In Yuwenfei's dream, 2003 was the best year in the domestic Internet industry.

In this year, there have been many companies that will subdivide the industry in the future!

It is also the first spring ushered in by China's Internet after the bubble crisis at the turn of the century.

Countless people have transmitted information through mobile services, expanding the total business volume of China Mobile Unicom and other operators; more people have begun to install broadband services; it is also in this year that countless Chinese people have begun to connect their computers to the Internet and have begun to learn to shop, play games, browse news, read, and submit resumes on the Internet......

Sina, Sohu, NetEase all achieved their first full-year profits since their listing in this year; starting point Chinese began to explore paid reading; countless people chose to submit resumes online to find jobs, and the income of online recruitment services increased by 166% that year, and the company went public in the United States in 2003.

The investment market is beginning to regain confidence in China's internet. At the end of 2003, there were nearly 40 million computers on the Internet in China, and the official number of Internet users was 80 million, an average increase of about 50 percent over the previous year. The actual number of people who go online is estimated to be much higher than this number.

At the end of 2002, it was announced that the number of registered users of the game had exceeded 50 million, while the official statistics at that time were only more than 40 million netizens.

In March 2002, Tencent announced that the number of registered QQ users exceeded 100 million, when the official statistics of the country's Internet users were less than 40 million. Of course, Tencent's 100 million also has a lot of water, and many people at that time had two or three or even more QQ numbers.

It is conceivable that at the end of 2003, the number of real Internet users definitely exceeded 100 million.

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The domestic Internet industry has come out of the harsh winter and moved towards spring, which has been able to see signs since January.

The explosion of Facebook, the launch of Sina's blog and the breakthrough of 3 million users on the same day, also made the rest of the portals eager to try.

Although Sina Blog has not caught up with the pace of Facebook, the volume of three million users a day is enough to make people salivate, and it is obvious that it will not be long before this is a large website of tens of millions.

This kind of website set up a separate company and take it to the market to cash out hundreds of millions of billions, who wants to miss such a good thing.

Therefore, just after New Year's Day, Sohu announced that the Sohu blog has been officially established and will be launched within this month.

NetEase is not far behind, and immediately announced that the NetEase blog has also been established and will be officially launched at the end of January!

In fact, NetEase has done a lot of fun in making games in the past two years.

Not only is the agent's kimchi game elf very popular, but also the game independently developed and launched looks good.

By the beginning of 2003, several of NetEase's big IPs had been launched, including Journey to the West, Fantasy Journey to the West, and Tianxia. However, the response of the first generation of Journey to the West is average, and there are not many people in the world who play it, but the Fantasy Journey to the West is not bad, and the number of players has been steadily rising.

Although it can't be compared with the grand bloody legend, these games have allowed NetEase to turn losses into profits and successfully get rid of the crisis of being delisted.

However, NetEase's ambition is obviously not small, the game has been successful, and the portal has also mixed into the top three in China, they began to look forward to the network of instant messaging ambitiously, in last year, that is, in 2002, when Tencent paid for registration, launched its own network instant messaging software, NetEase Bubble!

This is going to compete with Tencent Pony for turf.

Don't say it, after the launch of NetEase Bubble, the upward momentum is quite strong, and the number of users is as high as millions. Of course, the gap between tens of millions and Tencent QQ is still obvious.

Now that I have seen the rise of blog sites, NetEase can't help it anymore and is ready to step in and test the water.

Anyway, no matter whether it works out or not, it's always a good idea to give it a try, what if it does......

As for the rest of the small Internet companies, there are countless blog sites, but they are not too competitive, and no one cares.

However, the two giants Tencent and Alibaba have not been involved in this blog war.

Tencent is engaged in their QQ show and membership fee business, and has started a plan to monetize traffic, that is, to launch a game business.

The people of Tencent finally figured it out, these days, it's still a game to make money, look at the grand bloody legend, it's just lying down and counting the money! Originally, Shanda was not a serious company, not even R&D personnel, but just an agent for a good game.

As a result, looking at this momentum, the profitability of this company has basically killed all Internet companies in seconds!

Who doesn't have a covetous eye for this.

The number of registered users of Tencent exceeded 100 million in March 2002, and now it has 180 million registered users! Even though many of them are repeat registered users, such a huge user flow cannot be compared with other Internet companies.

If you make a game like Bloody Legends, even if only half of these users play, how much money can they make!

Ali, on the other hand, is still focused on their e-commerce platform. Lao Ma feels that Alibaba, a B2B platform for foreign trade, has a low ceiling, and he should transform to C2C.

There are several forms of e-commerce, that is, B2B, which is business-to-business, and Alibaba is this model.

There's also B2C, which is business-to-person. In foreign countries, the representative of this kind of e-commerce is, of course, Amazon, and it is also dangdang and excellent in China. The competition is still fierce, and Lao Ma wants to avoid this kind of competition.

Finally, there's C2C, which is person-to-person. There are relatively few people who do this model, and in 2003 there was no decent C2C website in China. Lao Ma is keenly aware that this is a huge blue ocean market with unlimited development potential!

So, within Alibaba, a secret project team was established, which is the Taobao project team!

Around the same time, in the capital Zhongguancun, a small boss who sold CDs also began to try to sell goods online.

Brother Dong, who was famous in later generations, at this time, still opened a store in Zhongguancun.

I have to say that the top students of the National People's Congress, even if they are doing small business, are better than ordinary people.

Dongge's shop is genuine, and the business is quite prosperous.

In the past two years, there have been a lot of online sales of computers and mobile phones, most of which are in the mode of doing publicity in big forums and then making a small website or small forum to sell goods.

Brother Dong has a smart brain, he found the largest IT forum in the industry, bought off the forum moderator, stuffed some money into people privately, and asked the moderator to help him advertise.

Sure enough, Dongge's disc spot is famous on the Internet, and there are many people who buy it through the Internet.

(PS: Time has advanced to 2003, and everyone knows what happened that year, but these things can't be written, so in the text, I will downplay these backgrounds and will not arrange the corresponding plot.) It's good that everyone understands this background. ）