Chapter 185: Ten Million to Ten Million
Mark Zuckerberg woke up at 9:50 and rubbed his head: "Damn, I can't drink that much next time." ”
Thinking of Facebook last night, Mark Zuckerberg immediately walked in front of his computer.
The number jù on the computer page clearly shows that the number of registered users has reached 14,276, Mark Zuckerberg closed his eyes, and then looked at the computer again, and the number jù on the computer has changed again:
"14321, so fast!"
14324!
14325!
14328!
In less than ten seconds, the number has come to 14344, such a number of users growth is something Mark Zuckerberg did not expect at first, he thought that it would be good to have a thousand people in the morning, but he did not expect it to far exceed his expectations.
"Hey, this social networking site is really good. Brad Pitt, who was sitting in front of his computer and reading the news, saw the invitation message on his MSN account and went to Facebook.
After browsing, he was actually in the second place among the best male stars, and after understanding the rules, he also registered a user.
Unexpectedly, in just one hour, he received almost 100 followers, and there were many words of praise and blessings in his message area.
Jennifer Aniston, dressed in a white shirt, walked over: "Pete, what social networking site?"
"Facebook! a website that was just set up yesterday, looks pretty good, it's interesting, and it's going on a best person contest.
I also saw you in the female star competition. Now you're in 14th place. A very good ranking. Brad Pitt smiled and clicked on the best female star competition. At the top of the list is Britney Spears.
"And I can also publish my own status, it feels very fresh, it is really a website born under the idea of genius, and the only regret is that there are not many features. Brad Pitt said with a smile.
Mark Zuckerberg smiled with satisfaction as he watched the growing number of users, and suddenly remembered that yesterday Chen Tian took care of him as quickly as possible.
Looking at this growth rate, it is estimated that the server of 100,000 people will collapse in a few days.
"Chris, don't sleep! it's time for us to get to work!" Mark Zuckerberg immediately woke up his partner.
Dan Fellman sat down in front of the computer and looked at the time. Get ready to see how The Last Samurai, which premiered yesterday, at the box office.
Yesterday there was no competitive opponent, and by ten o'clock the page was finally refreshed.
"The Last Samurai" ranked first, but it only had a box office of 8.39 million.
Looking at this box office, Dan Fellman was depressed for a while, it is difficult to expect such a box office to exceed 100 million in North America, and if the overseas box office is good in the end, it is estimated that the cost will be recovered.
At this time, his MSN account prompted him that there was new news, and he clicked on it to see that it was the invitation link of the manager of the Warner Bros. department.
Dan Fellman thought it was news or announcements, but when he clicked on it, he saw that it was a social networking site, and what stood out was the best person selection event.
Watching it with curiosity, Dan Fellman soon threw away his troubles for a while in the pleasure of the competition.
At the same time, the number of registered users of Facebook is climbing. Especially on campus.
Clean and concise page without any ads. Simple yet innovative features.
Ordinary but can make people fall into the contrast activities, so that more and more people participate in it, crazy discussion.
"Man, do you know of a social networking site?"
"What social networking site?"
"Facebook, the selection is very good, a lot of beautiful women and handsome guys! and you can also add friends, find people from the same school and the same place.
You can also post your mood and status, and tell your friends at any time what you are doing and what you think.
You can also go to his page and leave a message to tell him what you want to say to him. ”
"Sounds great, I'll take a look at Facebook!"
This kind of conversation is generated in the chat of many people, Facebook through word-of-mouth and promotion from friends, and even more through Saturday, the rest day, the number of registered users is constantly increasing.
Soon it broke through 20,000 from 14,000 and then 30,000 again.
When the number of registrations exceeded 50,000, Mark Zuckerberg and his partner were out buying servers.
Chen Tian remembered that Facebook was officially launched in the early hours of yesterday morning.
After eating, Chen Tian sat down in front of the computer and logged on to the website.
His personal account was written during the test, and it belonged to the veteran account, and he quickly logged in.
He noticed that the opening speed of the web seemed to be a bit slow, which was not the case when he browsed the web before.
Chen Tian didn't care, but entered the competition, he separated Mark Zuckerberg just to be fair, after all, ordinary people and celebrities can't be compared.
Ordinary people can mobilize people's enthusiasm for participation, after all, there is still a big difference between ordinary people and celebrity public figures.
Clicking on his page, Chen Tian was surprised to find that the number of followers had reached 303, ranking fourth in the attention ranking.
Chen Tian logged out of his account and logged into the admin account that Mark Zuckerberg had given him.
As soon as he logged in, Chen Tian was shocked by the number of registered users.
The number of registered users has reached 77,654, and it is only 12:10 p.m., that is, since the official launch of the Facebook website at 12 p.m.
In just 12 hours, the number of registered users will reach 80,000.
This growth rate is terrifying, and Chen Tian clearly remembers that yesterday Mark Zuckerberg told him that his server can accommodate 100,000 people.
At this rate of growth, the server will crash very quickly.
Thinking of this, Chen Tian immediately took out his mobile phone and called Mark Zuckerberg.
"I think a set of 500,000 servers is enough. Chris Hughes said.
"One million, 500,000 is estimated to be not enough in half a year. Eduardo Saverin continued.
"I think a million is enough! When it's not enough, we'll change it, or a little more." It's better than less than enough. Isn't it?" Mark Zuckerberg said to Chris Hughes.
Just as he was about to explain the request to his boss. The phone rang.
"Hey, Justin, why are you calling me? Are you seeing results, and it's not bad? So give me a call to encourage me. Mark Zuckerberg said with a smile.
"Mark, I'm not in the mood to encourage you right now. ”
"Justin, what's wrong? I woke up in the morning with no problems. Mark Zuckerberg put away his smile and said that if something goes wrong with the site, that's his responsibility.
"Yes. There was a problem with the website, but it wasn't a technical problem, it was a server problem. ”
"Server problems?" asked Mark Zuckerberg, somewhat puzzled.
Chen Tian could hear Mark Zuckerberg's puzzlement in his tone, if he didn't read the count, he didn't know that registered users were so crazy.
Glancing at the computer screen, the number of people who had just been less than 78,000 had now exceeded 70,008, and now only a few minutes have passed.
"Do you know how many registered users there are now?"
"Ten thousand or twenty thousand?"
"It's more than 80,000, and more than 60,000 people are online at the same time.
So you have to change the server as fast as you can, I estimate that the web server will crash in another hour. ”
"Eighty thousand. Justin, are you sure you read that right?"
"Of course not! I'm not kidding!"
Listening to Chen Tian's tone, Mark Zuckerberg didn't dare to be careless: "I'm here on the server now." I'm in the process of buying a new server and I'll be back right away. ”
Saying that, he hung up the phone, and Mark Zuckerberg immediately signaled to his boss to ask for a set of servers that could accommodate 1 million people online at the same time.
The boss happily took the order and immediately arranged for delivery.
"Mark, what's wrong?" asked Chris Hughes.
"Did you know that we now have over 80,000 registered users on Facebook, and we're over 60,000 people online at the same time.
Justin called me and told me that I had to change the server immediately, or it would probably crash if it didn't last long. ”
"Eighty thousand, sixty thousand online at the same time?" Chris Hughes couldn't help but gasp.
At the beginning of its creation, he never imagined that it would take such a short time to reach such a scale.
He thought it would be possible in a week or two, but it was only twelve hours.
"We made it!" Mark Zuckerberg said with a smile as he looked up at the sky.
Sitting in front of the computer, Chen Tian knew that Mark Zuckerberg was buying servers, but the number of registered users and concurrent users continued to rise.
Chen Tian didn't do anything, just sat in front of the computer.
84334!
84422!
84678!
……
89354!
The numbers kept beating, and in just 15 minutes, the number of registered users exceeded 90,000 from 80,000, and the number of online users reached 71,000.
This increase in numbers is terrifying, and almost all college students in the Ivy League know about Facebook, and new users are starting to enter, and they are constantly recommending Facebook to others.
When the server arrived at Mark Zuckerberg's dormitory at 1 p.m., Chen Tian's heart was already lifted.
Because the number of registered users has exceeded 100,000, and the number of online users has exceeded 85,000 at the same time.
The whole Facebook page is also getting slower and slower, and once the number of people online exceeds 100,000, then the server will crash very quickly.
"Why is it so slow? A picture shows that my patience is running out for a long time!" Abel said with some depression.
After eating, he sat down in front of the computer and continued to participate in the competition, but the speed of the web page became slower and slower.
"The web page is too slow, is there too many people logging in together?" Alice, who is also on Facebook, also feels obvious.
As an administrator, Chen Tian can clearly feel it, especially when looking at the growing number of users and the number of people online at the same time.
Seeing that he was on the verge of collapse, Chen Tian decided to act as a real administrator.
Chen Tian used his administrator account to send a message to every registered user: "Because of everyone's enthusiasm, Facebook exceeded 100,000 registrations on the first day of freshmanship.
We didn't expect this to happen, the server couldn't keep up, the server replacement was in progress, and the service would be suspended for five minutes.
We will use our time to complete the update and relaunch a better and smoother page for everyone!"
"Oh, I'm going to suspend the service!shit!I'm looking at a beautiful woman, that Long Island girl is so nice just now!" Sean Green grumbled, and there was still a look of failure in the confession, and there was a happy smile on his face.
"Hey, Sean, are you happy now, is it because you have seen so many beautiful women, or is it because that slut from Sani Moore is now at the bottom of the list?" Stowe asked with a smile.
"What do you say, Stowe, of course, both!" said Sean Greene with a smile on his face.
Many people are complaining that Facebook is going to be shut down temporarily, and not only college students are in front of computers, but also more and more celebrities.
There are also some IT industry elites who participate out of curiosity.
When they saw the message notification from the administrator account, they were keenly observant and saw great business opportunities and potential.
Steve Jobs, Apple's president, was resting at this time and then preparing for an important meeting at 3 p.m.
However, there was a knock on his office door, and Steve Jobs sat up: "Please come in!"
"President, we have found a new social networking site, which is surprisingly popular. Rand handed the text to Steve Jobs.
Rand is the manager of the commercial department, and he also learned about Facebook after being reported by the employees below.
As the manager of Apple, his sense of smell was unquestionable, and he felt that it was an opportunity and immediately sorted out the numbers and reported to Jobs.
Steve Jobs took the clip, and in his opinion, the so-called popularity is not necessarily what it is.
However, when he opened the text folder, the first line of numbers shocked him.
"Rand?, you said that the number of registered people exceeded 100,000 in more than half a day after the station was opened, and the number of online users was approaching 100,000 at the same time, so the server had to be temporarily shut down?"
If it's really as the article says, and the number of jù and users is completely real, then the potential of this social networking site is terrifying.
"Yes, that's it. Rand replied earnestly.
"Is it true that a qiē number jù is true?"
Rand looked at Jobs: "Of course, every user registration must use real information, and must use a real name, otherwise it cannot be registered, so this qiē number jù is real."
Personally, I guess this social networking site will soon attract the attention of countless people, especially venture capitalists and other industry elites, who will not miss this site. ”
Steve Jobs didn't speak, because Rand's words were perfectly teamed, and no one would sit idly by and watch this crazy social networking site.
Faced with such a cake with infinite potential, he also had an idea.
"Rand, I'll leave this plan to you, contact them and see if we can buy it, we can accept it for 10 million to 100 million dollars!" Steve Jobs said after careful consideration.
After a while, there was a knock on the door of Google......'s president's office!