Jim didn't know that his report would cause a huge shock to the teachers and students in Beijing, and even gradually spread, and later cause a shock to the major universities in Beijing. Although in the end, almost no one knew who the "Bramble" was, this did not prevent Jing Jian from quietly becoming the idol and legend of many students.

And the next day, Jim hurried back to the United States, and the reason why he was in such a hurry was because of the launch of the world's first portal - Blue Star. Ahem, there is no need to guess, the name also comes from Jing Jian's bad taste.

At this time, the major media in the United States were already overwhelmingly advertised, and the budget for the promotion of Bluestar Network was as high as 4 million US dollars.

At that time, inspired by pioneers such as Apple and Microsoft, there were actually many computer companies in the United States, but most of them focused on technical research and development or detailed introduction of e-commerce products. In other words, computer companies are paying too much attention to technology and not enough to consumers. And Bluestar is an exploration of the profit model.

After getting off the plane, before it was too late to reverse the jet lag, Jim came directly to the company. He first asked the company's CTO, Ma Kai: "What is the current number of applicants?"

Ma Kai smiled: "It's more than fifty-eight thousand. According to the growth trend, this morning's launch will exceed 60,000. The only concern is user stickiness, and I hope that after a month, we can guarantee more than 50,000 long-term users. ”

In addition to the promotional advertisements, the Iceberg Network also sent out more than 100,000 CDs with a registration page to invite customers to surf the Internet for free for one month. And promised that after the probationary period expires, I will stay and listen to the honor. At this time, the "cat" is used to access the Internet, and the Internet fee is expensive, which also attracts a large number of users who love to take advantage of it. Of course, after the expiration of the probationary period, there will definitely be a lot of loss.

Hearing that the publicity was good, Jim was a little relieved, but he was worried about another question: "Ma Kai, is the server capacity enough?"

"It has been expanded to meet the needs of 100,000 users online at the same time. However, this is only theoretical, and I recommend scaling up to 200,000 as soon as possible. ”

"Well, I hope so too!" laughed Jim. I'm not afraid of downtime, I'm afraid that there are not enough users!

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Gomez is a computer veteran who has always been interested in the latest developments in the computer IT industry. Seeing the online advertisement of Bluestar, which was founded by Iceberg Network, he had long looked forward to it, and in the previous trial operation, Gomez had become a registered user. So when it was officially launched at nine o'clock, he couldn't wait to land on the page.

After opening the page, Gomez frowned slightly, and the full-text page looked bland. Due to bandwidth issues, pages nowadays rarely have content such as drawings, let alone audio, video, animations, etc.

And on the main page, there are the top 10 news of the day. Five is American, and Five is world. Because Europe and the United States attach great importance to copyright, those who broadcast news like Bluestar can only be purchased from major news agencies or media. Therefore, at the beginning, simply win by quality, Bluestar spent a small amount of money every day to select the top ten news of the day in the world.

After opening a piece of news and skimming through it cursoryly, Gomez suddenly found that a discussion box appeared at the bottom of the news. After clicking to enter, you enter a place similar to a chat room, and there are not many people who enter, plus Gomez, there are only a few users, and no one posts discussions. After thinking about it, Gomez casually typed "Dreams and passion!" Gomez didn't know that he was the first user to comment on Bluestar.com.

As for the technical discussion forum, Gomez is still more interested. Even in the online shopping area, Gomez bought a few White Lotus products.

After browsing them all, Gomez commented: "It's a bit like BBS, and the idea of categorizing chat rooms is a bit new. It seems to be very popular, and some do not live up to the name. That iceberg network seems like that, right?"

In the eyes of a considerable number of experts and technical elites, such a site seems somewhat deviant, and many even scoff at it. If you don't make those computer novices confused, what kind of good company is that? How can you highlight your superiority? So Gomez's evaluation is already very polite.

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Bruno is a long-time computer enthusiast and has owned a personal computer for a long time. He felt completely different, suddenly realizing that the content of the site seemed to be all-encompassing, and he felt as if he had entered a treasure trove. In the past, Bruno had to search everywhere in order to find some information and ask a question, but here, it seems that he can find the answer.

After thinking about it, Bruno posted two questions about his recent encounter in the special chat room. After a while, I got the answer from several enthusiastic "melon-eating masses". Bruno's eyes lit up all at once......

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Paul is a computer novice. He was just in fashion and couldn't get used to seeing his classmates show off, so he begged his parents to buy a computer. However, his use of the computer is still in a state of confusion, nothing more than attracted by advertisements, or by the free CD-ROMs, today he clicked on the Blue Star Network.

According to the manual, Paul registered as an official user step by step, and by the way, he registered an email address. Finally, Paul was overjoyed to find that he had received an email in his mailbox.

Curious, Paul opened the email and saw an advertisement for a product. After a cursory browsing, Paul found a few more things he wanted, such as mouse pads, dust covers, etc., and found that his pocket money was enough, so Paul immediately placed an order online.

At the end of the email, there is an agreement that if the user wants to use the email for free forever, he or she needs to receive such an email. If you refuse, you will be charged for your email address after the trial period expires.

Due to the low capacity of the server at this time, many commercial e-mail addresses are charged, except for intranets such as universities and research institutes. For Paul, he doesn't have an email address anyway, and it's not bad to use Bluestar.com. And it's free, just a few ads? So what?

Paul then began to browse through other content, and before he knew it, he was drawn to the sections......

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On the day of the launch, compared with the disapproval of those technical elites, many users felt the convenience and friendliness of Bluestar.com, after all, computer rookies accounted for the vast majority at this time. The number of registered users unsurprisingly increased and soon exceeded 70,000 or 80,000...... At 2:15 p.m., the server of Bluestar finally went down......