Thinking that the early birth of QQ may form a dominant situation in the global network communication software market, Hu Yiting's blood boiled, and he couldn't help but clench his fists, feeling that there was a great opportunity in front of him.

At this time, I only heard Peng Bin shouting with joy: "There are downloads! 21 downloads!"

Hu Yiting hurried up to take a look, only to see that the computer screen logged in to the company's server showed the latest number of downloads - 21.

"Great! Someone used it!" Cao Yunuan was so happy that she jumped up and applauded.

Peng Bin nervously refreshed the landing page and re-checked, only to see that the number jumped to 35.

Huang Haishi clenched his fists excitedly and said, "Hey!

Li Xiuming shook Peng Bin's shoulder vigorously: "Brush again! Brush again!"

Peng Bin licked his lips nervously, and brushed it again, only to see that the system records had become 41.

"This time there are only 6 more! We have to advertise again!" Peng Bin's voice trembled.

As the main force of QQ source code writing, Peng Bin felt so excited for the first time, and it was the first time he experienced the taste of seeing his own line-by-line software being continuously downloaded by users to computers across the country.

Hu Yiting couldn't help but be a little worried: "Now it's time to test the QQ server-side software, and don't have problems with the number of libraries, user connections and data transfer programs." ”

Cao Yunuan said with a big grin: "Don't worry, there are only a few people, there will be no problem." ”

"Don't worry if you have less than 1,000 people!" Peng Bin said excitedly: "The Internet is amazing, I have written two software before, but they are only running on our own system, and have never uploaded them, today I experienced the fun of Internet sharing for the first time, it was really cool!

Cao Yunuan pursed her lips: "What you wrote, obviously everyone has a share." ”

Peng Bin hurriedly nodded and shouted: "Yes! Yes! Yes! QQ is our own son! Even if this software can't be sold for money, I'm happy! Haha, I hope that the more people who use it now, the better!"

Li Xiuming said happily: "There are more people who use it." It's equivalent to helping us do a test, and if there is a problem, the user will send an email to the company's mailbox. ”

At this time, Hu Yiting had already made up his mind to make QQ a world-class software. At this moment, he said: "Let's also build a chat room! It will be built on the QQ domain name that we are about to apply for! It will be called QQ Forum!"

As soon as this remark came out, it hit it off with everyone, Peng Bin jumped up and said: "I'll build a website right away, and I can open it when the domain name is in hand!"

Hu Yiting said magnificently: "Since you want to build a public forum, don't use CFIDO." ”

Peng Bin was dumbfounded: "But domestic netizens are using CFIDO to surf the Internet." Otherwise, the internet fee is too expensive. ”

Hu Yiting said: "If you build it yourself, it's better to be a little ahead, CFIDO will be used as a platform for us to promote for free." ”

Hu Yiting knows that the only cities that provide Internet services in China are Beidu, Puhai and Shenzhen, and netizens in other places generally choose CFIDO (China-fido-net) such a dial-up BBS exchange system.

FIDO-BBS is an American Tom Janening invented a program in 1984, through guò it can be scattered around the BBS sites to achieve network communication, so FIDO-net is gradually formed, so that the world's BBS through guò telephone lines into one, through guò FIDO-NET exchange system, the BBS sites can communicate with each other, download documents, and deliver emails.

After the establishment of the first China-FIDO station in China in 91, civil computer enthusiasts have responded. The well-known CFIDO sites have been established in succession, such as Beidu, Zhuhai, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Harbin, Chengdu and other stations, which are established by netizens with their own computers as servers, throughout 13 provinces and cities, with a total of more than 100 stations, from 91 years to the present, it has gradually become China's first batch of ashes-level networms entrenched in the nest.

Logging in to these sites does not require you to pay any network fees to ISP Internet access service providers such as China Telecom, Netcom, and Inhaiwei, and individuals only need to bear the telephone fees for MODEM dial-up.

Once your computer is connected to the site server set up on the other computer, it will automatically send the posts on the server back to your computer by receiving emails, and then you can turn off the modem and browse the posts offline on your computer.

If you want to reply to the post. It's also to write a reply in the client on your computer first, and then dial up to connect to the server of a certain site, and use the client to upload the post, and then you can turn off the cat.

In short, this kind of dial-up BBS back and forth is very cost-effective. Although the operation seems to be a little troublesome, those who provide their own computers and pull phone lines to set up servers are regarded as selfless dedication in the Internet era, and they are simply the gods in the hearts of Internet worms!

So to sum up, the advantage of a BBS forum like CFido is that it can be read offline. And it only costs the phone, so the cost is low. And its bad part is that it is difficult to dial through, some popular BBS sites are often busy, unless the station uses multiple telephone lines and multiple computers, (for example, Ma Huateng's CFIDO Shenzhen Pony Station used four telephone lines to connect four computers as servers), otherwise it is difficult to do a dial. This is also the most unpleasant part of dialing BBS. Another unpleasant thing is the upgrade mechanism, in some places, there are many BBS upgrade rules are very cumbersome, there are many restrictions on newly registered low-level accounts, and it is very difficult to upgrade, which strictly discourages the enthusiasm of ordinary users.

Since 95, with the opening of Tsinghua University's Shuimu Tsinghua BBS, Shenzhen's "One Network Love" BBS and Sina.com's predecessor "Sitong Lifang Forum" in 96 have come out, and the hardcore old networms have turned to these "high-end goods". According to statistics, in 1995, the income of Internet users was generally between 1,000 and 2,000, with technical white-collar workers as the main force.

Hu Yiting explained to Peng Bin: "With the continuous popularization and promotion of Internet access services by Infohaiwei and China Telecom in Beidu, Puhai and Shenzhen, I estimate that the first public BBS forum in China will appear by the end of the year, and in the future, netizens will gradually abandon the BBS client and use browsers to surf the Internet." ”

Peng Bin was puzzled: "Hu Yiting, you mean that we are going to establish China's first public BBS?"

Hu Yiting said firmly: "Anyway, QQ is also burning money, so if you just put it together, you can also expand its influence." ”

Huang Haishi said thoughtfully: "In that case, the people who go to our public BBS are probably mainly Internet worms in the three major cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, and there are also Internet fans in other cities who have Internet lines. ”

Hu Yiting nodded: "Don't underestimate the development speed of China's Internet access providers, I don't think there is a harm in preparing early, but before the Internet is popularized nationwide, we must also continue to post advertisements on CFIDO to expand our influence." ”

Cao Yunuan said as if he didn't understand: "But I think we are a bit unprofessional, aren't we a semiconductor company for IC design?

These words made Hu Yiting speechless, and after thinking for a while, he said: "It seems that we have to set up another software company to operate QQ and QQ forums, otherwise, we are really not doing our job." ”

As soon as Peng Bin heard that he was going to set up another software company, he was not in a hurry to write the website code, but continued to use his premium account on the computer to send advertising posts to several CFIDO sites, after all, he was the only one among Hu Yiting, Cao Yunuan, and Huang Haishi who played BBS, and everyone was usually busy with study and scientific research, and had no time to engage in these things. (To be continued.) )

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