Before 2001, Yahoo was the world's most valuable Internet company.

It was this company that bought a website company from Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, for $5 billion in 1999.

And after this company was bought by Yahoo, it only created 20 million dollars of output value for Yahoo every year, not to mention profits. Even with its 100% profit margin, Yahoo would have to wait two hundred years to recoup its costs.

These phenomena seemed to be absurd in later generations, but 2,000 years ago, everyone thought they were normal.

Therefore, some experts in later generations analyzed that Yahoo played a role in fueling the formation of the Internet bubble.

Although Yahoo itself does not directly burn investors' money, countless small Internet companies rely on burning money to sustain themselves, which is like holding a salary to fight a fire, and the fire will not be extinguished when the salary is not exhausted.

After the 2000 election in the United States, there was finally no new money to invest in the Internet, so the Internet bubble burst with a bang.

In this trough, although Yahoo is different from these cash-burning companies, it has also been greatly impacted, its turnover has fallen for the first time in history, and its stock value has directly evaporated by more than 90%.

So if Tang He can make the 3721 navigation website go online now, then in 1999, with the development of the Chinese Internet, he firmly believes that he can occupy most of the world, and set a threshold for the vast majority of netizens, so that they can go online to the advanced 3721 navigation website, and then turn to other websites through links.

And at that time, in terms of traffic alone, the website of the Dallas Maverick's Cuban is a hair!

Therefore, the 3721 navigation website is a cash cow for Tang He to accumulate capital, and the greater the investment now, the greater the future income.

In addition, Tang He himself is not optimistic about the prospects of the navigation website.

In his previous life, Hao123 was the strongest one in the navigation website, but in his previous life, the price he sold to Baidu was only a little more than 10 million yuan.

After the acquisition of Hao123 by Baidu in 04, many portals and software companies have used their own traffic and installed capacity to promote their own navigation websites, what 360, 2345, 265......

The cost of navigating the website is too low, the threshold is too low, although there is a lot of traffic, but it does not have the real user viscosity, and it does not have the possibility of converting users into income, and the biggest source of income in the future is nothing more than selling advertising.

What's more, after Baidu acquired hao123, it has also been using Baidu's own huge traffic to raise hao123, so it is a win-win situation for both of them.

In the final analysis, navigation websites cannot really form a strong industrial chain.

Therefore, the website programs designed by Tang He in the early stage were all free and open-source programs used, and he did not develop the system by himself at all.

Of course, he doesn't have such ability and technology.,On the other hand, it's this era.,Although there are already many open source programs for websites in the United States.,But there are very few Chinese in China.,There are a lot of things he can't figure out.。

Using an open source program to make a station is actually to do secondary development on the existing skeleton, as long as you change a template, you can change the appearance in a thousand ways, but don't care how simple it is, but it is still a huge problem for Tang He.

Knowledge and skills are not achieved overnight, they need to be continuously accumulated and learned, obviously Tang He's contact time is still short, and he has not fully mastered it.

That afternoon, Tang He received a call from Li Zheng and skipped class again to come to the headquarters of Youpin Bookstore, Li Zheng said that there were artists and content editors to interview, he thought it was good, and wanted Tang He to come over to make a decision.

Two days ago, Tang He had recruited two programmers, and these two programmers are currently working overtime to correct errors and further process the semi-finished web pages produced by Tang He.

It's interesting to talk about the origins of these two programmers.

One of them is named Wang Bo, and he is a young man.

He is a senior at the School of Computer and Information Technology, Hedong University.

It is said that Hedong University established the Department of Computer Science as early as 1980, which is one of the earliest computer departments in China.

Before the 90s, the courses offered by the Department of Computer Science of Hedong University were all theoretical, and there was no way, at that time, the price of a computer was an astronomical amount, and foreign exchange had to be used for procurement, and the US imperialists did not accept RMB at all.

Therefore, before the 90s, only the best students who graduated from the Department of Computer Science of Hedong University were assigned to scientific research institutions to engage in computer research and application. Other students will be assigned to educational units to teach computers, or they will be assigned to enterprises and institutions to do some work that has nothing to do with computers.

But in the 90s, things were different.

With the rapid development of science and technology, the cost of computers has been greatly reduced, and Hedong University has not only expanded the Department of Computer Science into the School of Computer and Information Technology, but also used financial appropriations to purchase computers on a large scale.

In recent years, the foreign computer industry and the Internet industry have been very hot, and people with a heart can easily judge that the next boom will spread in China.

Therefore, since 1997, many institutions, enterprises and companies have set their eyes on the graduates of Hedong University who studied computer science.

It is no exaggeration to say that these students are all golden dolls, and they don't worry about not being able to assign jobs after graduating from college, or the assigned jobs are not ideal.

So why did Wang Bo come to the ideal country to apply for a programmer?

You must know that the ideal country is a private enterprise, and it is not an iron rice bowl at all.

Moreover, this era is still the era of graduation distribution, and Wang Bo's behavior is very abnormal, which is simply shocking in the eyes of ordinary people.

After Tang He asked Li Zheng to spread the news that the ideal country was recruiting programmers, the results at the beginning were not ideal.

Hedong is an inland city that is more conservative than the coastal and capital cities. For new ideas and new technologies, the vast majority of Hedong locals can't accept them, or their vision is even narrower.

Therefore, there are relatively few people engaged in Internet work in Hedong.

In 1997, even talents who really understood the Internet in Huaxia were scarce.

In the beginning, the applicants for programmers were of all ages, and many of them were laid-off workers who knew nothing about the Internet.

And even if some people occasionally understand computers and networks, their abilities are completely unable to meet Tang He's requirements.

Just kidding, I'm not as good as me, what kind of programmer!

So after Tang He participated in the job fair for one day, he completely lost confidence. He left the rest of the work to Li Zheng and buried himself in front of the computer in the dormitory.

If you can't count on others, you can only work your own.

Unexpectedly, before Tang He could employ workers, things took a turn for the better.

After the first day of the job fair, Li Zheng was a little embarrassed, he was not familiar with computers and programming, and he was quite faceless to do such an unreliable thing.

So he directly contacted an acquaintance teacher from the School of Computer and Information Technology of his alma mater, Hedong University, and asked him to help spread and pay attention.

Then the wooden and unspeakable Wang Bo appeared.

Tang He learned through chat that Wang Bo majored in computer science and technology.

This guy is a freshman and sophomore, but with the explosion of the Internet industry in the United States in 1996, he quickly became obsessed with the Internet.

In his junior year, Wang Bo didn't take classes, and he has been teaching himself programming languages and design, such as "Computer News" and "Computer Enthusiast", there are many small programming articles he wrote.

Then at the end of the junior year, this guy hung up seven or eight classes in a row, so that he himself was a little frightened, not to mention the assignment of work now, whether he could get a graduation certificate or not.

You must know that now is not the future generation of university enrollment, at this time the university attaches great importance to academic performance, and only a bad school like Erlongshan University can appear, Hedong University is the No. 1 school in Hedong Province.

So when Wang Bo heard from his teacher that there was a company in Bingzhou that was recruiting programmers, he ran over as soon as his brain was hot.

Then Tang He happily took Wang Bo.

Just kidding, I want technology, I want ability, I don't bother to care if you have a college diploma or not!