One day in March 1997, Mr. Moon, a department manager at Samsung in South Korea, was on a plane back to Seoul from a business trip in the United States, and he was reading a report from his colleague on his laptop. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is a presentation of images, text and mp3 music synthesis. When Moon took off his headphones after reading and found that the traveler next to him was listening to the MD, Moon was immediately inspired: if the MP3 music files on the computer could be directly taken out and played with an independent player, wouldn't that be the best music Walkman?

After returning to South Korea, he proposed the idea to the president at the time. Unfortunately, at that time, Samsung was in the process of organizational reorganization and did not have time to take care of Moon's development proposal.

Half a year later, the Asian financial turmoil hit Samsung greatly, and Moon was forced to leave Samsung. After leaving Samsung's head office, Moon joined Sehan as president and turned his idea into a reality at Sehan by launching the world's first MP3 player, the MPMANF10, in mid-1998.

Sehan did not have the strength to carry out large-scale promotion, and MPMANF10 used extremely expensive flash memory, so it quickly lost the battle with Japanese manufacturers Workman and MD.

At this time, on portable music players, Japanese manufacturers seem so powerful and unbreakable.

Sehan changed its competitive strategy and launched large-scale licensing around the world in an effort to defeat the WORKMAN and MD camps of Japanese manufacturers.

At the end of 1998, Umbrella Computer Technology Co., Ltd. obtained the license to use the technology of Sehan Corporation for the production of MP3.

According to the domestic patent protection situation at this time, it is okay to obtain authorization for production and sales.

But at this time, flash memory is extremely expensive, the price of 32M flash memory components is as high as 69 US dollars, the domestic market of MP3 is still very small, before the price of flash memory drops significantly, it is mainly exported to Europe and the United States.

Before Sehan's patent was granted, the umbrella computer was granted the right to use the technology for 20 years at a very low cost—and the patent expired after 20 years.

Generally, being authorized does not mean that it can be produced immediately, and Chen Fan's application for the U disk patent, the MP3 patent is just a product concept, and the actual manufacturing technology needs to be developed by itself, and this authorization also includes the manufacturing technology of MPMANF10.

This has greatly accelerated the research and development of USB flash drive technology for umbrella computers.

In fact, the USB flash drive has not been patented before, but it is just a blind spot in people's vision.

The MP3 player can be said to completely include the technology of the USB flash drive, and the MP3 player also includes the technology of accessing files on the flash memory through the USB interface, but with more audio decoding and playback functions.

However, the fact that there are many technical conditions in the field of patents does not mean that they are superior, but rather that they are at a disadvantage.

For example, the MP3 player patent contains four technical conditions: A, B, C, and D, while the U disk patent contains two technical conditions: A and B. If the patent application of the USB flash drive is earlier than the MP3 player, then the MP3 player is considered a derivative patent of the USB flash drive, and the patent authorization of the USB flash drive needs to be obtained.

Sehan applied for a patent for an MP3 player in '97, which was earlier than the patent application for the Umbrella's USB flash drive, so there was no need to pay for the patent for the patent of "Flash Electronic External Storage Method for Data Processing System and Its Apparatus", but his MPMANF10 manufacturing technology was of great help to Umbrella to improve the USB flash drive production technology that he was studying.

At the end of 1998, Umbrella Computer signed a cooperation agreement with Sehan to pay a one-time licensing fee of US$2 million, and Sehan sent engineers to guide Umbrella to conduct manufacturing technology research and development.

At the same time, the American company Imperial Alliance launched the RIOPMP300 at the end of 1998, the first MP3 player to impress the world, and the 32M flash version cost $190.

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At the end of 1998, under the influence of the Guardian Internet café management system, Jisheng Studio launched the Wanxiang network management system in advance.

The hastily launched Wanxiang is not yet mature, and the deep company used the channel of federated software to buy a set of Wanxiang network management system research, and found that there are many loopholes in this system, and even simply use the input method that comes with the Windows system to bypass the charging system and close the client program of Wanxiang.

Originally, Jisheng Studio would not establish a formal company until a few years later, and the Wanxiang network management system was gradually improved after the 2004 version.

However, the butterfly effect brought by Chen Fan is slowly becoming obvious, and the newly established Sina has just completed its first financing and announced that it will inject capital into Jisheng Studio and enter the market of Internet café management software.

Before that, a young man named Zhou Qihu discovered the secret of the Guardian system, and he felt that the process guardian technology of the Guardian Internet Café Management System was very convenient for promoting software.

Zhou Qihu resigned as the general manager of the business department of Founder Group and established Yanjing 3721 Technology Co., Ltd.

At the end of 1998, Yanjing 3721 Technology Co., Ltd. launched an online real-name Chinese Internet service, which began to threaten the "hao123" website navigation that was being quietly promoted.

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On December 31, 1998, Chen Fan got the news that Sina invested in Jisheng Studio and 3721 appeared in advance at the same time, and felt extremely headache.

Sina itself has strong technical strength, and its meddling in the Internet café management market will certainly not be as porous for a long time as it used to be. And the appearance of Zhou Qihu gave him a headache, no one knew at this time that Zhou Qihu, who was later called the "red-clothed leader", would bring huge waves to China's Internet industry.

3721 is Zhou Qihu's first product, the originator of domestic rogue software, and the "red-clothed leader" Zhou Qihu's rogue methods are endless and unguardable!

3721 and 360, which was later founded by Zhou Qihu, are both top masters in the Internet "rogue world".

Although after the "3Q incident", Zhou Qihu and his 360 company slowly changed their ways, and 360's products slowly moved away from hooligan methods, but the previous red-clothed leader was famous for his unscrupulous image of a spoiler.

"No scruples" is not an exaggeration to describe the 3721 Internet assistant!

The 3721 itself is a good product with good functions, but its extremely effective promotion methods, rogue residency methods, cross-repair anti-uninstall protection mechanism, omni-use automatic loading, interference and rejection of competitors, and the resulting large consumption of system resources lead to stuttering, blue screen and other problems emerge in an endless stream.

After 20 years of dreaming, until now, Chen Fan is also deeply impressed by the various bundlings of 3721, forced repeated pop-ups, and even the use of browser vulnerabilities to secretly install a web page without realizing it, as well as the difficulty of uninstalling that requires the expertise of IT personnel to fight wits and courage with him.

If the Guardian Internet café management system only uses "rogue" means to protect itself so that the Internet café charges will not have loopholes and is not aggressive, then 3721 fully has the characteristics of a computer virus Trojan, and it is completely beyond the general virus Trojan at the technical level.

Zhou Qihu can be said to have opened an era of the domestic Internet, an era of "collective hooliganism".

Just like bad money drives out good money, in the years when 3721 played hooligans, Internet companies that didn't play hooligans simply couldn't survive!

Even if he is a reborn person, Chen Fan will feel a headache in the face of such a rogue competitor......