After the inquiry, Su Mu roughly understood the current situation of e-mail development.

Last year, the National Science Foundation of the United States joined the networking initiative to coordinate some important technological breakthroughs, and several federal government departments with deep ties to scientific research, including NASA, the Department of Health, the Department of Energy, and so on, have connected to the network.

After the TCP/IP standard came out, all computer networks in the world could be connected with ready-made communication lines to share data and information under this standard, and the Internet was born.

The Internet has only just appeared, and before that, universities, various departments of the United States, the military and other organizations were still using ARPANET, and there was not much information on the network, and people used e-mail to communicate, mainly using a product called "SNDMSG", which was invented by a doctor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

There was a computer in the office, and after making a call and connecting to the Internet, Su Mu asked James to find the email address for himself to see.

Seeing Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system, James also despised it, telling that it was not very easy to use, and if it weren't for the partnership between IBM and Microsoft to install the MS-DOS system in the computer in advance, Microsoft would never have surpassed Apple so quickly.

Su Mu knew what the future world would look like, but he didn't know anything about the specific development, so he had already retreated in his heart, and when he saw this simple e-mail address, he regained some confidence.

After thinking about it, Professor Marzer suggested: "It's actually good to study e-mail, this SNDMSG is unmaintained, there are many minor problems, it can only send very short texts, and in the 70s the network transmission speed was only 10-20 of what it is now, and a more advanced e-mail can be developed to replace it."

I heard that Microsoft will launch a new operating system in the second half of the year, remember it is called Microsoft-indos, like Apple's products, it will also try to use a user graphical interface, which is very helpful for the popularization of personal computers, and there should be many people using e-mail, no longer need to send documents to others by mail, which is very convenient. ”

Being a professor at Stanford University is not a straw bale, and combined with the recent explosion of personal computer users, it is already possible to guess that there will be an increase in email users.

However, Professor Malzer felt that e-mail was a dispensable problem, because it was perfectly possible to convey certain messages to the other party by telephone or fax machine, and who would check the email all day to see if anyone had sent them a message.

Occasionally, I will log in to the e-mail when I think about it, and I will receive a reply from the other party after ten days and half a month, which is a common thing, and no one knows in what direction the Internet will develop at present, even if Su Mu said that there may be a market, no one cares.

After James exited his email, he stood up and suggested to Su Mu: "Let's develop a picture processing software, this concept has been very popular recently, and someone has successfully developed a product that turns color photos into black and white."

Ask a very realistic question, how do you make a profit by developing e-mail? Since there are free products, why should users choose products that are charged, and some people sold e-mails in the past few years, and no one wants to buy them at all. ”

This question is to the point.

Su Mu also thought about it and replied: "I think now I don't think of making a profit, but attracting more users, as long as the number of users increases, I can always find a way to make money in the future."

There may be a lot of people who use e-mail, but how many people are so bored that they change the color of a photo on a personal computer, let's develop it first......"

"I talked to Mr. Bill Gates, and he said that if you develop a suitable product, you can sell it to him, and in the future, the user graphical interface will definitely be mainstream. My Penguin company sells computers, and it is clear that the number of individual users who buy computers is increasing, so our products should be easy to operate and preferably adapt to Microsoft's new operating system. ”

In the old radio station, I heard that the Microsoft brand is worth tens of billions of dollars, and the other operating systems that exist are unknown except for Apple.

Su Mu is the boss, who pays the salary the most, and he owns all the shares of Spider Software Technologies.

Professor Malzer patted James on the shoulder, told him to stop making random ideas, and smiled: "Then try it, no one knows if it will succeed until the software fails, does it?"

It's a crazy time, and developing a private email should be very promising, especially if you know Microsoft's major shareholders, if Gates is willing to help promote and implant Microsoft operating systems, and soon have a group of new users, I think the idea of attracting users with a free product is great. ”

"Yes, like James you don't want to swap out the mailbox, this kind of program can tie up users. Su Mu added......

Today is just to understand the discussion, Professor Malzer's salary is as high as forty dollars per hour, this money is not spent in vain, under his leadership, I quickly thought about the general direction of development, the difficult will not, the will not be difficult, and all kinds of professional terms often pop out of his mouth.

Su Mu suddenly found that he didn't need to learn programming specifically, he only needed to spend money to hire experts to help, and he could get the product he wanted.

After he became rich, his thoughts also changed, and then he began to wonder whether he should apply for the computer engineering department of Stanford University, and it seemed that studying business management was more suitable for him.

After all, a person's ability is limited, and if you have money, you can hire more people to help you create wealth......

The next day, James and the others came to Spider Software Technology and began to prepare for the development of a private mailbox.

Professor Marzer has to attend classes, and when he has time, he comes to work, and he can also take care of affairs and take on a supervisory role at home.

After Su Mu went to greet them, he found that with the little knowledge in his head, he couldn't intervene in their discussion at all, so he simply continued to prepare for the exam, the SAT test time was set for June 10, and the next one was August 10, so that he could catch up with the enrollment of the next school year.

In case he doesn't do well in June, he plans to take the exam again in August, the high school course is not difficult, and American universities are notoriously "easy to get in and hard to get out", so the only thing he needs to care about is which school to go to.

Miss Black quietly entered his office, without even knocking on the door, and then stood at the door, with a disdainful tone: "You have worked so hard, you must know that many top students who graduated from Cambridge University are not as successful as you, and they are already a millionaire with a net worth of tens of millions, and they earn more money in a month than they have in ten years, why are you obsessed with going to college?"

"It's one thing to not take the test, it's another thing to not get in, and I want to make my life more fulfilling. ”

Su Mu didn't raise his head, and continued to tell: "Moreover, my parents also hope to be admitted to university, and it is a pity to give up after preparing for school for so many years......"

(Sorry, the back pain is terrible, probably an occupational disease, two shifts today, lie down first, and write another chapter at night)