Chapter 160: The Frontrunner

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IN 1994, AS Chinese CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET NETWORK AND SENT OUT THEIR FIRST E-MAILS. China has officially been recognized by the international community as entering the Internet age.

But judging from the actual situation, the Internet is still far from ordinary people, after all, at this stage, the Internet is only in the hands of a few people, in China, specifically. The application of Internet technology is limited to a small number of elites in Tsinghua Park and the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Fan disease-free company. IT HAS LONG BEEN CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET NETWORK. However, it is not through a domestic line. Instead, he reached an agreement with the United States through his own satellite. It's not just fast. Resources are also relatively abundant. HOWEVER, DOMESTIC EXPERTS DO NOT HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE INTERNET, AND MOST PEOPLE ONLY USE IT AS A NEW WAY OF COMMUNICATION TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD. It's like a telephone, a fax, or something like that.

If there are no uncertainties. DOMESTIC PRIVATE APPLICATIONS FOR THE INTERNET. It should not start until two years later, led by Yinghaiwei, China's Internet application pioneers. We will guide Chinese into a new era of the Internet with full enthusiasm.

Fan Wuxian still remembers a huge billboard set up in Zhongguancun, Beijing, which clearly reads. How far are the Chinese from the information superhighway - 1500 to the north. This billboard became one of the most watched commercial events in China that year, and at the same time, it also made Inviv and its founder Zhang Shuxin the focus of the year.

It's just that when Yinghaiwei started its business. FAN WUZHI IS STILL MESSING AROUND ON THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, AND THE ECONOMIC SITUATION OF WANGTIANDI IS ONLY RELATIVELY LOW AMONG THE PROVINCES IN THE COUNTRY, AND EVEN IN THE PROVINCIAL CAPITAL, THE COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO STUDIED COMPUTER SCIENCE AT THAT TIME DID NOT HAVE MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO GET IN TOUCH WITH PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS, LET ALONE UNDERSTAND THE NEW THING SUCH AS THE INTERNET.

THE FIRST TIME I HEARD THE TERM INTERNET WAS WHEN THE HEAD OF THEIR DEPARTMENT CAME BACK FROM THE UNITED STATES. Translated a book about the information superhighway in the United States, and only mentioned the land when it was sold to them. Although the mouth of the head of the department who would come out of his mouth from time to time was a little crooked. It will gradually come into our local life.

At this time, when Fan Wuxi recalled the head of the department, he still had a slight impression. And the one thing he remembers most clearly is when he was doing his homework. It is to design a website using HTML language code. At that time, the students in the class felt a little crazy, because they didn't know what to do. In the end, Fan Wuxian made a relatively beautiful website out, and there was a simple database operation. and counters and other application plug-ins that were more popular at the time, so this website became a template for everyone.

Although the design is a bit of a barrier. But everyone's enthusiasm for copying is still very high, and it doesn't take much effort at all, just change the name to use it.

FROM THE INTERNET TO CHINA, TO THE PRIVATE APPLICATION. Ten of them have passed in the middle of two years, which is certainly related to the high cost of the Internet, but from the root cause. Or is it because the promotion and publicity efforts can't keep up.

Few people on the government side understand the significance of the Internet, and at the level of academics. They are simply keen to take advanced means of contact into their own hands to show their unique nature. Little is known about the changes that the Internet can bring to people's lives. Or maybe you don't want to think about this place at all.

Fan Wuxian knows. By next year. The U.S. Geo-Information Highway project will be fully completed. And Americans will also enter the Internet era from then on. As a result, countless new economic industries have been born, countless multimillionaires, billionaires, and countless high-tech industries and information industries have been born.

CHINA'S INTERNET IS NOW JUST STARTING FROM SCRATCH. There is no practical application. Although the construction of expressways is also in full swing in China, it is not an information superhighway, but a reinforced concrete expressway between cities. This is a stage. Developed countries have experienced this decades ago.

The gap is very large, but the market space is also very large, and no industry can make its influence unparalleled. Fan Wuxian licked his lips. He found himself in a business where he could operate again.

Countless cases in the history of world business can prove that the first entrant in the industry may not be the one who persists until the final victory, and he plays the role of an enlightener at the same time. Be a pioneer too.

As the saying goes, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and the front waves die on the beach, if you want to think about the pioneers who were trampled to death by the back waves, you have to think carefully about where the principle of doing this is. Where is the bottom line and where is the profit point?

At that time, Hellway was the first Internet company in China. Whether it's the business they're in or the company itself. To the outside world, they are all outliers, and their profit model is that users pay a certain fee to Inseaway, that is, they can connect their computers to the Internet, chat online, send and receive e-mails, and read electronic newspapers.

This is the same as AOL's local business model, except that AOL did not have to face direct competition from other giants in the industry at the time. In China, however, there is a giant company called China Telecom. However, at that time, it was not aware of the market prospects for Internet access services. Therefore, Yinghaiwei has not yet set foot in this field before China Telecom. On the one hand, it acts as a pioneer in the market. On the other hand, it also experienced a brief period of glory.

Inseaway has taken the lead in launching the Internet enlightenment movement in China, acting as a leader in China's Internet. At that time, no one could have imagined that a few years later, when Inhiveway would become a historical term. The Internet Enlightenment that he advocated was inherited. China surpassed the United States as the country with the largest number of Internet users.

But the gap between China and the United States is too great. Just as the employees of Inseaway explained to the public the difference between the Internet and the Interna-Schonel. Yahoo Inc. has been listed on the NASDAQ stock market with the concept of Internet land. On the day of listing, the market value reached more than $800 million.

What exactly can the Internet do? What can it bring to society? This is one thing that Infosea Vision must try to explain to the public and the relevant regulatory authorities.

What does the Internet mean? Is it media, communications or information technology? Who is in charge of this industry. Telecom industry management? Or is it a media tube? These were very vague at the time. Even the pioneers were a little unclear.

Of course, there are more opportunities for the first mover in the market, and just when everything was going very smoothly for Infohighway, China Telecom, which realized the importance of Internet access services, suddenly began to set foot in this field. China Telecom has significantly reduced the cost of Internet access. As a result, Yinghaiwei incurred huge losses and lost a large number of users, and then began to lay off employees and gradually faded out of the public eye.

The car in front is overturned, and the car behind is a lesson.

Before Fan Wuxian started to get involved in the Internet industry. It is necessary to solve these problems, and to have independent communication lines and absolute control over these communication lines, so that you can't rely on telecommunication lines, and if you do it, you just work for others.

However, if you do not use existing communication lines, you will have to use fiber-optic communication equipment, which is much more expensive.

But Fan Wuxian also thought about it, although the cost of using optical cable lines and optical communication equipment to intervene in the Internet is higher. But I undoubtedly am. It has been used to bypass the monopoly of telecommunications. Plus in their own business. There are existing enterprises that produce optical cables. There are also enterprises specializing in the development and production of communication equipment, as well as a large number of relevant technical personnel, who want to set up an Internet service provider company. Yes, the conditions are met.

The main thing that needs to be done now is to get rid of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, or bypass them. Obtain the license of your own company to carry out Internet business in the mainland. For this point, Fan Wuxian is more confident.

After all, the domestic Internet has not yet taken shape, and everyone does not understand this thing. It is entirely possible to persuade the government to agree to become the first ISP in China by sacrificing some interests of other parties. With its own strong financial strength. As well as a full understanding of the Internet, it is easy to gain a firm foothold, and then promote it nationwide, bigger and stronger.

If he is both an ISP and an ICP, I am afraid that few Internet companies will be able to surpass him, and Fan Wuxian can completely control the domestic Internet industry in his own hands, which is quite a terrible thing.

But in order to do it. Fan Wuxian now has to make a little sacrifice and back down in some places. Fortunately, his future father-in-law suddenly appeared in the rare earth industry. This thing can be borrowed and put to use.

So Fan Wuzhi issued an order to his subordinate rare earth complex, starting from now on, no longer sell products to the outside world, and all products will enter the inventory. Make strategic reserves.

As soon as this news came out, the entire industry was in an uproar. Fan Wuxian decided so. It is equivalent to his own money to feed all the employees of the rare earth complex. How much does that cost?!

And Shen Peiming and other local companies, the only ones who can form competitiveness with Fan without disease, are also surprised. I don't understand why Fan Wuxi made such an uncool decision? In this way, there will be no competitors for your company, and there will be a huge increase in price.

"My son-in-law does things. How is it so unexpected? After Shen Peiming learned the news, he felt a little confused.

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