The first day of the Lunar New Year in 2002.

Chen Yu and other employees of the company got up early, and before it was time to go to work, everyone had already started working.

"Mr. Chen is early. ”

"Early. ”

"Have you had breakfast?"

"No, I'm eating. ”

"Slow down, it's okay, there's still more than half an hour to go to work." ”

Chen Yu greeted everyone and entered the office.

Then Zhang Jianming, Li Nan, Xie Zhang, and Wang Chang were all called over.

"How's it going, how are you preparing?"

Mr. Chen rest assured that everything was according to the original plan, and it was officially launched at 12 o'clock. ”

"How's the download now?"

"I've said hello to the major guilds before, and there are about 100,000 downloads so far. ”

In order to facilitate netizens, YY has launched the market a few days ago for netizens to download.

However, the official operation was officially launched on the first day of the Lunar New Year, that is, after 12 o'clock.

"100,000 times. ”

This number is somewhat low.

However, Chen Yu did not show anything.

If you just look at the number of downloads, more than 100,000 times is indeed low.

But if more than 100,000 times are Internet café users, it is not low.

But this cannot be confirmed.

In 2002, the number of Internet cafes in China was about 100,000, and although many of the major guilds cooperated with the company, it was impossible for any Internet café to say hello and download YY. Among them, there are also many individual users.

Individual user Chen Yu is not particularly valued.

What he values most now is the Internet café.

Don't look at the fact that there are only about 100,000 Internet cafes in the country, but if each Internet café provides 100 computers, he can directly let 10 million Internet users access the Internet. This is just the first batch, because everyone knows that a computer can't be used by just one user. After this one user, there will be other users.

It can be said that a computer can bring up to 10 users in 24 hours.

On average, there are about 4.

In this way, the number of Internet users who access the Internet through Internet cafes will reach 40 million, which is almost the number of domestic Internet users.

Of course, this is calculated according to 100 computers per Internet café, in fact, the scale of many township Internet cafes at this time does not have 100 units, most of them only have about 50 units, and some even have only more than 20 units. But no matter what, even if it is about 50 on average, the number of Internet users that can be reached by Internet cafes can reach 20 million.

That's almost half or more of the current number of Internet users in the country.

In other words, if you master the Internet café, you will basically master the vast majority of domestic users.

It's just that Chen Yu hasn't established big data for the time being, and he can't know how many of the 100,000 downloads are Internet café users and how many are individual users.

"Why, everyone is not happy. ”

Seeing everyone's serious expressions, Chen Yu smiled and said.

"Mr. Chen, it's my fault, I only cared about contacting the major guilds, and didn't cooperate with the major websites. ”

Zhang Jianming took responsibility first.

Chen Yu shook his head: "Our YY hasn't officially launched the service yet, so you admit that you are wrong, it's too early." Besides, sticking to the guild is also our main way to promote. Working with other sites works, but it doesn't work very well. Even if you advertise on the portal, it's really useless. ”

"The explosion of instant messaging does not rely on superb traffic, but on the interaction between people, which is one of the important reasons why UC failed before. ”

Speaking of which, we have to talk about Internet cafes again.

In fact, in the early stage of the development of the Internet in China, everything was inseparable from Internet cafes.

Online games are.

Instant messaging too.

Everyone saw a lot of people playing games in Internet cafes, so they also played along.

Everyone also saw others using QQ in Internet cafes, so they also used it.

If there is no demonstration role played by the Internet café, even if the traffic is large all of a sudden, everyone will feel a little single.

Who knows if it's a person or a dog on the other side of the computer?

"Let me tell you a story. ”

Seeing that everyone was still not smiling, Chen Yu said: "Do you know what QQ was like when it was first launched?"

"By the way, QQ back then was not called QQ, he was called OICQ. ”

In 2000, because OICQ was too similar to ICQ in the United States, it was sued by ICQ for infringement, and later changed its name to QQ.

"Alas, look at your appearance, you don't know at first glance. ”

Chen Yu spread his hands helplessly: "Then I'll say it directly." When QQ was launched, it was really miserable. Penguin has no money, QQ doesn't have any traffic, Ma Huateng and they only did this one program, and they have been entertaining themselves. It's just a headache to entertain yourself and no one to play, since it's instant messaging, what kind of instant messaging is no one using. ”

Later, Ma Huateng found out that it seemed that women were very popular online. Yes, haven't we used this trick before? Ma Huateng said to everyone in the company, everyone registered 3, no, 10 female QQ numbers. Each person must add 100 male friends to chat. ”

So, relying on the operation of shemales, QQ attracted the first batch of members at once. ”

As soon as this story was finished, Zhang Jianming, Li Nan, and Wang Chang ...... They laughed out loud.

"Hahaha, hahaha. ”

"Shemale operation, really fake?"

"It must be true, we've used it too. ”

"We've used it, but we're real beauties, what kind of shemales. ”

"But, Mr. Chen, where did you listen to the gossip, it's too funny. ”

Such gossip is really laughing to death.

The people who were still serious before were suddenly relieved.

"This gossip has already spread. ”

"I'll tell you, don't bury your head in nothing but know work, and watch more gossip in the circle, such as about Penguin Ma Huateng, Jinshan Qiu Bojun and Lei Jun, Netease Ding Lei's ...... It's good for us. ”

"You guys, what's the reason for my, it's because I'm inquiring about their gossip every day. ”

This is, of course, a joke.

It's just a joke, but it's not absolute.

There is actually some truth to this gossip.

Sometimes it's really hard for entrepreneurs to get started.

It's so hard that you don't even know how a company like this came to the scale it is now.

Just like Alibaba in later generations, Mr. Ma was really a bragging master.

People can't even afford to rent an office building, but that's it, Eighteen Arhats are crammed into an apartment, and Alibaba still appears. Of course, the emergence of Alibaba may not be smooth sailing, and the Eighteen Arhats are not the same as Ma Huateng, buying and selling on their own websites to make some popularity.

is like Brother Dong in later generations, can he think of founding JD.com in the future when he sells CDs?

Well, although Dong Ge is a hero, what does it matter.

"Alright, alright, you guys go their separate ways, calm down. ”

Kicking everyone out of the office, Chen Yu himself turned on the computer and clicked on the legend.

Speaking of which, I haven't played the legend for a long time, so I miss it.