On a summer night in the northern capital, the starry sky is brilliant.

After eating, we came out of Quanjude, looking at the night view of the city with bright lights, blowing the cool night breeze, and everyone left the sweltering heat of the day behind.

Cao Yunuan took Hu Yiting's hand and asked, "Hu Yiting, do you say that there will be many people who will use QQ in the future?"

Cao Yunuan's little hand felt warm to the touch, Hu Yiting couldn't help but look at her, seeing that her expression was natural as usual, he didn't let go, took her hand and said: "Yes, in the future, as long as you go online, you will definitely use it when chatting." ”

Cao Yunuan nodded, patted her stomach funny, and said, "That's good, it's not in vain." ”

Hu Yiting secretly laughed at Cao Yunuan, who was too ladylike, and the science and engineering girl was really mighty.

Jiang Yunshun wiped his mouth with a wet hand towel from the hotel, and said: "That's amazing! I calculated during the test that our server can provide about 10,000 people to log in at the same time, and if 100,000 people use QQ in the future, then our company will not have to buy a bunch of servers?"

Hu Yiting shook his head and said: "The limit of this server is definitely more than 10,000, and the main reason at present is that the bandwidth is not enough, which affects the maximum performance of the server." When there are more users in the future, let's find a telecom to rent a server and pay a hosting fee every month, otherwise we will be able to pay back the servers one by one, which will be really crazy. ”

Wu Shihuan bought a bottle of Coke from the side of the road to relieve hangover, and became nervous when he heard the words: "Hu Yiting, can this software be sold for money?"

"Can't sell for money. ”

"Can I charge users for their services?"

"No, you can't. ”

Peng Bin was on the side, and he was a little stupid when he listened: "Don't sell, don't charge? Then you won't lose, right? If we lose, should we return our bonus to the company?"

Hu Yiting let go of Cao Yunuan's hand, turned around and smiled at everyone: "This software is a slow-heating product, you need to endure it, as long as you can endure losses for three or five years, you will definitely be able to make money in the future." ”

Li Xiuming asked, "How do you make it?"

Hu Yiting rubbed his stomach: "I'm too full, let's go all the way to ** and then take a taxi, let's talk while walking." ”

Jiang Yun said: "What kind of taxi is it, it will only be more than ten kilometers back at most." ”

Wu Shihuan smiled: "I agree, let's talk while walking." Eliminate food. ”

Everyone agreed.

Hu Yiting explained to Li Xiuming as he walked: "QQ's profit model still depends on the accumulation of customers, and the more people who use it in the future, the greater our influence will be, and we will help customers send an advertisement when the time comes." I don't think it's a problem to charge a few thousand dollars. ”

Li Xiuming suddenly realized: "What should I do before? Can I only support users?"

Hu Yiting scratched his head, and said in his heart that he could probably only raise it before this.

Wasn't Ma Huateng scared to sell QQ for 600,000 yuan because of the surge in users, and the hosting fee of the telecom computer room was getting higher and higher month by month?

But Ma's luck is better, how to say it?

First. At that time, everyone had no vision, so that no one wanted to buy it. At that time, the telecom server hosting fee for every 30,000 QQ users was more than 1,000 yuan, and if there were 300,000 users, they had to pay more than 10,000 yuan to telecom every month. In addition, there were other free software on the market at that time, such as Microsoft MSN, Sina UC, and ICQ, so everyone felt that this cheating software could only lose money, and there was no hope of making money at all.

Second, when no one wanted to buy it, Ma Huateng was lucky enough to get more than $2 million in venture capital, so he escaped and finally survived.

As a result, QQ was born at the beginning of 99. After two years of hard work, at the end of 01, I finally got rid of the loss and entered the profit stage, so the alarm was lifted and everything was fine.

Hu Yiting calculated, it is now 1995, and the custody fee of telecommunications is still very expensive, about three to four times that of 99, but since the company's cash flow is sufficient, it is okay to burn money.

Hu Yiting said heroically: "Raise it! Wait for the users to reach one million." QQ must be able to make money on its own. ”

Wu Shihuan said: "Why don't you go back and contact the telecommunications company? Let's set up the servers in their computer room, I know that they have a business of renting servers, mainly to provide services for those large enterprises." Telecom's servers are quite strong, and it is estimated that it is not a problem to support tens of thousands of users online. The rent is about 1,000 dollars a month. ”

Hu Yiting nodded: "Okay, you can consult as much as possible, and after a while, we will find telecom hosting when the number of our users goes up." ”

Cao Yunuan asked: "Boss Wu, why do you know the telecom market so well?"

Wu Shihuan explained: "Isn't the hospital building a website during this time, I wanted to directly host it to Telecom, but later I thought the price was too high. The hospital found Taipo 486 as a server, and set up a website by itself, saving a lot of money. ”

"Oh. Cao Yunuan nodded: "The price of a dedicated server is indeed too expensive, if no one usually logs in, 486 is enough, but if tens of thousands of people really log in at the same time, it is estimated that even the Compaq server that our company bought for 80,000 yuan will be unbearable."

Peng Bin interjected: "I don't think the server capacity is a problem, if the bandwidth is high enough, the system will be optimized, not to mention 10,000, 40,000 people online is no problem, but at the moment the bandwidth is not enough, only hosted in the telecom room is the most cost-effective." ”

Hu Yiting nodded: "That's what I meant." ”

Everyone walked all the way to the **, and saw the ancient city wall under the light from afar, the light and shadow flowing on the glazed tiles, and the monument to the people's heroes towering to the sky, with a solemn feeling.

The wind in the square was very strong, blowing everyone's heat, and for a while there was a little relaxation, eight young people walked in front of the sentry on duty, and one by one they stood up and saluted the sentry, which provoked the comrades of the armed police standing guard to smile.

Walking to Chang'an Street, Cao Yunuan said on a whim that she wanted to stay to watch the flag-raising ceremony tomorrow morning, which scared everyone, so she hurriedly took a taxi and pulled her back to the computing office.

At ten o'clock the next morning, QQ was finally launched in Chongguang's office in Kexin Community.

Hu Yiting watched Peng Bin finish the download page, and immediately notified the computing institute to try it.

The software is small, only 187K. In these years, everyone is using dial-up Internet access, generally only a few K or even a dozen K download speed per second, if you make a few M big software, it is estimated that no one wants to download it.

To write the software is a technical job,Hu Yiting remembers that the size of the first version of QQ is more than 200K,As a result, his six fierce generals were stunned to code out a 187K super small package,The strength of the code farmers of the whole graduate student team is really extraordinary。

After calling the computing office, a few people over there immediately downloaded and installed it, and began to register an account to try it out.

Hu Yiting logged in with an employee's computer, his hand was relatively slow, and the registration number he grabbed was 1005, and the user name was filled in with a "nonsense small pavilion", and the avatar was selected as a dog head, and at the same time, he sighed in his heart that he could use a four-digit QQ number in this life.

The first person to add his friend was Cao Yunuan, her name did not change to her real name, her avatar was a girl with braids, and the first sentence was:

"Who are you at No. 1005?

"Hmm," Hu Yiting replied.

"Haha, I knew it was you, I'm smart!"

Hu Yiting couldn't cry or laugh, and said that just a few people were using it, and my username was "Nonsense Little Pavilion", and a fool could guess that it was me.

Just entered the world of QQ, everyone was very excited, and for a while, adding friends to each other became a pot of porridge.

Because the software is only 187K, the interface is rough and incomparable, and the avatar pattern is only 12 zodiac signs and a few ugly uncles, children, pigtail girls, and machine qì cats, and the pixels of the avatar pictures are all low and scary, almost like a mosaic.

Hu Yiting sweated profusely, and said in his heart that this is simply a communication software in the Stone Age, which is worthy of the first version, and it is really a slag of the soil-

(To be continued.) )

PS: Try to see if the chapter testimonials can be used?