With the end of the 1997 spring new product launch of Tinkobar, since the afternoon of the same day, various platforms such as the Internet, television, and print media have been overwhelmingly discussing a series of new products of Tinkobar.

Especially web platforms.

Relying on the strong advantages of the Westeros system in the field of new technology, within a few hours of the end of the press conference, a large amount of content about the new product launch of Tinkobar appeared on the Eaglet portal, Facebook social network, Instagram image sharing, YouTube video site and other platforms.

Among them, YouTube's professional and non-professional review videos about the new generation of iCam, iPlayer, iRec and iWorld, as well as the most popular iMac personal computer, were roughly estimated to have more than 600 million total views in just five hours after the event.

On the Facebook platform, topics related to the spring new product launch of Tinkobar, such as the big price reduction of iCam and iPlayer, the standard environmentally friendly lithium battery of Tinkobar, and the trial of iMac computers, all appeared on the hot list.

Not to mention the special news pushed by the official top of the Eagle portal.

As of February 1997, overseas Internet users followed North America into an outbreak period, resulting in the number of global Internet users has reached 530 million in the latest statistics, it can be said that more than 500 million Internet users around the world, as long as they have recently come into contact with the Internet, can not escape the information storm bombardment of Ting Kobay's 1997 spring new product launch.

So much so that the official Facebook account of the New York Times couldn't help but ridicule the incident that night, saying that this media wave saved Tinkobar at least $1 billion in advertising dollars.

Most ordinary people are difficult to resist the impact of high-intensity advertising campaigns, so at 8 o'clock in the evening of the East Coast time in the United States, with the official website of Tinkobar and the official flagship store of Egret's Amazon online store opening the pre-sale of new products at the same time, although it is temporarily limited to North America, but in just one minute, the number of paid reservations for the new generation of iPlayer and iCam exceeded 1 million at the same time.

The most surprising thing for everyone was the controversial iMac.

Because after the press conference, the YouTube platform also released a large number of user evaluation videos to try and evaluate all aspects of the iMac-10, so that many consumers who were originally hesitant no longer need to go to the physical store to try it out or wait for feedback from people around them as before, but can make a decision directly after synthesizing some evaluation videos.

As a result, even the official Tinkobar did not expect that less than half an hour after the iMac-10 opened for pre-sale, the statistics of the two major platforms showed that the number of pre-orders for this personal computer had exceeded 100,000.

Then, as of 12 o'clock in the morning West Coast time, which is equivalent to 7 hours of pre-sales, the total number of pre-orders for the iMac-10 has reached 390,000 units.

Since most pre-order users opted for the $1,500 price tag instead of the $1,299 standard base, the iMac PC generated nearly $600 million in sales in seven hours.

7 hours, 390,000 pre-sales, $600 million in sales, what is this level?

According to industry statistics, it is expected that in 1997, global PC shipments will be about 170 million units, of which North America still occupies about 35% of the market share? Reach 60 million units.

This is equivalent to an average of 1.15 million units sold per week.

A week before the launch of Tinkobair? PC sales in North America of 1.17 million units were in line with industry forecasts.

Right now? Even considering the user's early adopter psychology caused by the launch of new products? The iMac-10 pre-sold 390,000 units in just 7 hours, which is equivalent to directly stealing more than 30% of the PC market share in North America in a single week. Certainly not scientific? But it is very intuitive to show one thing, Tinkobar's iMac for the Windows operating system that has almost monopolized the PC market? Definitely not without threat.

For the news of the iMac-10 that quickly appeared in major media the next Sunday? Microsoft could no longer be calm.

In the face of public opinion pressure, the students chose to be interviewed by reporters at their mansion on the shores of Lake Mercer in Seattle. Choosing to be interviewed in a private mansion, partly because of Sunday's rest, and partly? Obviously, there are also considerations that the gate classmates want to show a steady posture.

It's a pity? In the face of various sharp questions from reporters, the students who are definitely not good in actual personality couldn't hold back after all, and launched a big attack on iMac, saying that the research and development of the operating system is not a child's building block, and it is definitely not something that can be completed in a short period of time? At the same time, it emphasized that Microsoft has 19,000 employees, and the iMac R&D team is less than 1,000 people.

At last? The gate classmate also took a few media reporters to a living room in his mansion and showed everyone a red chassis shell Windows computer that was obviously prepared in advance? It's not without irony that you can make a beautiful computer by yourself, but that's not innovation.

The relevant interview was on major platforms in the afternoon of the same day.

And then? Quickly go crooked.

Especially a video on YouTube? Apparently after some spoof-style editing? Although it was only a little over two minutes, through some repeated shots, some of the pictures of Daimun's criticism of the iMac were repeatedly spliced and replayed, and a rather weird comedic effect was magically achieved.

Although the simple people of this era did not know what a 'ghost animal' was, certain emotions were always the same.

As a result, the YouTube video quickly went viral and drew one-sided ridicule.

One of the most popular comments at the bottom of the video undoubtedly reflects the sentiment of most people: he really looks like an anxious monkey!

Although the classmates of the gate were angry and directly called Simon that night, and after the big boss spoke in person, the video was deleted by YouTube, but in just a few hours, the cumulative number of views exceeded 20 million, which still made the impact spread quickly, and many people re-uploaded the original video after YouTube deleted it, and various related GIFs also circulated quickly. The anxious monkey is already destined to become a black history that the gate classmates can't get rid of.

In the midst of all the excitement, the weekend in late March finally passed.

It's March 24th.

A new week.

The day on which the Oscars are held.

New York.

In bustling Manhattan, many people start their day as usual.

However, it was destined to be an extraordinary day.

The start of the new week in the stock market is still exciting, and the enthusiastic response caused by Tinkobar's press conference on Saturday will inevitably be transmitted to the stock market, which is completely conceivable.

Therefore, at the opening of the stock market in the morning, with the sharp rise in the stock price of Tinkobair, the Nasdaq index also successfully broke through the high of 7,000 points, and the Nasdaq has reached 7,045 points in half an hour after opening.

At the same time, Westeros concept stocks have reached new highs.

Half an hour after opening.

Tinkobar led the gains, with shares up 4.7% and a market capitalization of $417.9 billion.

As the leader, Igrete also rose 1.6%, with a market value of $923.3 billion, and a trillion market value is becoming more and more in sight.

And then.

Cisco, up 0.9%, with a market capitalization of $653.5 billion.

AOL rose 2.1% and had a market capitalization of $386.7 billion.

Daenerys Entertainment on the New York Stock Exchange next door rose 0.6% to a market capitalization of $569.1 billion.

Nokia, up 1.7%, has a market capitalization of $218.6 billion.

Verizon, up 1.3%, has a market capitalization of $171.9 billion.

In addition, Microsoft, which was inevitably impacted, as a heavy shareholding company in the Westeros system, fell 3.9% in the first half of the market, and its market value was still as high as $282.1 billion.

Intel, up 0.3%, has a market capitalization of $236.3 billion.

Oracle, up 1.5%, has a market capitalization of $79.3 billion.

SUN, up 0.8%, has a market capitalization of $116.3 billion.

......

......

Then, it's all frozen!

Lawrence Fink, who had just walked out of the office after a week-long executive meeting at Cersei Capital headquarters in Rockefeller Center, on the floor where Black Rock Asset Management was located, had just walked out of the office with several executives when one of his assistants hurriedly greeted him and quickly revealed something.

Just after 10 o'clock in the morning, the securities trading department suddenly found a large number of sell orders for Microsoft shares in the market, amounting to more than $300 million.

Before he finished speaking, another leader of the securities trading department had already rushed forward again, and the chatter from the mouth of the old man came over: "Collapse, collapse......"

By the time Lawrence Fink and several executives arrived at a computer showing stock quotes, Microsoft's stock price had fallen by 12% before 10:05, and the cumulative stock selling orders had quickly accumulated to more than $2 billion.

Affected by the collapse of Microsoft's stock price, the stock prices of Windows PC manufacturers such as HP, Compaq, Dell, and IBM fell across the board, which in turn affected the overall turn of the entire Nasdaq market.

If the later generations of this time and space sort out the history of the Internet industry, they probably will not bypass this day.

24 March 1997.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, because of the huge response of the spring new product launch conference of Tinkobar on Saturday, the technology stock sector that had a good start to the new week, with a large number of Microsoft stock sell orders suddenly appeared in the market, the soaring Nasdaq index finally burst after breaking through the 7,000-point high, and went to collapse.

All this, seemingly accidental, is almost inevitable.

Compared with the mere 300 points in 1990 and the highest point of 7045 in 1997, the Nasdaq index has grown 23 times in seven years.

Even if the vigorous development of the new technology industry has opened up a complete new era, a 23-fold increase in the stock index in seven years cannot be a normal thing after all.

However, the new technology bubble, which many people had repeatedly warned the public about in 1995 or even earlier, miraculously rushed to a high of 7,390 points in 1997, which made many onlookers who did not understand financial stocks a little unbelievable, which is not only a miracle, but even a fantasy.

A fantasy bubble is a bubble after all.

No bubble can escape the fate of bursting.

Therefore, the collapse of Microsoft's stock price is just an accidental opportunity, and when it happens by chance, in the hearts of many people, it is inevitable, so everyone has a thought in their hearts.

IT'S THE TIME NOW！

Los Angeles.

Simon received the news at the breakfast table at the Dume-Point Manor, and at the same time, he felt a little emotional, but also a little strange.

Or Microsoft.

Once the collapse of the NASDAQ involved Microsoft, this time, it turned out to be still.

It's a pity that after all, things are not human.

Janet is quite regretful: "923.3 billion US dollars, it is a pity that it is less than 80 billion to break the 1 trillion US dollar mark." ”

This is naturally talking about Igrete.

Prior to this, even Simon himself thought that the market value of Igrett might exceed $1,000 billion, and judged that this might be another potential Nasdaq turning opportunity, but unfortunately it was finally fixed at $923.3 billion, a difference of $76.7 billion from the trillion threshold, about 8 points of stock price increase.

It doesn't matter, though.

"It doesn't matter if there is no breakthrough this time, it's just a matter of time," Simon thought to himself, and said to Janet beside him: "Even if the bubble bursts this time, the development trend of the information industry will not be reversed, and in the next few years, just the Igret I plan to split may fission into several trillion market value giants." There is also Tinkobar, which also has trillions of potential, speaking of which, it may not be impossible for Tinkobar to overtake Igret's market value in the next few years. ”

Jennifer on the other side looked up when she heard this and said, "Tinkobar, it shouldn't be easy, right?"

Even though the response to last Saturday's spring new product launch was very enthusiastic, many people still subconsciously feel that Tingkobair, as an electronic product company, is much worse than Internet companies such as Igrete in terms of style and development prospects.

Simon, of course, can't come up with any evidence that Tinkobar will go all the way up.

However, the market feedback of the iMac has made him understand that Tinkobar has settled on the market position of Apple at its peak. Next, as long as everything goes according to Simon's finalized plan, it is only a matter of time before Tinkobar's market value breaks one trillion, or even two trillion.

After breakfast, Simon rushed to Daenerys Studios, and almost everyone he met today was also discussing the turn of the Nasdaq.

Simon is still on track.

The first thing he did when he arrived at the company was about Tinkobar, and when he heard the news of the iMac-10's hot pre-sale over the weekend, Simon happened to have one thing in mind.

It's time for Tinkobar to open its own branded store.

Naturally, this is still inspired by the Apple Store of the past.

Simon had already had the idea when the first iCam was successful, but unfortunately the product line of Tinkobar in the following years was not rich enough, and it was far from the time to open a large brick-and-mortar brand store.

Now, iCam, iPlayer, iRec and other products as the main products, and iMac as the core, plus iVid, iDisk and other peripherals, the product line of Ting Kobeer has been quite rich.

Since I thought about it, Simon spent Sunday with his family yesterday while casually writing down the plan for the Tinkobar store. As soon as I arrived at the company in the morning, I asked Girl A to transfer the plan to San Francisco.

On the other hand, due to the three-hour time difference between the east and west coasts, at one o'clock in the afternoon in Los Angeles, the North American stock market closed. The Nasdaq index was stimulated by the plunge in Windows concept stocks led by Microsoft, and finally fell 7.9% in a single day, and finally closed at 6,403 points, compared with a high of 7,045 points at around 10 o'clock in the morning, a decline of more than 600 points.

The NASDAQ market, which is at a high of 7,045 points, has a total market capitalization of $9.3 trillion.

The decline of more than 600 points in a single day caused the total market value of the entire Nasdaq market to evaporate $730 billion in one day.

Mourning all over the wilderness!