Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....
Netscape is a very interesting company, it comes and goes like a gust of wind.
When it appeared in 1993, it was a browser manufacturer. At the end of 1994, it was officially renamed Netscape Communications. When it went public in August 1995, its stock price rose from 14 million yuan to 75 million yuan.
At this time, Netscape tried to create a network application system that users could operate through a browser, but unfortunately it attracted the attention of less powerful companies.
Worried that Netscape might threaten its operating system and application market, VMware bought the Mosaic license in 1995 and developed Internet Explorer based on it, entering the browser market and competing fiercely with Netscape's Netscape Navigator.
In January 1998, Netscape lost the competition with VistaSoft's IE browser. Then in November of that year, Netscape was acquired by America Online and was completely dissolved in 2003.
The past ten years have passed in a hurry.
Having experienced glory and failure, it’s not a wasted life.
When Wan Feng thought of Netscape, he was in a fierce battle with Weisoft in the browser market, but he was gradually losing the upper hand and showing signs of decline.
The reason why Vistasoft was able to defeat Netscape was not because of the size of its browser, but because of its bundling policy, which was to bundle the browser with the desktop system.
This was also the reason why Netscape sued VMware a few years later.
If Netscape had a strong browser, it would be hard to say who would win or lose this war.
Wan Feng knew that Netscape didn't have a good browser, but he did.
If Netscape and Huaguang had cooperated, the world would have moved forward in a different way.
"Find me an email address for a company called Netscape in the United States, and then send them the Huaguang operating system."
In the days of dial-up internet, it was not only expensive but also extremely slow.
But no matter how slow or expensive it is, it must be passed on, as it is related to the birth of a revolution.
Xu Meilin was very familiar with this thing and started sending emails quickly.
Wan Feng also left the Ministry of Science and Technology and walked towards his office, thinking as he walked.
Just now when he recalled the name of Netscape, he thought of NetEase. Since he wanted to build his own media system, he naturally had to open a website.
In March 1997, China's first Internet site, BitNet, was established. It has little connection with Bitcoin, which emerged more than 20 years later.
People who frequently visited this website in 1997 or even in 2017 may not know about it.
It's really strange that this website didn't make it.
That year, this website also created a first in China: it was the first website to receive advertising.
IBM placed its first ad on it.
In June, NetEase officially established its website. By next year, Sohu and Sina will also be established. It is time for me to start building my own portal.
Wan Feng was not interested in using someone else's site name, so why not just come up with his own?
What should we name it?
Wan Feng sat at his desk and thought for a long time, and happened to see an idiom with profound meaning in the Bohai Daily on the desk.
The meaning expressed in the words is very profound.
Wan Feng took the two words "weiyuan" from it.
But when I thought that this name was too similar to Weiruan, I changed the word "Wei" to "Teng".
Tengyuan?
It doesn’t seem very good, so let’s just leave it as it is for now. If Xu Meilin and the others don’t think it’s good, let them come up with another one.
Now that we have a website name, the next step is to design the website page.
Since Sina is nowhere to be found, just copy it.
Wan Feng found a piece of paper and roughly drew a picture of Sina's page.
Now that we have a portal, we need a search engine. Although the name Baidu is good, it is a bit small in scope. Should we call it Qiandu, Wandu, or Yidu?
No matter what platform it is, just register and use whichever one you like.
Since we are going to play with the Internet, we cannot ignore the Internet bubble in 2000.
The Internet bubble that swept across the world wiped out many Internet companies, big and small.
Wan Feng thought about it and felt that even if there was a bubble, it didn't seem to have much to do with his company, so how could it dare to bubble up to him?
Let’s put the website matter aside for now. July 1st is coming soon. After the return of Hunan and Hong Kong, this part of Asia is very lively. Should I get something for myself?
It would be best if we could get the three animals out.
But this is impossible. People created this financial crisis just to buy at the bottom in Asia.
If the Japanese storm cannot blow, then the companies in Han Country will be the companies with the highest gold content. Even if I try to speculate on them, I can't beat the capitalists like Sister Huaer.
Even if you know you can't make any money, you still have to try. Even if you can't make the bottom of the three animals, it's okay to make a little money.
Register an offshore company in Xianggang and send people to speculate on the stocks of Sansheng.
As for Xianggang...
While the Hong Kong government and China are trying to boost the Hang Seng Index, it would be no big deal for Wan Feng to invest ten or two billion.
But can I pay this much? I don’t know if my conscience would hurt if I paid this much, but I’d definitely feel a pang of pain in my stomach.
Not only can you not pay it, you might even have to pay to hold on to the property when the time comes.
Although he now has assets worth 18 billion yuan, it is difficult for him to use this little money in a battle of the scale of the Xianggang Defense War.
Besides, with the country backing them up, there's no need for small fry like him.
He didn't need to worry about the return of Hunan and Hong Kong, so what he had to worry about was his own marriage.
In fact, he didn't need to worry about the marriage. His subordinates had taken care of everything. All he had to do was pretend to be the groom and enter the bridal chamber.
Then I took advantage of the opportunity of celebrating the return of Hunan and Hong Kong to travel outside.
Luan Feng always wants to see pandas, so let's go to Sichuan to see pandas.
Everyone loves pandas, and Wan Feng also wants to see a panda in person.
For this purpose, he even bought a new version of the video recorder so that he could record some panda clips to rewatch later.
Seeing that Wan Feng agreed to go see the pandas, Luan Feng was very happy. She immediately made a panda suit for her son at the clothing factory and said she would take her son to see the pandas.
"Is that reasonable? I'm traveling with my new wife to get married, and I'm accompanied by my ex-wife holding our child? Is that reasonable?"
Luan Feng rolled her eyes: "Why is it inappropriate? If you don't tell me that I'm your ex-wife, who would know?"
That makes a lot of sense!
"No! I can keep it to myself, but how can my son stop me from calling him dad? Wouldn't that give the truth away?"
"No matter what! If someone asks you, just say you got divorced and remarried."
"But what do others think of Zhang Xuan?"
Luan Feng looked at Zhang Xuan and smiled: "She is blind. A grown-up girl married a burden."
"Nonsense, a burden is a child that a woman brings with her ex-husband." Zhang Xuan corrected.
"That means you're dragging a bottle. Anyway, you can't escape marrying someone who drags a bottle."
What does "drag the bottle" mean? It's just nonsense, you can tell.
In any case, the scale of this trip is quite large. Wan Feng calculated the number of people and found that it could probably form a delegation.