October 1998 was the third month of the official establishment of hao123 studio, and the first month of the official public beta of QQ1.0 version. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At this time, Xiao Ma's Tencent company will not be officially established until November, and QICQ, the predecessor of QQ, will not be launched until February 99.

Baidu's founder, Robin Li, will not wait until after 1999 to return to China with the support and encouragement of Robin Li's wife.

In the same year, Jack Ma rejected the high-paying offers of Yahoo and Sina, and took 18 Arhats to set up an e-commerce website in his home that can serve small and medium-sized enterprises around the world - Alibaba.

It can be said that the three giants of China's Internet industry, BAT, which have a profound impact on future generations, have not yet been formally established.

However, Wei Ye seized the time to lay out the layout as soon as he was reborn, first solving his own financial problems by selling the Internet café billing system.

Then, it was preempted and laid out at the Internet entrance of netizens, including hao123, a website navigation entrance, and Monopoly, a desktop entrance to Internet cafes.

This can be said to cover almost most of the entrances of Chinese netizens in home and entertainment in the next few years, which will be a significant boost and promotion for Weiye's overall layout in the future.

Then, it followed the launch of the extremely important instant messaging software in the future - QQ, which is equivalent to walking in the forefront of China's Internet industry in this era and seizing an extremely critical opportunity.

Therefore, the idea of slowly developing to this point, replacing the position of Tencent in the future, and successfully becoming one of the three giants of BAT - the idea of social giants, has become Weiye's preliminary plan and requirements for his company.

Therefore, although this year is a good time for the portal to rise and develop rapidly, the three giants of domestic portals in the future, NetEase, Sohu, and Xinlang have all begun to officially emerge in this year.

At the same time, on an international scale, Yahoo, the world's first and largest web portal, has achieved unprecedented and terrifying results in the capital market at this time.

When it was listed, it repeatedly created miracles, and then it climbed rapidly year after year, and even in 1999, the stock price has risen to nearly 100 billion US dollars!

This value even directly surpassed the investment company of Warren Buffett - Berkshire!

Even once made the national media begin to question whether the legend of Warren Buffett will stop there, or even end completely?

It can be said unceremoniously that Yahoo, a portal founded by Chinese-American Yang Zhiyuan, was almost synonymous with the entire Internet industry 2000 years ago!

As for e-commerce, social networking, search engines, etc., these more advanced Internet concepts and products have not yet begun to be officially popularized for various reasons.

Therefore, before 2000, almost all of the most famous Internet companies in China were portals, and emerging Internet companies such as Tencent and Alibaba still did not have much influence at that time.

Nowadays, although hao123 website is the leading website navigation website in China, if Wei Ye wants to directly turn around and become a portal, it is very easy and takes the lead.

Because the web navigation site can almost be seen as a simplified version of the portal, it does not produce any content itself.

If you want to make a portal, you need to dig deeper, first of all, you must produce valuable content, which involves having to build your own editorial team, and the variety is richer and more comprehensive than now.

In this case, if Wei Ye is determined to be a portal, then with the current development momentum of hao123, there is no need to even think about it, and the best portal in China in the future will definitely have a part of Wei Ye.

However, from later generations, after deeply experiencing the unshakable dominance of the three giants of BAT over the domestic Internet industry.

What does a portal do??

Just shook his head slightly, and Wei Ye directly denied it and left it behind.

What are you kidding?

No one knows the ceiling of the portal better than Wei Ye at this time, and it can be said that Yahoo, which is now in full swing, is simply the best example.

Yahoo, which is now standing on the cusp of the entire international Internet industry, can be said to be the only thing that is still valuable in the future is the Alibaba shares that are tightly held in its hands.

Therefore, it is important to consider which is more important, but it is not even necessary to think about it.

Although the portal is the general trend of the Internet industry in the next few years, it will be in the range of five to ten years, or even fifteen or twenty years.

Portals are nothing more than that, and they are not the most essential or important part of the entire Internet industry at all.

Therefore, between the portal and instant messaging, between the scenery of the past few years and the glory of the next few decades, Wei Ye just made a choice that ordinary people would make.

That is to give up the current development momentum, hao123 navigation website transformation portal business, and plunge headlong into it, that instant messaging software that everyone can't see the future at all...

QQ！！

In October 1998, with the full support of Weiye, the beta version of QQ1.0 was officially launched into the market.

As soon as it was launched, QQ won the most effective traffic drainage and promotion in this era.

All the currently sold or unsold Monopoly Internet café billing systems are directly pre-installed or joined to the public beta version of QQ1.0.

And on the very eye-catching homepage, a carousel-style bombardment is carried out, with pages and pages of illustrations and texts from the minimalist style of later generations, to promote what kind of QQ is to users in this era.

In addition, the pop-up advertisements on the hao123 website officially stopped undertaking any advertisements, and all advertisements were directly replaced with a cute little penguin with a red scarf after expiration.

At the same time, the efforts of several editors just hired by hao123 studio are actually what later generations called the water army.

This black-and-white fat penguin with a red scarf suddenly dominates China's mainstream chat rooms, forums, major websites, and even most Internet cafes in Beijing.

For this unprecedented advertising bombardment, netizens in this era are actually more novel but not disgusted.

In addition, QQ is almost as small as the size of just over 200K, which is very fast to download and occupies very little memory at the same time.

Therefore, the public beta version of QQ1.0, far exceeding the speed of later generations of QICQ, began to circulate, spread, and ferment rapidly in the entire Chinese netizen circle.