"Grandpa, Grandma, it's me!"
Su Zhe rolled down the window and greeted them. Since they had been discovered, it was obvious that he had to shout.
But when the window rolled down, the uncles and aunties in the village were obviously even more surprised.
The driver was indeed the Su family's child.
"Oh my, Ah Zhe, you know how to drive?”
A middle-aged woman screamed.
"Whose car is this?"
"I told you, Ah Zhe, you're promising!
"Look, he's only 17 years old, but he already knows how to drive. He's much better than his father!”
"Yeah, this car is so beautiful…"
The uncles and aunties surrounded the car and started discussing. Some of them even touched and knocked on it. Su Zhe was extremely embarrassed and could only pull his third uncle out."It's my third uncle's. Isn't it the college entrance examination? It's more convenient to have a car!"
"Yes, I want it!"
"Sigh, your third uncle is a big boss now!”
"This car is quite expensive, right?"
One by one, the uncles and aunties rushed to ask. Su Zhe found it difficult to resist. He casually found an excuse and drove the car to the cement yard in front of his house under their reluctant gazes.
However, the uncles and aunties did not disperse at all. Instead, they surrounded the place and started discussing. The center of the topic was obviously the Su family.
"Phew…What a terrifying auntie and grandpa!”
Su Zhe parked the car and took out the desktop computer that he had bought for nearly ten days.
He moved to his study room and connected the phone line after assembling it. He couldn't wait to start installing the programs.
In school, because of the network problem, his laptop couldn't be installed with programs at all. Once he downloaded, it would be disconnected.
Therefore, the most he could do was browse the internet and look at stocks. To be honest, he had been suffocating for the past week.
The broken line made him feel like dying!
However, it was different at home. Although the phone bill would explode next month, it was still his home. This amount of phone bill was nothing to Su Zhe.
He had just gone to the office to inquire about the internet. In 1999, the 1M network was launched, but it would take seven days to install it.
The phone line could also connect to the Internet, but the speed of the download was not even 100k/s.
Su Zhe tested it and found that it was around 50K.
"It's better than nothing. It's better than a dormitory. At least it's stable!”
Su Zhe was downloading Penguin, Lianzhong Games, Huatai Security, and other related software. He had already typed in sina, 163, and sohu, but nothing could be loaded.
It took almost half an hour for Penguin, Lianzhong, and Huatai to install it on Su Zhe's desktop.
Su Zhe had also opened up a few websites such as Sina.com and Sohu.
These websites and programs were actually the earliest Internet companies in China.
1998 was the first year of the internet in China. It was also the beginning of the era of portals.
Now, in 1999, sina had become the number one commercial portal in China. The main direction of profit was advertising, and the daily traffic was quite amazing.
Countless young people who were surfing the Internet would log into this website almost every day to watch the daily news and entertainment.
Sohu, which was ranked second, was actually the first portal in China.
Zhang Chaoyang, who graduated from MIT in the United States, and his team had actually completed the development of the Chinese search system in April last year. He had followed the model of Yahoos and cloned a Chinese version called Sohu.
In October last year, he was even selected as one of the "Top 50 Digital Heroes in the World" by Time Magazine.
163 Netease, which was ranked last, was the most low-key one.
In fact, Ding Sanshi had come into contact with the Internet earlier than Wang Zhidong from Sina.com and Zhang Chaoyang from Sohu. However, he was in the software sales field, and 163 email was popular in the IT circle.
However, after seeing the success of Sohu and Sina.com, he immediately made a genius decision to transform Netease into a portal.
The facts proved that his strategy was quite wise.
His attitude as a newcomer gradually caught up with the first two. Then, Netease, Sina.com, and Sohu became the three giants that ruled China's Internet for the next 10 years!
"sina hasn't gone public yet. We'll have to wait until next year, but if we have the money, we can get involved…Sohu and Netease are the same!”
"But compared to Penguin, the potential of these three is too small!”
Su Zhe browsed through all three websites and focused on a small penguin avatar.
Who would have thought that such a weak software would become the largest aircraft carrier in China's business circle in the future?!
The world was truly unpredictable.
This was the reason why Su Zhe was so eager.
After his rebirth, Penguin was the company he wanted to acquire the most, and he had been working hard for it.
The familiar registration interface opened, and Su Zhe quickly registered a Penguin account!
Five digits!
63322！
"It seems that the number of users on Penguin hasn't exceeded 60,000 yet!”
Before Su Zhe was reborn, he had done the most research on Penguin Corporation. After all, he had to understand the company in depth if he wanted to acquire it.
Although Penguin was founded in 1998, the Penguin program OICQ was launched on February 10th, 1999, which was only three months ago!
In the beginning, Ma Huateng and the others had reserved 200 penguin numbers for themselves, and the number was released to the public starting from 10201.
Therefore, the number of users was actually very easy to calculate. It was the number of registered Penguin accounts, minus 10001.
Reaching nearly 60,000 users in three months was an incredible achievement. After all, even Ma Huateng himself did not expect the user growth to be so fast.
Penguin didn't advertise at all. It relied on the reputation of people passing it on.
For example, when Su Zhe downloaded Penguin, he told his classmates that the program could be used to chat online. If his classmates were interested, they would go to the internet cafe to download it.
It was a simple and crude method, but it was very effective.
In just three months, he had accumulated so much…Ma Huateng had only hoped to develop 1000 users in the first year.
This caused his server to overload every few days!
For this reason, they had to maintain the server every day, but the server could not withstand so many users, so they had to buy a few second-hand servers.
"Now, I'm afraid these second-hand servers won't be able to withstand it anymore!”
Su Zhe was very clear about Penguin Corporation's first hurdle, which was Penguin Software. It was like a hungry ghost reincarnated into a little elf. Because of the rapid growth of users, Ma Huateng did not have the money to buy a server.
In the end, his partner, Zhang Zhidong, came up with a solution. He went to Huaqiang North to buy a bunch of parts and assembled a " counterfeit phone " to help Penguin extend its life.
This was a critical juncture…Without Zhang Zhidong, perhaps Penguin would have been finished.
"September…"
Su Zhe felt that it was still too late.
"Whatever. After the college entrance examination, I have to go to Penguin Corporation during the summer vacation and…buy it!”
Su Zhe smiled slightly, but he heard his mother shouting downstairs.
"Su Zhe, come down!"
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