In the mid-1990s, the emergence of VCD brought an audio-visual feast to the people of the whole country. At the same time, computers began to exert their strength in the private market.

In 1997, a software called "Super Decoding" was put into the market, which built a bridge between VCD, DVD and computer platforms, and solved the dilemma of computer users who were unable to use CD-ROM to play VCD and DVD discs. Once the software was launched, it won wide acclaim. praise.

In 1998, "Jianghu" went online, with more than 10,000 registered users in just two months, more than 1,000 people online every day, and the server was fully loaded for a long time.

In August of the same year, Beiwei Technology was established in Zhujiang Road, Jinling City.

In 1999, "Jianghu" received capital injection from BBZ Group, the number of servers increased rapidly, the network covered the whole country, the number of registered users exceeded 500,000, and the highest number of simultaneous online users exceeded 30,000.

In 2000, Beiwei Technology acquired the instant messaging business of Xunteng Technology for 1 million yuan, and opened up the data channel with the server of "Jianghu" to establish the first cross-platform social network.

At the end of 2001, Tribal Online integrated into the instant messaging module went online and began to be promoted in domestic colleges and universities. Its personalized algorithm, interest association, and social mode with schools and departments as groups quickly became popular among college students and netizens. By the spring of 2002, the short In just three months, the number of active users has exceeded 600,000, and an average of one out of seven Internet users logs in to Tribal.com at least once a day.

In the winter of 2002, "Jianghu"-Penguin-Tribe.com's data was fully connected, and Bubu.com launched a circle of friends module, which provided photo uploading and display functions. Penguin was under pressure, and a large-scale migration of user groups occurred.

In 2003, Bubu.com had more than three million daily active users, making it the NO.1 social networking site on the Chinese Internet.

In the summer of the same year, Bubu.com was listed on NASDAQ in the United States and quickly occupied the overseas social media market.

The information on the big screen kept scrolling, and the young students sitting under the small auditorium kept whispering, whispering about more detailed and fragmented information about the Tribal Network.

In the latter place, reporters and photographers from major media outlets in East China are "ready for battle", because the guy who just appeared in "Time Magazine" with the evaluation of "the world's most influential person" is a busy man. Send him The person in charge of Jinling University invited did not expect that he would agree to come here as a guest.

A female teacher in a brown trench coat walked to the podium, and the auditorium fell silent.

"Students, today we are honored to have Mr. Zhang Kai, the founder and CEO of Bubu.com, come to Jinling University as a guest. Everyone applauds and welcomes you."

Wow~

There was a round of applause from the audience.

Unlike the applause given to those bureaucrats in the past, the students below have sincerity from the bottom of their hearts for this person, because basically everyone is using his tribal network.

The female teacher walked down with a smile on her face. About ten seconds later, a man in a suit and leather shoes came out from the backstage and came to the front of the podium. The sound of pressing the shutter of the camera was heard in the auditorium, and the flashes continued.

"Hello, students. My surname is Zhang and my name is Kai. I can open it anywhere."

Hahaha~

There was a burst of laughter from the audience, because this man who had just appeared on the cover of "Time Magazine" not long ago made his account public on Tribal.com, and wrote a commemorative article, which included "I can post anywhere. Open" this wisecrack.

"At the back just now, President Li asked me to come on stage and say a few words to everyone. I think this is too alien, and I should just talk a few words, because I also spent my college life in this city, so, to a certain extent, You are my juniors and younger sisters."

Wow.

There was warm applause from the audience.

Lin Yue stretched out his hands and pressed down: "Actually, I said this to get close to you, allowing me to call off work early and eat the big meal promised by Principal Li, because he said that he had prepared 15-year-old Moutai for me."

There was another burst of laughter, and many single girls looked at him with bright eyes. He is attractive, humorous, and approachable. He is a young rich man who started from scratch and struggled to become worth billions. He is a proper prince charming.

Then a female reporter in a turtleneck raised her hand.

Lin Yue stretched out his right hand, motioning for her to stand up and ask questions.

The female reporter said: "Mr. Zhang, I would like to ask under what circumstances did you want to build a social networking site like Tribal.com. You must know that before 2002, you already had two social products, Jianghu and Penguin. And the latter’s user growth rate is very fast.”

Lin Yue glanced at someone in the auditorium and said: "Actually, I had this idea as early as the millennium. I think some of my classmates have heard about my life experience. For a while, I especially wanted to know about those classmates who lost contact. I miss them very much, I was thinking, if there is such a software that allows us to know each other's recent situation, even daily life even if we are thousands of miles apart, that would be great, and the current popular real-time Communication software cannot do this kind of thing, based on the professionalism of a programmer, I began to think about the feasibility of this idea, and finally launched Tribal.com a year and a half later.”

"It's no wonder that after the launch of the Tribal Network, the initial promotional activities were carried out in major universities. So, you launched the Tribal Network to understand the situation of your classmates?"

"It can be said that." Lin Yue said with a smile: "Progress comes from needs."

"Then this classmate must be very important to you?"

Lin Yue glanced across the auditorium and paused for a moment in someone's seat: "Yes, it's very important."

The female reporter thought for a while, didn't continue to ask, thanked him and sat down.

At this time, a girl sitting in the first row raised her hand.

Lin Yue beckoned again, motioning for her to get up and ask questions.

"Senior, there are rumors circulating on the Internet that you used to study at Jingnan University of Technology, but you were expelled in your junior year. The reason announced by the school was that you violated school discipline, but the real situation is that the people in the Academic Affairs Office made a mistake. Target, in order to protect that girl who was wronged, you chose to bear all the responsibilities. Is this true?" The girl is also a talent, so she hit the snake with a stick and called him senior.

Lin Yue nodded: "It's true."

The girl asked again: "Can I ask about your relationship with that girl?"

Girls always look forward to love. A young, outstanding, successful, and rich man, if he has a fascinating life story, is simply the dream lover of all women.

The female reporter didn't have the nerve to ask this question. Although she really wanted to know, her professional ethics told her not to gossip like this. However, what she didn't expect was that the girl in the front row asked her the question she had suppressed.

This is also a question in the hearts of many students present, because the answers given by the parties are more convincing than random guesses and rumors circulating on the Internet.

"Is my relationship with that girl?" Lin Yue smiled at her, and suddenly turned to look at a female audience wearing a long sweater in the third row: "You can ask her this question."

Wow~

The audience was in an uproar.

No one thought that there would be such a dramatic change. They thought he was the only one in the small auditorium, but who knew that all the male and female protagonists in the story were there.

People looked at the female audience who was holding coffee and listening to him quietly.

She was not timid or shy because of everyone's amazed eyes. She looked up at the girl who asked the question, and there was a smile in her eyes that could warm the whole winter.

...

In the afternoon, on a bench on the edge of the playground of Jinling University.

Ruan Guan unzipped the handbag, and took out the pair of gloves that Zheng Wei complained about.

"A year ago, when Zheng Wei left Jinling, he said that I might not be able to give away this pair of gloves in my lifetime."

She took his hands and helped him put them on one by one.

"She was wrong."

Lin Yue looked at her profile and said, "How have you been all these years?"

Ruan Wan said, "What do you think?"

"sorry."

She shook her head and didn't pursue this issue, because it was meaningless, because she was not Zheng Wei, she was Ruan Wan.

"It's cold outside, let's go."

Lin Yue nodded, got up from the bench, she took his arm and walked towards the school gate.

"Zhang Kai, can you tell me why you left without saying goodbye four years ago?"

Thanks to the angel for the praise and reward of 100 starting coins

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