In the early morning of February 18, Silicon Valley, the West also staged scenes from New York in the East.

Netscape President Mark Anderson enthusiastically opened six UNIX versions of QQ at the same time on his Unix system with a top-of-the-line desktop configuration with standard server configurations, and set up six groups, five of which were stuffed with managers from various departments of the company, and one was his personal friend group.

EVEN SO, MARK ANDERSON STILL DIDN'T FEEL LIKE IT WAS ENJOYABLE, AND JUST APPLIED FOR A NEW QQ NUMBER, PLANNING TO BUILD ANOTHER GROUP, WHICH IS NOT A PROBLEM IN TERMS OF PERFORMANCE FOR HIS SERVER-LEVEL HOST WITH DUAL 6X86-DRAGON PROCESSORS.

Even so, Mark Anderson still felt that it was not very convenient, and he said to a group of netizens who were also employees of Netscape in the senior management group: "Chongguang's technical strength is really very strong, and in the parallel state of multiple clients, my six QQ accounts are running smoothly, and none of them have crashed." ”

Victor, the technical director of Netscape, shouted in the group: "I have captured the QQ upgrade file for the fifth time, and now the technical team is comparing the data, but it is very difficult to crack." ”

Tim, the manager of the browser kernel development team, typed encouragement in the group: "You have to be patient, don't underestimate them because they are Chinese software companies, my only competitor in college was a Chinese girl, and that girl's grades in math and programming languages were always A+." ”

Technical Director Victor continued to make a roaring round face expression and said: "I bet that the technical basis of QQ's group communication function is different from their peer-to-peer communication! This powerful group function cannot be realized through server forwarding! Otherwise, their server would have been paralyzed a long time ago! They must have adopted P2P technology! What a cow! My tutor recently has a paper on P2P transmission, I will never look away, Chongguang Software is definitely the leader of this technology at present!"

Mark Anderson also reassured: "Victor, I trust your judgment, but can you calm down, concentrate on data analysis and comparison, and stop talking." ”

Tim also said: "I also agree with Victor's judgment, I grabbed some communication packets, and after analysis, all the information of the group communication was forwarded to me by the IP adjacent to me in the company colleagues in the group, and it did not pass through the server at all!"

In my judgment, only when the forwarding and receiving is unsuccessful, QQ will upload the information to the server for backup, and the server will provide the delivery when it goes online next time. ”

Victor couldn't help but speak again: "Tim, you're right, but everything will only be known until I crack their upgrade pack." ”

Mark Anderson asked, "What about after cracking, and is it any good for us? Forget it, you better stop talking, let's crack it first." ”

Victor roared again: "If we know how they work, at least our servers can be patched and upgraded with this technology, and users can get upgrade packages from adjacent IPs that have been upgraded, so that these users don't have to occupy the resources of upgrading the server, at least they can save the company a lot of money to expand the server." ”

Mark Anderson suddenly said: "What a good technology! Continue to crack it! Let's learn how these Chinese play!"

Not only Netscape, but almost all the programmers in Silicon Valley are discussing the upgrade of the heavy light software on the newly created QQ group.

A: "I have completed the communication packet analysis, definitely using P2P technology! Chinese are ahead of Silicon Valley!"

B: "I've also captured packets and analyzed them, perfect address allocation! I don't know how they do it! What a clever algorithm!"

C: "Ever since I started using QQ, I know that this Chinese company is a technology leader in the field of Internet communication, and the first version of QQ was only 187K to enable instant messaging, which is simply impossible without in-depth research on Internet communication protocols." ”

D: "You're right, but as a communications engineer, I'm more surprised than QQ's creativity, and I'm more surprised that the implementation of the group function has promoted Internet communication technology!"

E: "It's amazing!P2P, brilliant ideas and great technology!If it can be used for Internet downloads, it can reduce a lot of pressure on the server side!"

F: "E is right, this technology is really great, if Chongguang can provide P2P source code for everyone to use, as long as you embed any download software, this software can become a technology star! Venture capital companies will rush to invest!"

Overnight, the P2P technology, which was previously tepid in Silicon Valley, was pushed to the forefront because of the implementation of the QQ group function, and countless technicians and companies are trying to crack and learn QQ's P2P technology.

With the continuous expansion of the number of group users, there are also a few happy and sad situations in Silicon Valley.

PC hardware manufacturers and Internet access providers are very happy to see a domineering, long-term resident software appear on the PC platform.

According to an article published in an industry magazine after a survey by professionals in the computer consulting industry, all Internet users in the United States at present, as long as they use QQ, their online time is significantly extended, and the utilization rate of computer resources is much higher than that of users who do not use QQ!

Because many users will subconsciously open QQ as soon as they log in to the network, the frequency of use of QQ is even more than that of opening a mailbox to check emails! For those users who use the Internet on a monthly basis, it is generally until the phone is turned off and QQ is still on.

Such a high rate of software usage and loyalty has shaken the entire computer industry! So much so that many consultants in the industry have shouted the slogan "QQ will surely become the core of Internet social networking" in magazines!

Longer online time means that Internet access service providers can get higher business growth rates, and the occupation of PC platform resources also means that users are more likely to consider upgrading their PCs, which is very exciting for PC manufacturers.

DELL was the first company to be instigated by Chongguang Software to bundle free QQ into the computer and sell it with an installation CD with QQ. In the advertisement, it also boasted that DELL thinks about what users think, and pre-installed Internet communication software on each computer, which can provide users with the convenience of free communication around the world. This has become a major selling point of DELL computers, and for a while many whites chose DELL, until users found that QQ was originally free software, and then they woke up and understood that they were fooled by the manufacturer again.

The popularity of QQ has also promoted the business of various companies that produce Internet dial-up modem, such as TPlink, which focuses on modem MODEM products and MODEM chips and network cards, sales are also rising, especially new products with faster network speeds, there is a hot sales scene, computer users have replaced their old low-speed cats with high-speed cats, thinking that this can improve their QQ chat speed.

And the worry is that those mailbox service providers, since the emergence of QQ, each Internet user who has installed QQ will have a significant decline in mailbox usage, mailbox has completely lost a part of the chat market that has been occupied before, users in the market segmentation, no longer need to mailbox for laborious informal short chat, and move this part of the function to QQ.

As for AOL, which has grown into the largest Internet access service provider in the United States, it is mixed with joy, happy that QQ has brought continuous and stable Internet users and traffic, and is worried that the growth rate of its current main business, Internet chat rooms, has declined significantly.

In order to cope with QQ's competition for the chat room business, AOL even used the worst trick to sweep QQ out of the cheapest server rental business in the United States, forcing the other party to set up servers in the computer rooms of New England Exchange and Atlantic Bell, which are more expensive, in the hope of using the means of increasing operating costs to crack down on QQ.

But I didn't expect that in less than a month after using this barbaric method, QQ did an earth-shattering thing, and launched a so-called group function!

Since the early morning of February 18, AOL has begun to find that the speed of new chat rooms has stagnated, and even the traffic of more than 8,000 old chat rooms has shrunk, and hundreds of thousands of registered users and paid members of chat rooms seem to have collectively fallen into a state of dozing.

Such an abnormal state is something that AOL, which started with a chat room, has not experienced since the opening of the first chat room.

The company's on-duty engineers vigilantly observed the situation in the morning, and the situation continued until the afternoon, when the anomaly continued, and the on-duty engineer, who was responsible for overseeing the traffic and allocating server resources between chat rooms, finally reported to his superiors.

As a duty engineer, Pei Liangdong himself also plays QQ, as a Chinese who got a green card to stay in Silicon Valley, Pei Liangdong has always been very respectful of the technology of heavy light software, this company in his opinion is too long for Chinese, not only in the hardware IC to make a high-performance co-processor, but also unique in software, not only came up with such practical multimedia software as Super Solution, but also made the world's first instant messaging software QQ!

When chatting with foreign colleagues recently, QQ was also one of the focal points of the conversation, and Pei Liangdong found that as long as QQ was mentioned, foreigners had to admit that the Chinese may be second only to the United States in computer technology. Some colleagues even believe that China's computer software research and development industry is already quite developed, otherwise how could such a technologically superior Internet tool be born?

All these made Pei Liangdong feel very face-saving, and he would not hesitate to have the opportunity to jump to the American branch of Chongguang Software. Regarding the scandal of AOL driving Chongguang QQ out of the computer room, he was indifferent on the surface, and even said that he understood the company's decision, but he was extremely contemptuous in his heart, thinking "AOL is really shameless, isn't this unfair competition?".

Pei Liangdong has gradually come to his own conclusion by monitoring the traffic of AOL for more than ten hours in a row.

"Is it QQ's group function?

That's right! It must be QQ's group function that diverts the traffic of the chat room!

Wow! AOL is going to suffer a lot if this continues!

Should I report it now? Or do I have to wait and see?

Wow............ Looking at it again, it's still like this, fortunately, QQ users can only open one group per person, otherwise wouldn't the situation be even worse...... But that's not a problem.,Apply for one more number and then open a group.,It's nothing more than a heavy burden on the host.,For those users who only chat and don't do anything else online,It's not a problem to open three or even four QQ clients running at the same time。

It's over, it's already three o'clock in the afternoon, and the traffic is still sluggish! Many chat rooms have not had chat traffic for 12 hours! If this continues until tomorrow morning, the number of dead chat rooms without chat traffic in 24 hours will increase by about 40, right? Compared with the usual data of one to three, this number is simply terrifying! The number of death chat rooms has increased so fast!! which is much higher than the speed of new chat rooms!!

When Pei Liangdong thought of this, he was full of excitement, and even nervous to himself: "The mortality rate is greater than the birth rate!! it's over!!!!!

After speaking, Pei Liangdong immediately jumped up, and finally made the last decision before getting off work, after reporting the situation to his boss, he patted his ass and left, as for the analysis...... That's not my job!

After getting the traffic monitoring report from Pei Liangdong, his superior Sidrik was about to get off work, but out of professional habits, he still clicked on the email, but at a glance, he realized that the situation was not good, and there was an obvious difference from the usual cookie-cutter traffic report!

"Pei, this guy! Make a mistake! How can there be such a significant drop in traffic! What's the matter with so many dying chat rooms! What happened from last night to today! Is there a power outage in the computer room?"

Cedric's face tensed, and he picked up the phone and called the person in charge of the computer room, and got a report that the computer room was operating normally last night.

In desperation, Cedric called Pei Liangdong, who had already packed up his folders and was about to leave the company.

"Pei! What's going on! Your report is wrong!"

Pei Liangdong could guess what Cedric's words were aimed at with his eyes closed.

"Uh, boss, I never go wrong with my reports, and it's a fact that there is a noticeable downward trend in chat room traffic. ”

"Impossible! Did you shut down some vacant servers, causing the chat room to freeze, and the user was dissatisfied and went offline?"

Pei Liangdong became angry and said aggrievedly: "Of course this is impossible! I don't have the authority to close the server! I can only allocate the server resources occupied by each chat room to a certain extent!"

Cedric took a deep breath, "What's going on?

Pei Liangdong suppressed the fire, and reluctantly said sarcastically: "QQ's group function is online, boss, you should know? Every user can create their own chat group for free, I guess this may be the reason, right?"

Cedric was taken aback: "Is the user building his own chat room? on his own computer, or on the QQ server?"

Pei Liangdong: "It should be built on a QQ server, right? You know, after we kicked Shigemitsu out of the San Francisco computer room, they must have been angry, maybe to get revenge on us?"

Cedric broke out in a cold sweat: "It must be on their server, the personal computer is not so capable, and the bandwidth is not enough at all............! No, I'm not talking about you, Pei, I'm hanging!"

Pei Liangdong heard the racist words casually scolded by Cedric, and after hanging up the phone, he gritted his teeth with hatred.

"Yankee?!You're the Yankee!Fuck your mother's foreign devil!Fuck your mother's stupid fork!Damn!QQ will kill you sooner or later! The chat room business will end sooner or later! This company can't stay! Lao Tzu wants to change jobs!"