Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1898 Angel
However, Mai Xiaomiao's appearance surprised Zhou Zhi even more. This girl is a foreigner. It would not be surprising if she said she knew Guan Tingting, but the Big Baozi Band, which has recently become the "leading singer of red songs", also has fans in the United States?
After asking, I found out that Mai Xiaomiao also knew about them from the forum. There used to be very little information in Chinese on the Internet, but it is different now.

After the world unified the use of a Chinese code, people discovered that there are actually a lot of Chinese users on the Internet.

So everyone talked about the current portal website again.

In the life that Zhou Zhi traveled through, China had two Internet connections before 1995. The first was on March 1993, 3, when the Computing Center of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences leased AT&T's international satellite line and built a 2K dedicated line connected to the SLAC National Laboratory at Stanford University in the United States, becoming China's first dedicated line to access the Internet.

Later, on April 1994, 4, promoted by President Hu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, researchers from the Computer Network Information Center used the World Bank loan NCFC project to open another 20K dedicated line.

From this day on, China entered the era of Internet access as a country.

But at this time, the Internet is actually something that ordinary people cannot see or touch.

It was not until January this year that China Telecom opened two INTERNET nodes in the capital and Shanghai.

Initially, these two nodes could only be regarded as an explanation for the strengthening of openness between the two countries. Originally, this was a business undertaken by Sprint, one of the world's three largest telecommunications giants. As a result, Sprint really looked down on this "small business" and subcontracted it to AsiaInfo, an Internet business company founded by a group of Chinese in the United States.

AsiaInfo had only ten people in total, which was actually a very makeshift team at the time. In fact, the business value of Sprint was 2 million US dollars, but when Sprint subcontracted it to AsiaInfo, it only spent 200,000 US dollars.

Even so, AsiaInfo became a "pig on the vent of the wind". It was not until their entrepreneurial boss Liu Yadong came to China that he could not help but complain.

Because he found that Sprint gave up this piece of fat for a particularly deep-seated reason.

China is not the Internet desert that everyone imagines. There has long been a giant crocodile eyeing it - the Clover Group.

At that time, Clover had rented more advanced satellite lines, established the Southwest Campus Network, and connected universities across the country. At the same time, it had completed the relevant preparations for almost all subsequent Internet applications, from browsers with search guidance functions, BBSs with mature architectures, real-time communication software, portals, and so on.

In fact, there are three other "big guys" who have just resigned and started their own businesses and are complaining just as much as Liu Yadong.

But the big guys are still small crabs now, and they have just founded their own company.

Ding Lei built his own BBS in Ningbo, Ma Huateng created PonySoft, and Ma Yun created China Yellow Pages.

It's really miserable.

Which BBS is the best? Of course, Clover Forum. So Ding Lei cried.

What does PonySoft do? It is just a "BBS-like website" set up at home using CFido architecture server and 4 telephone lines. It can't even compete with Ding Lei's BBS, so Ma Huateng also cried.

The China Yellow Pages itself is a very good idea, but then it encountered the China Enterprise Yellow Pages created by Clover, which also has the official background of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce. It registered the international domain names of many famous national enterprises and brands, protected them when the majority of enterprises were not aware of them, and then returned them to the enterprises free of charge, charging only maintenance fees. It has established an excellent reputation among both management departments and corporate users.

Now it has a search function and has even begun to try to connect upstream and downstream customers, so Ma Yun also cried. Now it is very difficult to access the website. For example, PonySoft, which has four phone lines, according to the records of "China Computer Users" magazine: reporters often have to dial 10 to 20 times before they can get in. In addition, too few lines also limit users' stay on the site. A new user only has a few minutes of connection time.

Clover's automatic reconnection and breakpoint resume technology can solve these problems well.

Fortunately, these people are also senior users of the Clover Forum. The Clover Group has been paying attention to their development and extended a helping hand in time when everyone was feeling difficult.

To put it in the most beautiful words possible, the four-leaf clover had also been caught in the rain, so even though he only had a broken umbrella, he still wanted to provide shade for others.

Hu Tianyu once complained about the boss behind his back. The boss always hid under the shadow of the giants and eventually became a fat man that even the giants couldn't ignore. How could he have ever been caught in the rain? ?

Wasn’t the rain blocked by the giants?

However, Hu Changfeng praised Zhou Zhi's words. Old Hu was the one who had truly experienced the rain. The failure of Project 908 really made the country's chip industry precarious. No one knew better than him what it was like to stay in the ministry for those years.

The national information industry needs to have strong both soft and hard legs in order to take big steps forward. No one understands this principle better than him.

Therefore, he personally went to the ministry and organized a meeting at the Ministry of Electronics Industry with the Clover Group, AsiaInfo, and the five people named by Zhou Zhi, Qiu, Lei, Ma, and Ding, who were just about to go to Bolang.

At the meeting, Clover Group agreed to transfer relevant technologies to the five people and provide financial support to help them develop in China's Internet industry.

Among them, Lei obtained the advanced architecture code of the Clover Forum and was able to use JAVA to develop his own new BBS.

Ding obtained another set of codes from the Clover Group, which was also developed based on JAVA. It can freely set news pages and other content. The group calls it a "portal."

Malaysia has obtained the server maintenance outsourcing contract for the China Business Yellow Pages, and can now develop a yellow pages and business matching system with real national influence.

Erma obtained the maintenance outsourcing contract for the QQ software and devoted himself to the research and development of the real-time chat software.

Lei Ze continued to do his old job and started the outsourcing business of Clover Antivirus Software, continuing to play with viruses and firewalls.

Because the Clover Group provides the main development technology and funds, which is very different from the "angel investment" approach, the shares it holds in the companies of several people are quite large. For example, in the company mentioned above, the Clover Group even holds as much as 70% of the shares.

In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of several people, Zhou Zhi put forward a proposal that no one could refuse, that is, for five years, the group would not interfere with their operations. After five years, they would be allowed to repurchase shares, or dilute the share ratio of Clover through capital increase and stock expansion until it was reduced to below 50%, or even reduced to a proportion that could not affect the entrepreneur's decision even if they cast a dissenting vote at the shareholders' meeting.

In the eyes of several big guys who are still small shrimps, Clover's actions really made her an angel with a halo.

Only Zhou Zhi knew how much return his investment in these people would bring him in the future.