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Chapter 191 Crazy ICQ

It was already late at night, and the office of ICQ was still brightly lit. Mike Dyson and a group of his men stayed in the company after dinner and did not go back. While doing the final inspection work, they waited for that moment to come.The clock "click click" slowly moved forward, and the hour hand gradually moved past the "11" on the clock face...

At 11:17 on November 23, the last inspection of all servers in ICQ's computer room before going online was completed...

At 23:30, the internal line test of the ICQ server was completed...

At 23:40, the ICQ software download server went online...

At 23:50, the ICQ registration, login, database and other servers went online, and the ICQ service was officially launched...

At 23:55, ICQ download links have been successfully added to the homepages of some websites under the VisualSystem Group, including the auction website that has been renamed from Auctionweb to EBay, and Hotmail, which has been online for more than two months...

At 23:59, the official website of ICQ "www." was officially launched, and the first batch of visitors will be welcomed soon...

Most of the other computers in the office have been turned off, and only one computer running a monitoring program is still on. Right above, Mike Dyson and his crew were all staring at the monitor computer screen, expecting the numbers on it to change.

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Scarlett is an ordinary 16-year-old American girl who lives at No. 58 Barker Street in Boston. Like many people of her age, she likes all kinds of fashion things very much.And the Internet that has become popular recently has also attracted a lot of her attention. In fact, it is not only her who is attracted by this thing, almost all the classmates around her are addicted to it.Two months ago, her classmate Pete discovered an interesting website Hotmail, which actually had free e-mail addresses to apply for, so she spread the word to ten or ten, and soon sending e-mails to each other became their communication. One of the most fashionable ways.

Almost a week ago, Scarlett became obsessed with a new gadget. Pete’s sister Judy somehow got a software ICQ that can send messages to each other through the Internet. Check, the message sent by ICQ can be received immediately. The only thing that is not good is that there are only five numbers that can be used, which is not enough points. As a result, everyone has to take turns to try it out.Since using ICQ, Scarlett seldom touches e-mail anymore. She can't wait for the transmission of e-mail at all. She just wants to chat directly at any time, just like ICQ.

Two days ago, Scarlett saw the ICQ advertisement in the newspaper by chance. Perhaps many people didn't understand it at this time, but she understood that the time written in the newspaper must be the day when ICQ was officially released. From the beginning, she has been looking forward to the coming of the 18th, and she has a new habit every day, which is to use the latest version of Internet Explorer browser to visit the domain name "www.".

At first, the ICQ website was basically blank, with only three huge letters "I, C, Q" and a clock that was counting down.On the evening of the 17th, Scarlett found that the ICQ website began to gradually add some content. The first thing that appeared was the function introduction of ICQ, "ICQ ('Iseekyou') is the world's first Internet chat tool. A brand-new, user-friendly instant messaging software, which supports chatting, sending messages and files on the Internet, etc. With the official version of ICQ, you can view, search and print message history, set random chat, and use multiple methods Find and add other users, and get more detailed user information..." Later, ICQ user guides and other content appeared, and the ICQ website gradually became richer.

At 23:56, Scarlett received a call from Pete: "Scarlett, go to Hotmail to check, there just appeared a download link for ICQ, hurry up and download it, don't miss it if it's too late."

Scarlett hastily entered the address of Hotmail on the address bar of the browser. As the webpage slowly appeared, she saw the download link of ICQ. It was the most eye-catching place on the entire page, and she immediately moved the mouse to click on it. After a while, the download of ICQ started.

At 18:0 on the 3th, the download of ICQ was completed. Scarlett immediately double-clicked the downloaded installer and installed the official version of ICQ1.0 into her computer. At the same time, a small green daisy appeared on the desktop. icon.Scarlett skillfully clicked the little green daisy, and a dialog box appeared as before, asking to enter the ICQ number and password. She habitually entered the number that she used frequently these days, and an error message The frame popped up without accident, and then she remembered that Pete said before that the original number will not be available after noon on the 17th, and a new number needs to be registered, so she moved the mouse and clicked the eye-catching " Click the "Register" button, and a registration page pops up.

After filling in some simple information, the system prompts that the registration is successful, and at the same time displays a series of numbers "100012", and also prompts "Please remember your own number and password, so as not to cause inconvenience to you if you forget it", There is also a link to the ICQ usage guide under that string of numbers.

Skillfully entered the new registration number and password again, this time the verification passed, and a long software interface appeared, which was exactly the ICQ that Scarlett had used in the past few days, but the friend column was blank.Scarlett picked up the phone she usually used to contact and called Pete: "Peter, I have already applied for a number, it is 100012, come and add me."

"Okay, wait a minute." Pete replied on the phone.

After a while, the little daisy in the lower right corner started to flicker, Scarlett clicked with the mouse, and a prompt box popped up, which read: "User 100006 has successfully added you as a friend, do you need to add the other party as a friend too? ", there are two buttons under that text, one is "agree" and the other is "deny".Scarlett didn't hesitate, and directly clicked "Agree". It was different from the original version, and a friend verification dialog box popped up.Scarlett thought it was good. She didn't have to worry about adding the wrong person, and she wouldn't be harassed by random strangers. She casually added her name to the verification message and sent it, and the other party's reply came soon. , At the same time, there is also an avatar that looks like Monkey King in "Dragon Ball" in the friend column.

"Peter, you're pretty quick. By the way, how did your friend verify it?" Scarlett skillfully clicked on the profile picture, brought up the message sending window, typed a paragraph in it, and sent it over. .

"I'm just a little faster than you. That friend verified a newly added function. You can check the user guide on the website, which introduces it." Soon Pete's reply came back, like Same as before, and it seems to be a little faster.

"Oh, then I'll take a look later. Pete, the current ICQ seems to be faster than before." Scarlett sent her findings.

"Scarlett, I also found out just now, it seems that the startup speed is faster than before, and some functions have been added, but I'm still working on it." Pete quickly replied.

Scarlett opened the browser and entered the ICQ website. She felt that the access speed seemed to be a little slower than before, but fortunately, she could still open it.After the entire homepage appeared, Scarlett clicked on the "ICQ User Guide" link next to the download button, ready to go in and take a closer look to see what had changed.

After some research, Scarlett found that the official version of ICQ1.0 has really changed a lot. Originally, she could only add friends based on the number, but now there are many ways to retrieve online users, which means that she even If you don't know the other party's number, you can also add the other party as a friend to chat with the other party, and the number of avatars has increased from a dozen at the beginning to hundreds now, so that she no longer has to worry about too few choices.In fact, aside from these, Scarlett likes the lovely "uh-oh" sound, and now she can set it to other sounds, or even set it as her own recording.All in all, this is a small size, friendly interface, easy to use and innovative software, Scarlett believes that it will definitely be welcomed by her peers.

But in some people's hearts, they are not necessarily so confident.

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Mike Dyson and his team were full of confidence in ICQ at first under Zhang Lexing's flickering, but after a long period of testing and improvement, especially when ICQ was about to be officially launched, they suddenly felt guilty again.If Mike Dyson can make the decision, he is not even willing to vote for an advertisement. In the past week or so, each of them has always been involuntarily worried about "if ICQ is not popular". According to Mike Dyson Ideas should be put on the market in a low-key manner to see the reaction. If the effect is good, targeted advertisements should be placed. If the effect is not satisfactory, user feedback can be collected for further modification.But the big boss said that he must put up an advertisement, so Mike Dyson had no choice but to bite the bullet.

At 18:0 on the 3th, the ICQ service was officially opened. Mike Dyson and others gathered in the office, staring at the monitor computer screen. Gradually jumped from "0" to "12" within minutes, and then continued to grow slowly.

"The load of the web server is normal...the load of the registration server is normal...the load of the login server is normal...the database server is running normally...the load of the line is normal...the number of registered people is 18, and the number of online people is 17..." Robert Tony sitting in front of the monitoring computer Loudly shouted out the running situation.

Others, including Mike Dyson, stood behind Robert Tony, staring closely at the jumping numbers on the screen, full of anticipation in their hearts, hoping to see the magic that the big boss said, But at the same time, I felt a little uneasy, worried that the actual situation was not as good as imagined.

Half an hour later, Robert Tony reported the latest situation again: "The load of the web server is normal...the load of the registration server is normal...the load of the login server is normal...the database server is running normally...the load of the line is normal...the current number of registered people is 128 , the number of people online is 126..."

Everyone was silent for a while, and the situation didn't seem to be good. According to the current growth rate, there may only be a few thousand people registering in a whole day. This is not a stark difference from the tens of millions of users that the big boss said.

An hour later, Robert Tony shouted out the monitoring situation again: "The load of the web server is normal...the load of the registration server is normal...the load of the login server is normal...the database server is running normally...the load of the line is normal...the current number of registered people is 258, The number of people online is 253..."

"It's been an hour, and there are only more than 200. Have we failed?" Finally someone couldn't help but say it.

"What nonsense, this is just the beginning." Mike Dyson immediately retorted, but in fact he was also a little uneasy. In a few days, millions of dollars were spent on newspaper advertisements and download links on the website. Unexpectedly, such a result was obtained.

After waiting for more than three hours, the number of registered and online users of ICQ finally climbed past 1000, but the growth rate was still sadly slow. The disappointed Mike Dyson simply waved everyone back to sleep Yes, he also drove back to his apartment.After a brief wash, Mike Dyson lay down on the bed, but he was so tired that he tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. "ICQ", "number of registered people" and "number of people online" always appeared in his mind from time to time, and he kept tossing about for more than an hour , he finally fell asleep slowly.

Everyone else in ICQ was similar to Mike Dyson. They tossed and fell asleep when they returned to their respective homes. They also lay on the bed for more than an hour before falling asleep. There were some unfortunate ones such as Robert Tony. I didn’t fall asleep when the sun was bright, so I finally had to get up and make myself a cup of coffee. While drinking the coffee, I used my home computer to log in to the ICQ official website to see if there were any user messages during this time.As a result, he was shocked when he saw it. The official website almost couldn't be opened. He waited for almost 5 minutes just to wait for the homepage to appear completely.Robert Tony panicked. Could there be a problem with the server? Thinking of this, he didn't care what time it was, so he quickly picked up the phone and called Mike Dyson...

(End of this chapter)