Sogou Encyclopedia relies on online donations to solve the funding problem, it will be able to announce the closure of the website next month.

But no one dares to underestimate Negroponte. He is the god in the eyes of Chinese Internet entrepreneurs. Ding Sanshi rushed to ask: "Sir, what do you think is the biggest business opportunity of China's Internet in the future?"

"Wireless broadband and p2p technology, in the final analysis, is p2p technology," Negroponte said without hesitation, "p2p can make the unlocked files and data stored on the computer linked to the theory of the Internet. Not far away, it can make people's lives drastically changed."

Brother Xiao Ma was originally a technical expert, and instantly understood: "I am doing instant messaging on the Internet. The product name is qq, which is similar to icq in the West. If it comes to the expansion of p2p, in the future, qq users will not only be able to communicate with each other Text and picture information, and all data files such as audio and video can be transferred to each other.”

It's not just QQ, the future Xunlei, eMule, Kugou Music, and the expanded application of the technology launched by Tencent. Even the popular blockchain, Bitcoin, etc., its basic technology is p2p.

Negroponte also said: "Wireless technology and p2p are mutually promoting. I think that in terms of communication technology, the most sensible choice for China is to skip 3G, promote the development and application of wifi technology, and directly enter the 4G era. Think about it. It's all exciting, wifi, 4g, a crazy digital age!"

Song Weiyang, who was originally absent-minded, suddenly opened his eyes wide when he heard this, and he really wanted to ask, "Are you also a time traveler?"

Ma Xiaoyun was confused, and secretly asked Ding Sanshi: "What is wifi?"

Ding Sanshi said: "You can understand it as a wireless networking technology. This theory was proposed about five or six years ago. However, due to technical limitations, it was not put into practical use until two years ago. The development speed in the past two years has been extremely fast."

Song Weiyang had to admit that a great god is a great god, and his name is definitely not in vain.

Just a casual word from someone has already revealed unlimited business opportunities, it just depends on whether you can understand the true meaning.

Negroponte asked Song Weiyang: "Mr. Song, I will be the first to speak this afternoon, and you will be the second. What topic do you plan to speak on?"

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "The concept of web2.0."

"It's interesting. Did you create the concept yourself?" Negroponte said.

"Probably." Song Weiyang said.

(What Negroponte said in this chapter is not made up by Lao Wang, but what he said in an interview with Sina in 2004. Including China should skip 3G and go directly to 4G, and should vigorously develop and use p2p and wifi technologies...)