Back To 1995

   Chapter 144 Mine

   For this proposal, the reporters and media who entered the backstage of the San Jose Convention Center all supported it at the same time. If there is no photo, and the Internet gangs are not brought together, what will these media do.

Today, people from Netscape and Microsoft are here. Thinking about the people on both sides standing together, these media are excited. In addition, Song Yang, who had a big talk with Netscape before, these people are standing together. , isn't it another famous scene? !

   Song Yang heard this proposal, glanced at the two founders of Netscape, and at Myhrvold, the representative of Microsoft, and nodded in agreement.

Without any hesitation or anything like Xian, Song Yang pulled Wesley directly and stood at C, Myhrvold stood on Song Yang's right, Mark Anderson stood on Song Yang's left, and then Yang Zhiyuan , Ferro, and staff from companies such as AOL and Lycos stood aside in turn.

   One year after entering the Internet industry, Song Yang finally had a place of his own. Looking at Song Yang standing next to him, Anderson's eyes were a little complicated.

I still remember half a year ago, when Netscape was first listed, it was Anderson who was praised by all the stars, and Song Yang could only stand in the corner where the photos were inconspicuous, but now, Song Yang is already standing in what should have been. Where Anderson stood.

But there is no objection now, which is enough to show that everyone present agrees with such a position, and it also shows that the status of Netscape and his Anderson has dropped significantly, or they agree that at this moment, Song Yang's Internet arena The status is no less than his Anderson!

Song Yang, Anderson, Jim Clark, Yang Zhiyuan, Ferro, Whitman, Myhrvold and others stood together. The reporters were desperately pressing the shutter. No accident, this photo will appear tomorrow. The front pages of newspapers and magazines in the big tech industry are enough for the media to do things with reporters.

  Consists of crystal **** and LED lights, which can change into thousands of colors of crystal balls. When it was lit up in New York, the curtain was officially opened on the last night of 1995.

  America's many TV stations have begun to broadcast the grand New Year's Eve performance in New York as usual. Many American singers and European stars have gathered in Times Square in New York.

San Jose also became noisy at this time, but at this time, this city in the center of Silicon Valley has the largest number of people in the conference center, which can accommodate 5,000 people. The media, reporters, teachers and students of the University of San Jose have all gathered here at this moment.

ICQ's press conference site is definitely not comparable to the New Year's Eve party in Times Square, New York, but Song Yang still brought a channel of San Jose local TV station, Houston TV station, and Microsoft IE browser for ICQ. The press conference will be broadcast live to all users by means of text.

When the crystal lights in Times Square in New York rose, the lights of the San Jose Convention Center began to dim, and then in front of the stage, the lights began to light up, and the special giant projector screen also began to light up, and then a sentence appeared on it, " ICQ connects the world!"

  The originally noisy conference center began to quiet down slowly. Anderson, Yang Zhiyuan, Myhrvold and many other Internet experts turned their attention to the ICQ on the projector.

Kevin Kelly, who was sitting in the front row, also took out a small notepad. He was here today not only to join in the fun, or to ease the relationship between Song Yang and Netscape, Kevin's professionalism does not need to be said, tomorrow he will He will also make his insights and comments on this conference on the official website and magazine of Wired.

   took a deep breath and met Song Yang's eyes below the stage. With a rehearsed smile on Wesley's face, he walked towards the stage.

"I'm very glad that you are attending today's product launch. I know that there are people sitting down below, thinking about ending it as soon as possible and going to see the New Year's Eve performance in New York Times Square, but unfortunately, in the next 90 minutes Inside, you all need to put up with having someone on stage right now..."

These remarks caused a lot of laughter from the people at San Jose University sitting below, and after laughing at himself, Wesley suddenly said seriously, "But it's also possible that in the future you may see the event that has been held for more than 100 years. New Year's Eve in New York, but never see today's conference that could redefine the Internet industry!"

   Looking at the reaction below, Wesley breathed a sigh of relief. Wesley felt that the orator consultant did not ask for nothing, at least he calmed down now.

   "Today's press conference is for the instant messaging software ICQ established by Mr. Bruno Song, myself and the entire team!"

Song Yang ceded the title of the founder of ICQ to Wesley, but Wesley did not know what to do. He really dared to occupy the title of the father of instant messaging alone. To be able to touch it, for Willis, It is already a blessing.

Hearing the words instant messaging and IM software, the people from San Jose University who were present were just curious, but all the people from the Internet company sat up straight and stared at Wesley on the stage. , Laymen watch the excitement, experts watch the door, Yang Zhiyuan, Anderson, Myhrvold and others are keenly aware that the Internet is probably going to make waves again with the emergence of ICQ.

   "Human beings are gregarious creatures, and communication is an instinct that exists in the DNA since the birth of human beings. From the area where human beings live, the way of human communication is constantly changing."

"In other words, changes in technology have allowed human beings to communicate from face-to-face communication to using words, books, and flying pigeons to pass books. One hundred and fifty-eight years ago, the emergence of the telegraph enabled human beings to achieve cross-border communication for the first time. Continents communicate with oceans. One hundred and thirty-five years ago, the advent of the telephone made it possible for human beings to listen to and hear voices halfway across the world through a single line..."

Wesley talked so much, just for the next words, "And now is the Internet age, there should be a new communication method, which will represent technology and become the most important communication method for human beings, allowing people to communicate with people anytime, anywhere. Anyone who wants to communicate to talk, only needs a computer, a network cable, and ICQ!"

   "Boom"

   There was a huge noise at the scene. Wesley laid the groundwork for so long, just to set off the greatness of ICQ, and listed it as the same product as the telegraph and telephone, in order to set off the importance of ICQ.

Hearing this, all the Internet companies below always felt that something was wrong, but they couldn't tell. Only Anderson looked at Song Yang, who was a few seats away, and found out what was wrong. Willis is so special. The bragging is about to go to heaven, but Netscape didn't dare to brag like that. Wesley directly blew ICQ into something that changed the course of human history...

   On the giant projector screen behind Wesley, the ICQ login page began to appear, and Willis explained ICQ to everyone present.

"ICQ supports a variety of login methods such as web pages and clients. You can apply for registration or log in with your Hotmail mailbox. Of course, in the future, ICQ will seek cooperation with more technology companies. For user convenience, as long as Netscape, IE, Yahoo, Lycos, AOL and other companies are willing to cooperate with ICQ, then ICQ can allow these users to log in with the accounts of these partners!"

Hearing this, Jim Clark, Anderson, Yahoo Coog and others were obviously stunned. The photographer in charge of the directing scene gave them a close-up of their faces. Jim Clark and Anderson squeezed out. A stiff smile, they knew it was given to the first army by ICQ.

If you don't agree to cooperate with ICQ, it means that Netscape is not thinking about users, and just wants to monopolize the Internet, but if you agree, this is the enemy, and the users who have worked so hard to accumulate will all make ICQ's wedding dress. .

In addition, the most important point is that you really agree to import users into ICQ, which is equivalent to cutting off the idea of ​​Netscape and other Internet companies to enter the field of instant messaging. Willis' words are equivalent to killing three birds with one stone. , Jim Clark glanced at Song Yang with a bad look. He didn't believe that Willis could play this trick. It looked like Song Yang's handwriting.

   "ICQ will implement a model of permanent use of free and some value-added services. As you can see, as long as you log in to ICQ, you can find and add friends, and you can start chatting with them!"

With Wesley's demonstration, exclamations were heard from time to time, just as Jobs showed the first truly mature smartphone, which shocked countless people on the scene. When the first mature instant messaging software appeared , for the era of scarcity of Internet products, it is nothing less than a ten-magnitude earthquake.

   Especially for the young people at the University of San Jose, the emergence of ICQ is too novel and trendy for them.

   "You can use ICQ to send text to friends, and you can also send emoticons."

  Under Willis' instruction, the ICQ engineer who controlled the computer on the scene sent out several emoji packages, such as smiling faces, crying and laughing, which made the scene even more restless.

Looking at the crowd at the scene, Willis said with a smile, "The emoji packs will only be used on ICQ now and in the future. In the future, ICQ will also provide a variety of emoji packs, and in the later stage, users will be able to open their own DIY emoji packs. Permissions, I believe, emojis will become part of Internet culture!"

Willis' face showed the same emoji as the smiley emoji, but the group of colleagues sitting below couldn't laugh. They could all hear Willis' subtext. The emoji patent was monopolized by ICQ. , In addition to ICQ, any other company should not even think about using this stuff.

"In addition to chatting and sending emoticons, ICQ also supports group functions. Now a user can freely form a group of no more than 50 people, and can chat freely within the group. In the future, it will be enabled in value-added services. Larger group permissions!"

   "In addition, ICQ also has some office functions. ICQ supports Hotmail mail, offline file download, online file transfer, screenshots, and ICQ directly connects to the printer to print files and other office functions!"

   (end of this chapter)