In the business of customizing homepages, although most of the template customization has gradually moved to Parallel Line (China), there are still many businesses that remain in the United States. After all, some orders will have various special requirements, and there is no Internet in China, so it is impossible to communicate with customers.

There is also the review after the order is completed, paid on-site installation and some other after-sales services. This needs to be done locally in the United States.

With the soaring business volume, more than 3,000 orders have been received every week, and the monthly orders have already exceeded 10,000! Therefore, instead of decreasing, the number of outsourcing guys here is becoming more and more.

Martin, in particular, has been tossed and burned.

With the help of security guards and staff, Martin finally broke through. Seeing that Erna was snickering on the side, Martin couldn't help but complain: "Elna, aren't you just here to help?" ”

Erna rolled her eyes, "That's your job." Please, didn't see our sisters were busy too. ”

"Fakyu! It is better to outsource to other companies. Why isn't there any other company willing to customize your homepage? ”

"Hehe, do you think they're idiots? Our offer is already low, how much can they earn? And even the stupid donkey knows that the custom homepage will be completed sooner or later, and the lively ones are the last one or two years. That's why our boss chose to outsource, and didn't listen to the advice of your idiot and blindly recruited employees. ”

"Elna, that villain Lee is not here, do you need to make a fool of yourself all the time?"

"That's what I'm really saying. That's why he's the boss, and you're a humble worker. ”

"Hell, why does God always favor villains like Lee?"

"Hehe, even if he is a villain, his charm is 100 times stronger than yours!"

"Fakyu! Soul! ”

“……”

While the two were talking and laughing, Byron came over with a stitch: "Hello! I'm sorry to hear your conversation, but by 'villain', are you referring to Lee, the founder of Parallels? Sorry, but I'm Byron, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. ”

Facing the reporter, Martin and Erna immediately changed to smiling faces.

Erna took the initiative to cover up: "Mr. Byron, that's our nickname for the boss." It's like a family within our company......"

And Martin couldn't hold it back, and he said excitedly in Elna's surprised gaze: "The villain is Lee's screen name on BBS." I don't know if you know that dandelion computer is alone? That's what the villain Lee did. And he's got a super stinky mouth. Many of our friends on the internet want to beat him up! ”

Seeing that Martin was getting more and more excited, Erna blinked, and she took the initiative to start putting out the fire: "Hehe. Don't get me wrong, Mr. Byron, it's a fight between friends......"

But Martin was already open-mouthed: "Stupid villain! That's what we really say about Lee! He doesn't pay attention to innovation, he doesn't pay attention to technology development, and he knows what to do? So that son of a bitch, go die! Fakyu! ……”

In fact, Martin hasn't put himself in the right place yet. He still has the common problem of programmed apes in this period - he thinks that everyone is a good brother and friend who sits on an equal footing and starts a business together. It seems cool to feel full of swear words!

However, hearing these trash words, Erna felt a wave of tiredness. Why are they all pig players, I can't take my wife at all?

However, Byron especially liked these very exciting words, and he immediately let go of Erna and began to stare at Martin for the interview: "Martin, so you seem to be very dissatisfied with Lee? ”

"It's okay! In fact, the villain is also a capable villain. Our custom homepage business has grown very well, dominating almost all the markets on the Internet. There is also a newly established parallel line community, which brings users a real experience on the network......

“……”

When he returned to the newspaper, Byron always felt a little unsatisfied. Although a lot of material has been collected in today's interview, it still seems to be not exciting enough, mainly because of the lack of Li, a key figure.

However, as a young journalist with little qualifications, it is impossible for him to go to China to cover the news. If you just write an interview like that, it's not newsworthy, and it's likely to end up in a corner of the newspaper?

In desperation, Byron followed the phone number left by Martin and did a telephone interview!

"Hey! Hello, are you the founder of Parallel Lines, Lee? ”

"Hello. I am. ”

"I'm Byron a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Don't know if you're available for a phone interview with us? ”

"Yes."

Li Yuan on the other end of the phone was confused, why did the "Los Angeles Times" take the initiative to find the door?

The Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, together known as the three major newspapers in the United States, have a very high status in American society and the world, and they are also very traditional and serious media.

I guess I haven't done anything bad, right? Even if you do something unreasonable, you should be on "Los Angeles Entertainment" (a famous paparazzi tabloid in the United States), because you don't have enough coffee seats? Didn't destroy the Earth or provoke aliens at all?

"Lee, I've heard someone comment that you're a villain? Do you think this comment is correct? ”

"Huh! This is my screen name on the internet. ”

"Then why call it a villain?"

"Don't you think we're villains?" Li Yuan explained with a smile, "In the previous PC era, the IT era that is about to begin, we will completely disrupt almost all traditional industries and completely change everyone's life." Whether it's disruption or change, there will definitely be a painful period. Those who keep the old will be miserable. Aren't we villains in their eyes? ”

Byron also laughed: "Hehe." Do you mean that you are going to change the world? ”

"Correction: we're going to change the world! I'm definitely walking on my own, and I have a lot of companions who are committed to the Internet. ”

"Alright! Is that your ambition? Can you tell us when you expect it to happen? Or is it just a dream? ”

"It's not an ambition, it's not a dream. When the Internet came along, everything was doomed! ”

"Are you so sure? Sorry, can you give an example? ”

"Absolutely. For example, your newspapers, and traditional media such as television stations. In the future, it should be slowly replaced by Internet media. ”

"Huh?"

"Don't worry, Mr. Byron. The work of your journalists has not changed. It is nothing more than a change in the form of media. In the past, people used to read newspapers and watch TV, and later they watched the news through the Internet. ”

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Byron didn't feel much offended, he thought it was a little ridiculous, "Lee, ......what do you mean?" In the future, newspapers and televisions will be replaced, and people will sit in front of very cumbersome computers and watch the news? It can't be, right? ”

"Maybe you will feel cumbersome now, but the upgrade of hardware technology will definitely take lightness and portability as the development direction." Li Yuan smiled, "Even if you don't consider the upgrade of hardware. Do I have to pay to subscribe to a newspaper or TV news? But Internet news will be available for free. Then there's the super capacity. Theoretically, as long as the server has enough storage, the news on the Internet can reach infinite. Finally, there is the push of related news. Take, for example, the recent separation of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. If a reader is interested in this news, the website will push the whole process of their marriage. Everything from getting married and having children, to a breakdown relationship, including those gossip. What you can't do with traditional media, or do you need to spend a lot of money, time, and effort to make a documentary about the feature? ”

Decades later, these words are commonplace. But as a "primitive man" in this era, Byron always felt as if he was listening to the Arabian Nights: "Haha. Sounds wonderful, but can it really be realized? ”

"Mr. Byron, that's what we're working towards. But it shouldn't be too far away. ”

"Won't it be too far away? Five years? Or ten years? Byron still felt incredulous.

"Huh." Li Yuan did not continue to explain. Believe it or not.

"Lee! I feel like you're a lot like Anderson. You're all that kind of ...... Well? ”

"A very braggart guy?"

"Hahaha! I didn't say that. Well...... Be more confident! Lee, Anderson, do you know each other? Netscape's Anderson? ”

"I've heard of it."

"And what do you know about the recent noise fights?"

"I've heard a little." Li Yuan said with a smile, "I've been spending more time in China lately. But the controversy is still more or less known. ”

"Oh well! Let me give you a brief overview of the process......"

At this point in the interview, Byron has secretly labeled Li Yuan in his heart - an Anderson supporter and Netscape's ally. But whether it is the Internet industry or the market share of browsers, this Li is the second position, and at most he is a role of waving the flag. So the news value is not very high.

But on the other hand, Lee turned out to be a Chinese, not us Americans. Can those ignorant Chinese still create a career in Silicon Valley? Although it is less famous, it is like a tiger popping out of a rat's nest, which is more unusual.

Therefore, you can make a regular small report, and most of the interview content can be used as material for later use. Of course, that will have to wait until this Li has become famous. If it disappears in the future, there will be no future......

When he had finished explaining all this, Byron asked, "Lee! Can you please have a personal opinion on this noise war? Or rather, which side are you on? ”

"Hehe......" Li Yuan laughed meaningfully.

"Don't worry, just tell us your personal opinion."

"What do you think about ......?" Li Yuan seemed to ponder for a few seconds, "Then ...... Hope they are strong! Hahaha! ”

In fact, according to Li Yuan's view, this noise war is purely full of food.

Oracle won't talk about it first, the second in ten thousand years, it seems that he has never turned over in his life?

Microsoft missed the later Internet era and the smartphone era, from a monopoly giant, to just one of the giants?

As for Netscape? How beautiful it is now, how tragic it will be in the future.

And the other high-tech ancient companies involved in the war, except for Apple, which can turn over the salted fish, the other endings do not seem to be very good. The big factories that will be in the future are almost not born at present. Among them, there are several large factories in China......

But then again, Li Yuan didn't think about spoilers, spoilers are not fun. He's still very bad.

But think about the fate of these companies...... Let's hope they're strong! Hehe.

(⊙?⊙)

Byron, however, looked confused. What does this mean exactly? "Lee, strong? Can you tell us what you mean? ”

"Hehe, that's literally."

Byron pondered this sentence for a moment, and he couldn't help but light up his eyes: "Do you think they can't do it?" Don't look good for the future? Does that include Netscape? ”

"Huh. I'm sorry. It's time for the interview. ”

"Hey, Lee! Do you think only you parallels will succeed? Will they all be defeated by you? ”

"Huh. No comment! Hahaha......"

“……”

After the phone interview, Byron quickly finished writing the story and sent it to the editor-in-chief.

The Los Angeles Times did not delay, and they cut out most of the story, leaving only two or three hundred words, leaving a dried tofu page in the corner of the financial section.

Wait until the newspaper is published...... It didn't cause much repercussions at all.

Everyone knows who won a gold medal in the Olympics, but who cares about a silver medalist?

Including the last sentence "I hope you are strong"? Isn't it just a second player saying sour things? Maybe it still has the purpose of hype, thinking that we Eagle Sauce has no knowledge?

And the other sides of the war, they either didn't pay attention to the report at all, or when they saw it, they just scoffed.

Still want to make us strong? Just look at the bird on your parallel lines, and ask how many days you can survive?

And at this moment, a new force also rose up reluctantly, diverting everyone's attention at once. That's – Yahoo!

Like many new things in the computer IT era, Yahoo! started as an idea, then became a hobby, and eventually became a business that people dedicate themselves to.

Thanks to the Internet, there is an HTML homepage, so how do you access it? And so the browser came in.

But there is more and more content on the homepage, how to find the homepage you need? Hence the emergence of search engines.

There is also a collection of related homepages that can be accessed through a link to the main site to facilitate the user's search, that is, the portal.

And at that time David. Fei Luo and Yang Zhiyuan, both Ph.D. students in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. They, like Anderson, are treated as free labor by their mentors, looking for relevant homepages on the Internet for their mentors. In order to reduce their ineffective work, they have created a web guide repository as a way to facilitate their work and to document their personal interest in the Internet.

But it didn't take long for the two of them to be surprised to learn that the list they had written themselves had become long, more and more inconvenient, and less and less convenient to handle. So they started spending more and more time on Yahoo!......

Eventually, they turned Yahoo! into a customizable database designed to meet the needs of the thousands of users who were just beginning to use the web service through the Internet community. They have developed customizable software that helps them effectively find, identify, and edit material stored on the internet.

Needless to say, Yahoo! also got venture capital very quickly, and Yahoo! finally entered the battlefield......