Chapter 121: The Father of WeChat

Don't look at Tang He now has an excellent product team, but just polishing this online advertising system is enough for these people to worry.

And Wang Bo, Tang He also counted on him to be able to steal more teachers throughout the design process, after all, these young professors are all part-time, and it is impossible for them to stay in the ideal country all the time.

From this point of view, Tang He's background is still too shallow, which is like those Chinese Internet bigwigs in the previous life, when they made a fortune, they waved a few dozen siblings for them to drive, and the spirit of the king was full of domineering.

Tang He lacks his own capable players who can be reused, and lacks a truly excellent product manager!

At present, the excellent bookstore is expanding in an orderly manner under the auspices of Li Zheng, and Lu Guoxin is charging in front, so there is no need for Tang He to work carefully.

This is not the case with the Ideal Country.

Tang He must pay attention to the construction of Cao Chuncheng's team's advertising platform at any time to avoid them taking detours in the general direction.

In addition, Tang He also wants to take this opportunity to learn some knowledge and experience from these professors, this opportunity is really rare.

As for the 3721 navigation website, Wang Bo is responsible for daily maintenance, and Pang Tangping and He Jiajia are promoting, although Tang He does not need to worry too much.

However, if you want to increase the value of 3721 precipitation users, so that users can not do without the 3721 navigation website, the best way at present is to develop 3721's own free mailbox system as soon as possible.

But there is no one in Tang He's hands!

Thinking that NetEase developed the first Chinese e-mail system in March 1998, it began to sell e-mail systems to local telecommunications departments, and soon accumulated the first five million in his life, and then NetEase quickly launched a free e-mail service, bonding countless netizens, Tang Hao's mood couldn't help but be a little depressed.

In any case, he has to take the big killer of free mailbox in his hands!

In Ding Lei's vision, as long as he has enough resources in his hands, he is bound to attract traffic through free email services.

Therefore, I have to find a way to launch a free mailbox service on the 3721 navigation website before NetEase no matter what.

It's just where to find a programming master?

Tang He carefully rummaged through his memories in his mind.

Then a person's name popped up.

Zhang Xiaolong!

Tang He remembered that Zhang Xiaolong was not because Zhang Xiaolong was the father of WeChat in later generations, of course, it is undeniable that he did covet WeChat in later generations.

But right now, the reason why Tang He thought of Zhang Xiaolong was because of a product he designed.

Foxmail!

It seems that in October, Tang He saw a report about Zhang Xiaolong from a certain issue of "Computer News". This report blew Zhang Xiaolong into the sky, and directly praised Zhang Xiaolong as Zhou Hongwei of Founder Software, that is, the cardinal of later generations, and reigned side by side in this era.

However, Zhang Xiaolong does deserve such praise.

This is not only because he created WeChat, a national app in the future, and changed the lifestyle of countless people.

Instead, Zhang Xiaolong completed an email software alone this year - Foxmail.

The software shocked the industry as soon as it was launched, and even ZDnet, the most well-known technology website in the United States, gave it a "five-star". You must know that before Zhang Xiaolong, Huaxia programmers have never won such an honor!

And this software has caused countless people to abandon the Outlook mailbox that comes with the Microsoft system and use his Foxmail instead.

What's more, Foxmail is so popular that Zhang Xiaolong has had to put out a language pack and have his loyal fans around the world translate into more than a dozen languages.

It's just that Zhang Xiaolong's software is a free mailbox, so even if he has more users, Zhang Xiaolong doesn't have any income.

If you can invite Zhang Xiaolong to join Ideal Country and ask him to change Foxmail from a software client to a web product......

Whether it is in terms of design difficulty or time interval, it should be possible to develop a free mailbox system before Ding Lei, right?

If even Zhang Xiaolong could not complete the development of the free mailbox system before March 1998, Tang He felt that if he was replaced by any programmer in this era, even if it was the cardinal leader Zhou Hongweilai, it would be impossible to complete this arduous task within the specified time.

Who hasn't thought of the big killer of free mailbox before!

Even Ding Lei led the team to develop it for more than half a year to complete NetEase Mail!

No, Zhang Xiaolong must be contacted as soon as possible!

Tang He sneaked out of the back of the classroom, and then called the company's landline while walking out.

It was Sister Wang at the front desk who answered the phone, and Tang He asked her to call Wang Bo to listen to the phone.

After contacting Wang Bo, Tang He asked Wang Bo to quickly contact the editor of "Computer News" to see if he could contact Zhang Xiaolong or get Zhang Xiaolong's address.

In the past month, Wang Bo and Cao Chuncheng have often published some high-quality small articles in the "Computer Newspaper", so they have long been familiar with the editors of the "Computer Newspaper". Not only did the two sides have each other's email addresses, but they also used a lot of phone calls with each other because of the problem with the manuscript.

As soon as he hung up the phone, Tang He hurried to the dormitory.

He wanted to find out if there was Zhang Xiaolong's contact information on the "Computer News" he had read. It's a pity that when Tang He turned to the October issue of "Computer News", he regrettably found that there was no information about Zhang Xiaolong in the article.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for Wang Bo to call Tang He.

Wang Bo told Tang He that Zhang Xiaolong now works in Nanhai and is a programmer engaged in software development.

Tang He hurriedly wrote down Zhang Xiaolong's work address with notes.

After hanging up the phone and looking at the cash on his body, Tang He grabbed his coat and took a taxi to the airport.

I just don't know if there are any flights to the South China Sea yet!

On the way, Tang He called Li Zheng and told him to hurry up and contact Intel China, first move the server specially customized to recruit Cao Chuncheng to the company for Cao Chuncheng and them to use, and then purchase a few servers from Intel China to replace the current web host used by the 3721 navigation website.

If Tang He still regards the 3721 navigation website as a tool that can be realized, then with the current design of the static web page of 3721, the virtual space, that is, the virtual hosting provided by the service provider, is large enough and sufficient.

But if according to his current vision, to build 3721 into an aggregation platform, not only to provide users with free online email services, but also to serve as a landing platform for advertising alliances in the future, then the space and bandwidth required are massive!

Moreover, all the data of the website is related to the company's secrets, which is the core competitive technology of the ideal country, and it is impossible to rent any virtual host, which must have its own independent server!

Even this server is not a simple few, dozens of units can solve the problem.

You think, whether it's an email or an ad network, it's a huge amount of data running!

In addition to the server and bandwidth, you can't let users wait for a few minutes and not be able to log in to the mailbox!

Thinking of the predicament that the ideal country was about to face, Tang He's heart ached faintly.

No wonder, whether in the past life or in this life, everyone has always thought that the Internet industry is a money-burning industry.

Sure enough!