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   Chapter 148 Chopping melons and vegetables

   There are more than 87,000 registered users in a single day. What does this represent and what it means in today's Internet age, no one knows better than Anderson and Jim Clark.

If the previous Hotmail mailbox went through a buffer period before it started to explode, then ICQ doesn't talk about martial arts at all. When it came up, it was full of firepower, and the Internet old rivers and lakes such as Netscape were somewhat unsupported. live!

   "Nielsen data believes that ICQ users will exceed the 95,000 mark on the first day, and may even exceed 100,000!"

   Baxter knew that Anderson didn't want to listen to this, but he still said it. It was related to Netscape's life and death. Even if they didn't want to listen, there was nothing they could do.

"We can no longer confront Bruno Song, we need to improve our relationship with him, even if it is impossible to pull ICQ into the Netscape camp, we must not let it fall to Microsoft like Hotmail, Netscape can't afford it Such a loss!"

   Looking at the data in front of him, Jim Clark understands that Song Yang is about to have another Internet hit product, but now Netscape is a little too high.

Thinking of this, Jim Clark felt a sense of bleakness. Netscape now has a market value of billions of dollars. !

   Anderson took a deep breath, "Even if Netscape is willing to maintain a good relationship with ICQ, no one can predict what the small farmer in Houston will do!"

   "He won't sell ICQ to Microsoft again, I promise!"

   Jim Clark looked at Anderson and said with certainty, "If he wants to sell ICQ, he will never do all this. Next, maybe he has to support Netscape. I know what kind of person he is."

Jim Clark is also a veteran of the Internet, and he can be called countless people. What Song Yang wants to do, if he didn't understand before, Jim has now fully understood. Song Yang is using Netscape as a shield to talk to Microsoft or other Internet companies. The company raised the price. Perhaps Song Yang never cared about Netscape.

   When he mentioned this, Jim Clark couldn't hide his disappointment. When Song Yang really secretly supported Netscape, it meant that Song Yang didn't want to lose Netscape's price-raising shield, and Netscape was really dying!

   When the ICQ first-day report released by Nielsen data was released, all the audiences were shocked. This has already set a new Internet record.

   In the next week, instant messaging and social networking have also become the most popular terms in the Internet industry. When reporting news every day, major Internet and technology media, if they do not mention these two terms, it seems that they are not chasing hot spots at all.

  ICQ also staged a furious road to the Internet counterparts in America and the world this week!

   After the record of more than 90,000 new registered users was staged in a single day, ICQ doubled its strength with a more violent attitude the next day, making ICQ's global registered users exceed 270,000 in two days, shocking the global technology industry.

The reason why ICQ can attract the attention of the entire technology industry is that its performance is too violent. It is even more terrifying than the "virus marketing model" of Hotmail mailboxes. As long as a city has the first ICQ user, the next day A city can add one hundred, two hundred or even more new users. There has never been a product in human history that can have such an explosive promotion speed.

   What makes countless technology companies stunned is that even though ICQ is still mainly in English, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, German and other versions have not yet been launched, but ICQ has spread to these non-English versions.

In Asia and Eastern Europe, where the Internet is not yet developed, those users are abruptly uncomfortable with the English version, so they use ICQ to communicate with classmates and friends, or search for strangers to chat, even if it is just for chatting. Duzi or sending an emoji, new users can carry a high Internet fee, just to let ICQ display the online status, when they receive a message, they can make these users excited for a long time...

The emergence of   ICQ seems to be used to break the usual cognition of the Internet industry. When it quickly swept the global users at a rate of doubling every day, the American media had to put a question mark.

   "Who can stop ICQ?"

   "Where is the end of ICQ?!"

Under the media’s inquiries, ICQ hit a record of 630,000 new users after it was launched for three days. After five days of launch, the number of users exceeded 1.3 million. At the seventh time, the growth rate of new users seems to have stabilized. If the number of new users exceeds 500,000, it is considered stable, then ICQ has indeed begun to "stabilize"...

   When the week ended, the entire American Internet industry breathed a sigh of relief. ICQ dominated Silicon Valley and the Internet industry this week.

Microsoft and Netscape have also made countless technology companies feel a sense of dominance, but that slowly formed, boiled frogs in warm water, frogs at least have time to react, but ICQ is really scary, like an elevator rising from the ground in an instant. At the height of 100 meters, people with bad hearts are gone. ICQ gives this feeling to all the peers.

   And just when everyone was paying attention to ICQ cutting melons and vegetables, when the world was frantically harvesting users, the Wall Street Journal suddenly broke the news of ICQ, which made the entire technology industry take a breath.

   "The world's first online instant messaging ICQ is currently being followed by countless users. It is occupying the emerging "social" industry on the Internet established by Bruno Song at an unimaginable speed.

  The market and profit prospects of the social industry are still unknown, but ICQ is setting a new record. The NFT avatars and pictures launched by ICQ are rapidly affecting the entire collection industry.

   According to current data, the NFT foundation established by ICQ has already sold 248 transactions, more than 1,700 NFT avatars have been sold, and the overall transaction volume has exceeded 25.4 million US dollars, making it the company with the highest revenue in the Internet industry this year!

   At present, many auction houses such as Fujiby and Christie's have accepted the auction of NFT avatars. In the future, this business may bring ICQ higher revenue!

But there are also many controversies in NFT. Whether the global copyright claimed by NFT infringes the interests of other Internet companies, whether NFT pictures are really valuable, etc. are still the focus of debate, but there are already more than a dozen Internet companies and platforms. NFT marketplace. "

The report of the Wall Street Journal made all Internet companies know for the first time that ICQ's NFT business is so profitable. Stealing money, the entire Internet industry is a little bit eager for a while!

   "Song, may I know, why did you launch ICQ?!"

In the entire American Internet industry, the function of ICQ and its sweeping global user record are being discussed. When NFTs harvested IQ tax, the latest issue of the thickened magazine published by Wired Magazine published Kevin Kelly's comments on ICQ. The exclusive interview, this interview magazine, was sold out on the same day, setting the highest sales volume since Wired Magazine was launched!

The cover of this issue of Wired is naturally ICQ, and the accompanying text is "the world's first instant messaging software". At Song Yang's request, Wired magazine put the photos of Song Yang and Willis on the cover. above.

  Although ICQ's external publicity is the two founders, Willis is also the speaker of the conference, but Kevin Kelly can't see who is the real founder of ICQ.

As soon as    came up, Kevin Kelly asked Song Yang.

"I have always admired the symbol of Internet culture, which is freer and more convenient. Everyone is the protagonist of the Internet, but the Internet before the emergence of ICQ was blocked. An email may only take a few seconds from sending to receiving. But it's not that easy to get in touch with someone!"

Song Yang answered Kevin Kelly's question, "So, I want to build an Internet platform for telegram or telephone, using Internet technology to allow users to communicate "face-to-face", ICQ is also Willis' effort, he I gave everything for ICQ!"

  Song Yang did not forget to praise Willis, who is eager to become an Internet giant, he needs to give Willis enough exposure. In the future ICQ interviews, Song Yang is going to give Willis to show his face.

   "So Song, where do you think the social industry will be in the entire Internet industry in the future?!" Kevin glanced at his notepad and asked Song Yang.

This question is not easy to answer. If social networking is important, then major Internet companies will compete to enter. If it is not important, what is the matter with ICQ launched by Song Yang, and it also negates everything that ICQ has done for so long. !

Song Yang was silent for a while, then said, "In the future, the Internet industry should form several major industries, and social networking should be one of them. In this industry, whether ICQ becomes the winner or new players enter the market, it is there. , maybe there will be a new form, but it won't go away because humans...need to communicate!"

Song Yang's remarks in Wired magazine have been interpreted by many media and Internet companies, especially the major Internet industries Song Yang said have become hot spots. This is the first time that the Internet has become hot since two years ago. Someone once proposed to summarize the Internet industry, and which industries can become important industries of the Internet, has also been debated by countless people.

No matter how the outside world is arguing, the ICQ office building is bursting with cheers at this moment. After a week of hard work, when the technical, operation and other departments are on vacation, ICQ issued high bonuses and various subsidies, which stimulated ICQ The staff of the department can't wait to stay for another week!

   (end of this chapter)