In 1998, disasters were frequent, but it was also the first year of China's Internet industry.

Paying attention to the Internet, he clearly remembers that in June 1998, Liu Qiangdong, a vendor who burned and sold CDs in Zhongguancun, established Jingdong Company.

In August, Sogou officially launched a Chinese search engine, although this search engine is almost entirely modeled after Yahoo's.

In November, Brother Xiao Ma will set up a news company.

In December, NetEase's Ding Sanshi officially transformed NetEase from a software retail company to a web portal.

These major events set off a wave of the Internet in China for the first time.

For Zhang Yi, he was a little out of business some time ago, first following the predators to rob Asian countries. Then, he tossed his energy to the upcoming flood in the Yangtze River basin, and with his meager strength, he had achieved the ultimate he could.

A person's energy is limited, and after being put in other aspects, his own job will be affected a lot, for example, the speed of micro-hardware and software updates will slow down. But he doesn't regret it, and if he were asked to make a choice again, he would still do it.

If he made less money because he saved more people and recovered more losses for the country, he would have made less money, and let him choose again, he would still do so.

In May 1998, the micro-hardware software online mall was officially launched, which was completely based on retail software, and attracted a lot of attention once it was launched. The disc mall system, which has been running perfectly offline for nearly a year, was all cloned online by him. From the collection software, downloads of software, retail volume, customer feedback, etc., the content is exactly the same as the CD retail channel. The difference is that each software offers a free trial version with some limitations in terms of functionality. The paid version, which uses a low-price strategy and software with a price of one or two yuan, abounds.

The cracked software that comes with the offline CD, but the online store does not provide it in the download catalog, and if you want to buy these cracked software, you still need to buy the CD.

The online mall provides a directory of offline dealers and ranks them according to the number of sales. Relying on the huge eyeball effect of the Internet, the sales of dealers are also rising. The interests of most dealers have been bundled with the interests of the micro-hardware and software platform.

In Zhang Yi's concept, dealers, like Shuntong Logistics, are their own tentacles, and the coverage of their tentacles is the upper limit of their own business in the future. Therefore, for dealers, he spares no effort to support.

The online mall is based on the mature model of the offline software platform, which is just a matter of going with the flow and becoming a matter of course, and there is no difficulty.

However, the following plan is a bit more difficult, and the investment may be quite large.

After traveling around various Asian countries, he began to use it to write code whenever he had free time.

If you want to say which company was the strongest monopoly in the previous life, everyone will almost answer without hesitation, it is a certain news. OICQ has almost monopolized 99% of the network communication market, relying on the monopoly advantage, a certain news almost does not need to take big risks to research and development, to innovate. It doesn't matter if there is a new game or a new idea on the market, I copy it all, and then in the pop-up window of QQ, a small ad pops up, and it's all over. Innovative companies are either acquired by a certain news or directly bankrupt.

This kind of hooliganism simply does not work in foreign countries where intellectual property rights are respected, but at home, it is almost invincible. God blocks and kills God, and Buddha blocks and kills Buddha.

In Zhang Yi's previous life, on the one hand, he scolded the monopoly of a certain news and stifled innovation, and on the other hand, he was envious of it. And the culprit of all this is because QICQ is a monopoly and has no competitors.

The code he wrote,It's a communication software,And a message was almost completely plagiarized from ICQ at the beginning,His software is named VV,Subject to today's computer running speed and bandwidth,The software is very small、Exquisite,The bottom layer is written in assembly language and C++,The interface refers to QQ in the previous life,Emphasis on anonymous social function。

In his previous life, Zhang Yi made a lot of friends and spent a lot of time on QQ anonymous socialization, and he knew too well the attraction of this anonymous social network to men and women.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of tests were carried out on the software, and the beta version was released on the Internet, and a large number of advertisements were made on various websites with relatively large traffic. Of course, its own online software store has also carried out the promotion of a large banner on the homepage.

After the online test, the user group that joined the explosive growth, like the new new human beings on the Internet, many people heard about the instant chat software for the first time, with the mentality of giving it a try, after downloading and installing, they found that the software is very user-friendly, the operation is very simple, and there is no threshold.

The software has a built-in function of an alumni association, and after filling in your own school information, it will be detected by the system and automatically pushed to your own elementary school, junior high school, high school, and university. Through this function, classmates and friends who have not seen each other for many years can restore their contact information in this way.

Unlike other software propagation methods, instant chat software is completely spontaneous and viral.

After a person installs it, he will recommend friends, classmates, and family members to install it together, and this plague-like transmission speed makes him, overwhelmed with the telecom bandwidth and servers rented in several large cities in advance, and frequently lights up red.

Zhang Yi understands that the most money-burning time has come. In fact, he has done his best to optimize the software algorithm, but the speed of user expansion is too amazing, far beyond his imagination.

Fortunately, some time ago, he followed Soros to rob banks in various countries, making him a lot of money, otherwise, he would not have been able to hold on to this constant burning of money to buy servers and bandwidth resources.

At this time, it is not possible to save money, if it affects the user experience because you want to save money, causing users to leave because they are dissatisfied, and then want to pull people back, it will be difficult.

Therefore, he can only continue to rent a large number of servers and improve bandwidth in major first-tier cities and provincial capitals, and the money is spent like flowing water, this speed of spending money, Bai Jie was dumbfounded, out of duty, after reminding Zhang Yi many times, seeing that he was unmoved, he could only let it go.

She really doesn't understand that if you spend money on disaster relief supplies, it is a good deed, but after spending so much money, there is no profit point on this VV chat software, isn't it throwing all the money into the water?

She kindly reminded her several times, but Zhang Yi was not moved at all.

As the sole wholly owned owner of the company, he does not need to explain his actions to anyone. If you think about it, if you bring in investment, the equity will be dispersed, and it will be difficult to do anything at that time. He now truly appreciates the benefits of non-dispersion of equity.

VV chat software, in such a way, was born.