September 24, 1997, Beijing.

On this day, the sky in the capital was clear.

In the Asian Games Village, there was an atmosphere of joy.

On the walls of apartment buildings, a row of neon lights from top to bottom outline the text.

"Beijing Soxin Network Technology Co., Ltd."

On the roof of the building, there are three big characters "search information network".

You can see it at a glance from more than ten miles away.

In the chairman's office on the ninth floor, with a sound of "search online online", Lu Changhua's fingers pressed the enter key.

The homepage of "Soxin.com" popped up on the surrounding computers.

There was a thunderous applause in the office.

Soxin.com was officially launched.

At the same time, all major news media across the country have publicly reported that the first portal in China has been launched.

At this time, the website of a certain easy is still in the test.

The news broadcast that night also broadcast the content of the online search network.

Many curious netizens landed on the website.

I was immediately attracted to the content.

Many people think to themselves, if I can see the news every day, wouldn't I still be able to save money to buy newspapers?!

Lu Changhua and Wang Yao looked at the background data.

In just one hour after its launch, more than 10,000 IPs were logged in.

Two hours later, the number of landings exceeded 50,000.

The number of registered users of chat rooms has increased exponentially.

In the registration column, Lu Changhua added a phone item, and the requirement was to fill in the mobile phone number.

This one keeps out those who don't have a mobile phone.

It's not that people who don't have a mobile phone can't chat, but they don't have all the features they use.

For example, the mobile phone number was not filled in when registering. He can only be an ordinary tourist, he can't buy props, he can't give gifts to others.

At the same time, he could not accept gifts from others.

It's still okay to chat in the chat room.

For a while, the chat room was overcrowded.

When you stay in the chat room for ten minutes, a message will pop up reminding you that you can buy a gift for your loved one.

On that day, more than a thousand chat rooms were created.

At least 40,000 people chatted in the chat room.

When you click on the button to give a gift, you will be prompted, for example, please register a mobile phone number, for example, please buy a point card.

When the point card purchase button is pressed, the nearest point card purchase point will pop up.

Now it just shows "Point card purchase point investment, so stay tuned." ”

If you press the click card merchant button, a dialog box will pop up.

You can leave a message directly, and someone will contact you.

People who have a sense of business opportunities are leaving messages at the first time.

Someone left a phone, someone left an address.

The people of the investment promotion department of the point card pay special attention to this information.

Soon they were able to arrange for someone to contact the commenters.

Point cards are supplied at a 10% discount.

According to the provincial generation, the municipal generation is going to such a model.

The provincial generation is nine percent off, and the city generation is ninety-five percent off.

Retail sales are sold at the original price.

The point card is printed in the capital.

The passwords for these point cards are automatically generated by the platform system.

A PIN is then printed on each card.

Swipe a silver-gray coloring on the password.

Just cut the coating and you can see the password.

The consumer enters the password into the recharge slot.

Then the system will automatically recognize the amount of convenience carried by this string of passwords.

The point card is divided into four levels: 5 yuan, 10 yuan, 20 yuan, and 50 yuan.

The password is different for different amounts.

In mid-October, the first batch of point cards were released across the country.

The total amount is worth 1 million yuan.

Lu Changhua bought a point card of 50 yuan and sent it into the recharge port of his account.

There are 50 dollars in the account.

Check them out one by one in the gift slot.

There are no less than thirty kinds of reasons, including one cent, two pieces, and five pieces and ten pieces.

This is now a luxury.

He bought ten flowers and gave them to Wang Yao, who was far away in Bac Ninh.

The two are in the same chat room.

As soon as he sent it out, there was a rain of flowers in the chat room.

What floated through the screen was a sentence.

"Wow~ The Hussar General of the Northern Kingdom gave Spring Flowers and Ten Flowers to Autumn Moon, and the favorability of the two of you has increased by ten points."

Wang Yao, who was opposite, saw that her husband had sent flowers to her, and she was not to be outdone, and hurriedly gave him a pair of sunglasses.

"Wow~ Spring Flower Autumn Moon gave the Northern Hussar General a pair of sunglasses! Increases your friendship by 10 points. ”

"Ding Dong, the two of them are friends~"

Lu Changhua's avatar soon put on sunglasses, and he was even more chic and elegant.

Such demonstrations quickly unfolded in various chat rooms.

Many people run to buy some cards, both curious and hard-willed.

And showing off in front of imaginary beauties.

Whatever the reason is, anyway.

The 1 million point cards were sold out within a week.

The sellers of the point cards in various places asked for the goods again, and the amount was no longer 1 million, but 8 million.

Lu Changhua dived in the chat room and found that there were still many problems.

For example, people who are soaking in a chat room want to pass the time by waiting for someone or chatting in between waiting for someone.

But chat rooms and news are isolated.

If you want to watch the news, you have to leave the chat room, and if you want to chat, you have to leave the news channel.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could get through and watch the news while chatting?!

It's like chatting with friends in a café and reading a newspaper at the same time.

This opinion caused a headache for the people in the technical department.

Lu Changhua proposed the concept of floating windows.

As soon as you click on the news, at the bottom of the screen, there will be buttons for other channels, and if you press the chat room, the chat room will pop up a pop window.

Once clicked in, the news bar will turn into a floating window.

The size of the floating window can be set by yourself.

This allows you to do several things at the same time.

So what about clicking into the mail system at this time?

The same is true for floating windows.

It's no better than going back to the homepage to look for it.

Lu Changhua stayed in the capital for several months.

Now the capital is already cold, and it has snowed heavily in the northeast.

But that still doesn't stop people's enthusiasm for chat rooms.

Even Wang Lu, who was far away, got in touch with her sister through the chat room.

One person thought of using it in this way, and it was a hundred followers.

Those who studied abroad and worked part-time learned that they would be able to talk to their families without having to make international calls.

For a time, the number of visits to Soxin.com skyrocketed.

After the improvement of the search network, his floating window effect is very good.

But here's another problem.

Many people can't hang up on the search network all day long.

People need to work.

If there is still a website hanging up at work, the boss is not happy.

In addition, people who chat very well in the chat room always want to get rid of outsiders and talk alone.

This made Lu Changhua think of making a separate small software.

That is, the transformed little penguin of the future.

As long as the customer installs this app, the friend in the chat room will automatically appear in his friends bar.

They'll be able to chat individually.

At the same time, if you want to enter the chat room, you will enter it as soon as you click it.

The point cards that are punched in the chat room can also be used here, and the point cards that are punched here can also be used in the chat room.

At the same time, through this small search, photos can also be passed to each other, and documents can also be transferred.

It's not difficult to write this software, it's the ideas that matter.

At this time, most units or individuals use 64k dial-up Internet access to the Internet.

All phone lines are used.

At this time, the pictures are very small and the definition is not high.

The speed of transferring files is slow.

Some file transfers take several hours, or even longer.

Wang Lu also knew about this situation, and she came up with the idea of a continuation function.

Due to the limitations of domestic network conditions, many files will be broken in the middle of wearing.

If you can have the function of resuming the transmission, you can connect it again after the connection is disconnected and continue to transmit, which is much more convenient.

The solution is the transit station solution.

A to B to transfer files.

On the surface, A is directly transmitted to B, but it is not.

A transmission is first transmitted to the system's server, and then the server is delivered to B.

In between, if wires, the server stores the file fragments.

After connecting again, A continues to upload the remaining parts, and then the server delivers them to B.

Her idea was an eye-opener for the people in the technical department.

Quickly wrote out this continuation technology.

It has been verified in practice and the effect is very good.

Not only is the transfer speed much faster, but it also saves a lot of trouble.

In the months since the launch of Soxin.com, it has been continuously revised and updated with a lot of content.

This made many netizens agree with the attitude of Soxin.com.

Not only if, Soxin.com also put forward a slogan, Soxin.com is the Internet.

This has made many companies that consider themselves Internet pioneers very dissatisfied.

Info High Way is one of them.

Actually, they also have a website.

It's just that their focus isn't on the content of the site.

It's about internet access.

For example, enterprises or individuals that access the Internet through Infohigh SV must use Infohighway's browser and port software, otherwise they will not be able to access the Internet.

No matter what browser you use, you can log in.

At this time, what was lacking in China's Internet was content and form.

That's exactly what Soxin.com provides.

The important thing is that his monetization model is not the advertising model of other companies, but the monetization in amusement.

Chat room prop mini-game, which will increase the concentration of gifts every month.

Not only does the gift look good, but it also increases the level.

As soon as high-level people enter the chat room, they will be notified on the screen, and the big brother and sister of so-and-so have come in, everyone is welcome.

This fully satisfies the vanity of these people.

For example, if he is equipped with horses, it means "how many ranks of so-and-so big brother, what kind of horse did so-and-so ride, and entered the chat room".

There is also an animation of someone galloping on a horseback on the screen, which is the envy of the whole chat room.

Of course, the animations of driving sedans and sports cars are even cooler.

Just ask you, do you want to recruit people like this?

Needless to say?

Who doesn't want to be awesome?

Coupled with the vanity of some female netizens, they boasted and patted male netizens for a while.

At this time, netizens are still very immature, where can they withstand such praise, and buying higher-level props has become their goal.

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As for Lu Changhua, at this time, he and Wang Yao couldn't count the money for a long time.

In just a few months after it was launched, the website realized more than 10 million yuan through point cards.