According to the successful experience of the Internet in the previous life, in the initial stage of the Internet, the only thing that can bring stable income is Internet advertising.

Later, due to the emergence of search engines, new forms of advertising such as PPC were also created and invented. It's like a mess like Putian Hospital.

But there is a problem here, there must be a huge number of Internet users, and there must be a huge amount of traffic to have advertising fees?

Otherwise, no one will come to see it, and who will come and advertise? Since there are currently millions of Internet users in the world, Internet traffic is inherently limited.

So through advertising fees? There will be a little, but it's better than nothing. To put it mildly, the advertising expenses earned are not as much as the cost of renting a server.

In fact, the original Internet companies, they have not found a mature profit model. Many are on the verge of bankruptcy.

In the end, one of these enterprises is Monternet, that is, value-added services such as MMS and CRBT; The other one is the game!

However, now GSM has not yet been connected to the Internet, and even SMS has just been invented, so there is no need to say any mobile phone value-added services, and the hardware conditions do not exist at all.

As for the game? Now the game on PC ...... It's the same as no game. In addition to the puzzle games of solitaire, there are only a few text games left.

Like what

"Walk 50 meters east and pick up 15 gold coins",

"I met the little witch to the west, was captured back to the Magic Mountain, and was together for 20 days without shame or impatience...... To be honest, the game experience is not very good, but because this period is a desert of computer games, there are still many people playing it.

Left behind many wonderful ancient memories. The key is that the hardware does not meet the requirements. It's really not as good as Nintendo and PS consoles - simply make professional game consoles.

Later, even Microsoft was not optimistic, and they launched their own Xbox console.

You know, the game is particularly important for the configuration of the computer. According to the existing computer hardware conditions, if you want everything, then you can't do anything well, and it is better to have a single-function game console.

But in any case, Li Yuan is very familiar with the future direction of Internet development. There is no need to develop a search engine, that is, burning money and making free contributions.

Those hardware conditions cannot be met, again, it is not necessary; Which ones are more sensitive and less necessary...... With such a cut, the only thing left is the PC game.

Since the configuration of the computer can't be improved, can we make some simple games? The one assigned to the parallel line is the parallel line community, that is, the Internet community.

Actually, it's a hodgepodge. Added like free email mailbox; Parallel Line Home Page. Mainly to provide parallel line services, supplemented by the latest hot news; BBS Forum.

It is divided into major sectors such as news, sports, entertainment, and life. Different from the doctrine of domestic news, foreign news quotations need to be charged.

So here is dominated by hot rankings and hot discussions. is to save money as much as possible and encourage sand withering netizens to post enthusiastically; And, of course, there's the vegetable stealing game at the end.

The attraction of stealing vegetables to netizens, there is no need to talk about this, right? So, first of all, it's for Martin to have something to do.

The topic of the Internet community is so large that it is okay to arbitrarily go to them. Anyway, that's a lot of emphasis on technology development, right?

But in reality, it's nothing more than finding a dozen or so program apes, and there is no technical difficulty in these contents.

There is also no place to burn money at all. In addition, you can have enough traffic. And in the parallel line community, there will be many open interfaces.

In the future, whether it is the development of social software, e-commerce software, or the development of game software, audio and video software, etc., it can be easily linked with the parallel community.

Even taxi hailing software, food delivery software, and ticket booking software ...... can also be integrated into the parallel line community.

In terms of the arrangement of parallel lines, the priority is the game project development department. As for choosing the first game project - Dandelion vs. Zombies!

cough cough cough cough ...... All right! As long as you hear the name, you should know what this game is.

It is nothing more than an adaptation of the later phenomenal game Plants vs. Zombies. From the perspective of game development, this kind of game is relatively simple, and the graphics requirements are not high, and it can be run on PCs of this period.

And there are no game development talents in China at all. So Li Yuan found more than 20 college graduates, which can be regarded as slowly cultivating a game production team from easy to difficult!

Oh! In this team, Li Yuan also found three ...... from Beiwu Artistic talents! It's kind of a stimulant for those program apes.

For this "Dandelion vs. Zombies", Li Yuan has no budget requirements, nor does he have time limit requirements.

It doesn't matter if you fail, it's like accumulating some experience. Anyway, that's it, at present, it's low-key and obscene, so let's use Netscape as a battery to attract firepower............ Due to the short time that the parallel line has been established, the internal relationship of the company is still relatively simple, and it is basically a word.

Since Li Yuan decided to develop obscenely, the others began to carry it out to the letter. The first is to put a few patches on the browser, and it can't be too far behind the Netscape browser.

The second is to reduce the price of the browser, which is significantly lower than Netscape Browser. However, in the eyes of the outside world, this situation is obviously some kind of weakness.

And this show of weakness has made Silicon Valley and the media ignore the parallel lines. Now that the noise war is already in full swing, and almost all the high-tech companies in Silicon Valley have joined in, who cares about a nobody?

As a result, sales in the computer IT industry continue to soar. Netscape Browser's market share has reached 65%, that is, about two-thirds, and Wall Street's valuation has exceeded $200 million in one fell swoop?

Netscape's magical performance shocked the nation once again. How long has it been? Netscape's value has risen by another $100 million?

Everyone is unsettled, and even the market is going crazy. No matter what kind of stock it is, as long as it is stained with the slightest concept of the Internet, it will immediately skyrocket?

Or even a violation of many traditional investment philosophies? Netscape has also entered the NASDAQ listing schedule, and it is scheduled to be officially launched in March next year!

And according to Wall Street's latest market outlook analysis, if Netscape can maintain its current growth rate, it is very likely that the total market capitalization will exceed $1 billion by the time it goes public!

it! How many companies in the United States can have a total market capitalization of $1 billion? Netscape can easily do it?

And from the beginning of the establishment, by the time it was listed, only ten months had passed, right? From scratch!

From 0 to 1 billion! Such a miracle has turned the whole of America into a piece. However, in the midst of such a carnival, someone finally noticed that something was wrong...... Byron was a young reporter for the Los Angeles Times.

Because Netscape has become the most beautiful boy in the United States, every day is overwhelmingly reported, so Byron was arranged by the editor-in-chief to sort out the information of Netscape.

But one night, Byron saw that the documents were all over the place

"Netscape has the largest market share in the browser market",

"Netscape already accounts for 65% of the browser market...... Byron had a flash of inspiration - what about the remaining 35%?

Why have you never heard of it? Curious, Byron immediately began to get to the bottom of it. One thing to say, the market statistics in the United States are quite mature and perfect, and most of them are open to the public.

It didn't take much effort for Byron to find out that the second place is a company called Parallel Line Network Technology, and its Parallel Line Browser also accounts for 31% of the browser market share?

What's even more interesting is that this parallel line is actually a local company born and raised in Los Angeles? You must know that although Silicon Valley and Los Angeles belong to the same California, Silicon Valley belongs to the San Francisco area and has nothing to do with Los Angeles.

And many high-tech companies in the United States, such as Microsoft, and Amazon and other high-tech companies that will be established in the future, have all moved to Seattle, Washington?

it! Los Angeles has always boasted of being the largest city in the United States, that is, the largest city in the world, and they don't even look down on the Big Apple.

Although the Los Angeles Times is one of the most influential newspapers in the United States. However, these newspapers and magazines in the United States generally have a strong regional character.

In addition to ...... Playboy. Ahem. And the Los Angeles Times news, of course, will be biased towards Los Angeles.

mmp！ We also have a high-tech company with browsers in Los Angeles, and the rest of you media only know how to tout Netscape and turn a blind eye to our business?

Are they all blind? Byron was immediately excited, and there should be a lot of news to be unearthed here.

So Byron began to dig deeper into the parallel, and the results surprised him - the parallel was not unknown at all.

At least many users on the Internet know that this company is

"The King of the Homepage"! In this era, high-tech companies want to advertise and expand their reach, mainly through traditional media.

That is, advertising on television and newspapers. However, in order to save money, to be low-key, and because of the concept left by Li Yuan in his previous life, they never advertise in traditional media, but just send spam in groups.

Therefore, the social influence is very small, almost obscure, and outsiders basically don't know about it; But it has a great reputation in the small circle of the Internet, at least

"The King of the Homepage". As the digging deepened, Byron was surprised to discover: Lie down! The founder of the parallel line is a Chinese named Lee; Lie down!

The computer disease of "Yan Na What Shoots Dandelion" was developed by this Lee; Lie down! He also once developed a detection program, and he was credited with the sensational 5 billion banks in the United States; Lie down!

Li actually has his own film and television company, and has invested in several Hollywood films; Lie down! Lee is also the owner of a listed company in Hong Kong; Lie down!

He is actually Chinese, not us Americans; Lie down! He turned out to be a historian and published a controversial military bestseller; Lie down!

Li was only about 20 years old, did not go to university, and was originally a poor farmer in Chinese mainland; Lie down!

Lee actually has a trading company to purchase our American ...... God's special chicken feet ......? Byron felt a little dizzy, what the hell is this?

But then, he became excited, isn't this a treasure boy? Can you definitely dig up big news?

Without the slightest hesitation, Byron took his camera and hurried to the headquarters of the parallel line. However, when Byron got out of the car in front of the small building, he couldn't help but be startled by the scene in front of him.

I saw that the door of the small building was crowded with people, and a black fat aunt was holding a whip, and her mouth was constantly foul language, so that the group of people honestly obeyed the order...... After Byron took a few photos, he hurriedly squeezed in front of Aunt Black.

But before Byron could speak, Aunt Black glared: "Fakyou!" Where did the little bastard come from? Line up at the back to go. Otherwise, you will be deducted $100! Byron hurriedly pulled out his press card: "Sorry, I'm a reporter for the Los Angeles Times." I'd like to interview you Parallel Line Company. Is your boss here? As soon as she heard that it was a reporter, the fat aunt hurriedly showed a smile: "You can go inside and find someone named Martin, and now he is in charge here." These little bastards are too unspeakable. If I hadn't given birth to eight children and had a lot of experience in cleaning up children, how would they be honest and obedient. Byron was a little surprised: "Ma'am, why are there so many people here?" What do they do? The fat aunt smiled and said: "It's the company that outsources the business to them, like the homepage or something, I don't know much about it." They get a few hundred dollars for completing an order. See that person? You've already received more than a dozen of them this month......" Byron was even more confused: "Are you here parallel line network technology?" ”

"That's right! It's a parallel line. ”

"Aren't you browser-solving?"

"Browsers? What's that? I don't know, you better ask Martin inside! ”

"Martin? And what about your boss Lee? ”

"I haven't seen it, and I'm new here. It was because of the chaos here that Mr. Horion found me. I'm the only one who can make these little cubs obedient. Ha ha! ”

"......" Byron felt that he was listening to the clouds, and he couldn't help but be more interested. Under the guidance of the fat aunt, Byron finally entered the small building and saw the young man surrounded by a group of people.

According to the person next to him, this young man is Martin......