In an October 1997 issue of Computer News, there was such a report.

The main content of this report is to analyze several major reasons that hinder Chinese people from surfing the Internet.

According to the report, the number one obstacle to Chinese people going online is that they don't know what they can do, what they should do, and how to do it.

Then there are the reasons for the lack of Chinese web pages and the high cost of Internet access.

It is said that the Internet is a virtual information superhighway, as long as you go online, you can understand the world and obtain information.

But when people open the web page, their minds are blank and at a loss. They weren't familiar with the internet, there were no search engines, and people didn't know what to do next, let alone how they were going to find what they were looking for.

And the 3721 navigation website was born for this.

For the first generation of Chinese netizens, the Internet is a strange thing, and it is obviously not easy to write down those URLs expressed in English letters one by one. Too often, time and money are lost in luxury.

Then the 3721 navigation website appeared.

This website collects and links countless excellent Chinese websites and even English websites, which is convenient for netizens to directly enter the Internet.

This is an entrance!

November 11th.

Nine o'clock in the morning.

The 3721 navigation website was officially launched.

Tang He personally sat at the company's headquarters and monitored the number of user visits to the 3721 website.

Cao Chun came to have classes in the morning, but in order to witness this moment, he had already asked for leave from the school. At this moment, he was sitting in front of a computer, nervously watching the traffic statistics in the background of the website.

Pang Tangping and He Jiajia stood behind Wang Bo, looking at the computer screen in front of Wang Bo without blinking, and they were also anxiously staring at the number of user visits.

Li Zheng and several other employees of Youpin Bookstore also came in from time to time to take a few looks. They all know that today is the time for the launch of the products of the ideal country. They all work on one floor, and everyone has long been familiar with each other. Besides, everyone's boss is still the same person.

Pang Tangping stared nervously at the computer screen while babbling to comfort himself: "These days, I have put on a lot of vests in several well-known Chinese forums to promote the 3721 website according to the method of Mr. Tang...... Alas, today's online time is a bit rushed, and I stayed up all night last night to release the news of the 3721 launch...... However, our website should be successful......"

His words were heard by Li Zheng, who had just walked into the office, and he comforted him casually: "Relax, it must be no problem! Don't say it's you, those colleagues who know how to use computers in Youpin Bookstore, aren't they crazy to advertise on the Internet these days......"

"Also, Mr. Tang has played soft in the country's two largest forums last night, and the Jinyong Inn has also put it on the top, don't worry, no problem!"

Having said that, Li Zheng was also a little worried in his heart, and he was also a little worried that the number of daily unique IP visits to the 3721 website could not meet Tang He's requirements.

At a quarter past nine, the number of unique IP visits to the 3721 navigation website reached 400.

At half past ten in the morning, the unique IP visits of the 3721 navigation website exceeded a thousand.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, it was one of the two nodes of the day's Internet traffic explosion, and the number of visits to the 3721 website reached its current peak, with more than 3,000 unique IP visits.

At this point, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

According to Tang He's expectations, as long as the number of visits to the website reaches 10,000 on the first day, it will be a success.

You must know that today's websites are all starting from scratch, and users are accumulating little by little after being launched, and the 3721 website has completed one-third of the goal after only 4 hours of launch.

After all, the website was launched on the first day, and the vast majority of netizens didn't know that there was such a website!

Everyone dispelled the sincere fear in their hearts, and then they laughed again. One by one, they began to advertise on the website, in the forums, and in the chat rooms:

"Found a very special new website, 3721.com, this is a website encyclopedia, as long as this website is set as IE homepage, you don't have to remember those English URLs in the future!"

"3721.com, no matter what thirty-twenty-one you turn on, you can access the Internet!"

"Found a web address, everyone hurry up and collect it!"

"3721.com, the website personally recommended by Don Quixote, the author of "The Legend of Wukong", is so easy to use!"

"Speaking of conscience, in front of 3721.com websites, other websites are scum!"

"3721.com, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one...... I have to say, this URL is so easy to remember! Compared to 3721, the URLs of other websites are all!"

"I'm rubbing! This 3721.com is very easy to use, put together all the URLs that I often go to, so I don't have to look for them one by one! Have you used it?"

……

Tang He personally watched the number of daily visits to the 3721 website gradually increase from 0 to 1,000, and finally rose to 10,000 at 9 o'clock in the evening, but he was not very happy.

Don't look at him and Wang Bo, they said that as long as the traffic reaches 10,000 on the first day, it will be considered a success, but in fact, his expectations are higher.

However, 3721 is finally getting started!

Tang He stood up from the computer and stretched his waist for a long time.

Today, everyone in the ideal country stays to work overtime, even He Jiajia is no exception.

Tang He turned off the computer and walked out of his chairman's office.

On the way to Wang Bo's office, Tang He carefully analyzed the next work plan of the 3721 website in his mind.

According to the monitoring data of the website background, although the number of visits to the website has reached 10,000 today, the average time and depth of visits in the site per capita are very small, which shows that the 3721 website cannot stay in users for a long time.

This is where the shortcomings of the navigation website lie.

As a distribution platform for ingress traffic, a navigation website cannot attract users to stay for as long as a portal or forum.

However, it can't be said that the navigation website has no future, in the previous life, similar websites like Hao123 were alive and well until Tang He was reborn, 360, sougou, Jinshan, and pain news are all brains to do navigation URLs, which all prove that the navigation website has its existence value.

It's just that the development space and scale of the navigation website is too small!

Tang He knocked on the door and walked into Cao Chuncheng's office.

"Mr. Tang. ”

Pang Tangping and He Jiajia stood up, Wang Bo stared at the computer screen with blazing eyes and did not notice Tang He's arrival, and Cao Chuncheng nodded at Tang He as a greeting.

"Sit down. ”

Tang He didn't care about letting Pang Tangping and He Jiajia sit down, and he also pulled a chair and sat down, and then looked at everyone and said, "Let's have a short meeting and touch the next work arrangement." ”

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Wang Bo also stopped what he was doing and turned around, Tang Hecai continued:

"Today's 3721 website is very smooth, but we can't be intoxicated by this small success, and then we all have to work hard to make the 3721 website one of the most users in China as soon as possible!"

"3721 should achieve no dead links, frequent updates, and ensure the quality of the website from the simplicity, amount of information, and convenience of operation......"

After Tang He arranged the work for everyone, he smiled and drove everyone away.

"It's almost 10 o'clock, let's go home quickly, Lao Pang, you and He Jiajia are the same road, you personally sent her into the house and then left......"

Waiting to see Cao Chuncheng walking out of the office with nothing in a light body, Tang He hesitated for a moment and chased after him.

"Teacher Cao. ”

"Is there anything else, Mr. Tang?"

"There's something I'd like to ask for. ”

When arranging the work just now, Tang He did not assign a job to Cao Chuncheng.

Because at noon today, Cao Chuncheng had already told Tang He that his next teaching task was heavier, and for the sake of the 3721 website, he often asked for leave from the school these days, and he had accumulated a lot of work at hand, and he needed to be busy at school for a while.

Tang He is indispensable.

To be honest, Cao Chuncheng has contributed a lot these days, and even called himself and Wang Bo a lot of knowledge, after all, both of them are wild people. In addition, Cao Chuncheng's salary is calculated according to the time he works.

However, thinking about the plan in his heart, Tang He still hoped that Cao Chuncheng could take advantage of his free time to help him do something.