Chapter 487 Prince Charming

In the middle stage of the 1990s, the appearance of VCD brought an audio-visual feast to the people of the whole country. At the same time, computers began to make efforts in the private market.

In 1997, a software called “Super Decoding” was put on the market, which built a bridge between VCD, DVD and computer platforms, and solved the difficulty of computer users to play VCD and DVD discs with optical drives. Praise.

In 1998, “Rivers and Lakes” was launched. In just two months, the number of registered users exceeded 10,000, the number of daily online users exceeded 1,000, and the server was fully loaded for a long time.

In August of the same year, North Latitude Technology was established in Zhujiang Road, Jinling City.

In 1999, “Rivers and Lakes” received capital injection from Bubusheng Group. The number of servers increased rapidly, the network covered the whole country, the number of registered users exceeded 500,000, and the maximum number of simultaneous online users exceeded 30,000.

In 2000, North Latitude Technology acquired the instant messaging business of Xunteng Technology for 1 million yuan, and opened up the data channel with the “Rivers and Lakes” server to establish the first cross-platform social network.

At the end of 2001, the tribal online line integrated into the instant messaging module began to be promoted in domestic colleges and universities. Its personalized algorithm, interest association, and social model with schools and departments as groups were quickly sought after by college students and netizens. By the spring of 2002, short In just three months, the number of active users broke through 600,000. On average, one out of seven netizens logged on to Tribe.com at least once a day.

In the winter of 2002, the “Rivers and Lakes”-Penguin-Tribe.com data line opened up. Tribe.com launched the Moments module to provide photo upload and display functions. Penguin was under pressure, and there was a large-scale migration of user groups.

In 2003, Tribe.com had over 3 million daily active users, becoming the No. 1 social networking site on the Chinese Internet.

In the summer of the same year, Tribe.com was listed on Nasdaq, United States, and quickly squeezed the overseas social media market.

The information on the big screen kept scrolling, and the young students sitting under the small auditorium kept whispering to each other, whispering about more detailed and fragmented information about the tribal network.

At the latter point, the reporters and photographers of the major media in East China are “standby”, because the guy who just appeared in Time Magazine with the evaluation of “the world’s most influential man” is a busy man, sending him The person in charge of Jinling University who invited did not expect that he would agree to come here as a guest.

The female teacher in a brown windbreaker walked to the podium, and the audience suddenly became quiet.



“Classmates, today we are honored to invite Mr. Zhang Kai, the founder and CEO of Tribe.com, to come to Jinling University as a guest. Everyone applauds and welcomes.”

Wow~

There was a round of applause from the audience.

Unlike the applause given to bureaucrats in the past, for this person, the students below have sincere sincerity, because basically everyone is using his tribal network.

The female teacher walked down with a smile on her face. About ten seconds later, a man in a suit and leather shoes walked out of the backstage and came to the front of the podium. The sound of pressing the camera shutter sounded from the auditorium, and flashes continued.

“Hello classmates, my surname is Zhang, my name is open, I can open it anywhere.”

Hahaha~

There was a burst of laughter from the audience, because the man who only appeared on the cover of “Time” not long ago published his own account on Tribe.com and wrote a commemorative article, including “I can open it anywhere.” “This witty remark.

“In the back, President Li asked me to come on stage to give you a few words. I think this is too far-fetched. It should be a few words, because my university life is also spent in this city, so, to a certain extent, You are my younger brothers and younger sisters.”

Wow.

There was warm applause from the audience.

Lin Yue stretched out his hands and pressed down: “Actually, I said this because I wanted to get close to you and allow me to stop work early and eat the meal promised by President Li, because he said that he had prepared Chen Fang’s 15-year-old Maotai for me.”

There was another burst of laughter. Many single girls looked at him with their eyes beaming. They were attractive, humorous, and approachable. They were still self-made young rich men worth billions of dollars. They were properly set by Prince Charming.

At this time, a female reporter in a turtleneck raised her hand.

Lin Yue stretched out his right hand and motioned to her to get up and ask questions.

The female reporter said: “Mr. Zhang, I would like to ask under what circumstances did you want to build a social network like Tribe. You must know that before 2002, you already had “Rivers and Lakes” and Penguin. Products, and the latter’s users are growing very fast.”

Lin Yue glanced at someone in the audience and said: “In fact, I had this idea as early as the millennium. Some students who wanted to come to my life experience also heard about it. For a while, I especially wanted to know those students who lost contact. I miss them in particular. I’m thinking if there is such a software that can let us understand each other’s current situation even if we are thousands of miles apart, and even our daily life, how good it would be, and the current popular instant Communication software cannot do this kind of thing. Based on the professionalism of a programmer, I began to think about the feasibility of this idea, and finally launched Tribe.com after a year and a half.”

“It’s no wonder that the initial promotion activities were launched in major colleges and universities after Tribe.com went online. So, you launched Tribe.com just to understand the situation of your classmates?”

“You can say that.” Lin Yue said with a smile: “Progress comes from demand.”

“Then this classmate must be very important to you?”

Lin Yue glanced across the auditorium, and paused for a moment in someone’s seat: “Yes, it’s very important.”

The female reporter thought for a while, did not continue to ask, thanked him and sat down.

At this time, a girl sitting in the first row raised her hand.

Lin Yue beckoned again, motioning her to get up and ask questions.

“Senior, there is a gossip on the Internet saying that you used to study at Jingnan University of Technology, but you were dropped out in your junior year. The reason announced by the school is that you violated the school discipline, but the truth is that the staff at the Academic Affairs Office made a mistake. Goal, in order to protect the wronged girl, you choose to bear all the guilt. Is this true?” The girl is also a talent.

Lin Yue nodded: “It’s true.”

The girl asked again: “Can you tell me about your relationship with that girl?”

Girls always look forward to love. A young, outstanding, successful, and wealthy man, if there is another fascinating life story, is simply the dream lover of all women.

The female reporter was not embarrassed to ask this question. Although she wanted to know, her professional ethics told her that she couldn’t do Eight Trigrams. However, what she didn’t expect was that the girl in the front row asked her the question she was forced to do.

This is also a question in the hearts of many students present, because the person’s answer is more convincing than guessing and the gossip circulating on the Internet.

“Do I have a relationship with that girl?” Lin Yue smiled at her, and suddenly turned to look at a female audience wearing a long sweater in the third row: “You can ask her this question.”

Wow~

The audience was in an uproar.

No one thought that there would be such a dramatic change. I thought he was the only one in the small auditorium. Who knew that the heroes and heroines in the story were all there.

People looked at the female audience holding coffee and listening to him quietly.

She did not look timid or shy because of everyone’s astonishment. She raised her head to look at the girl who asked the question, with a smile between her eyebrows that could warm the whole winter.

In the afternoon, on the bench on the edge of the playground of Jinling University.

Ruan Wan opened the zipper of the handbag and took out the pair of gloves that had been dismantled and knitted by Zheng Wei Tucao.

“A year ago, when Zheng Wei left Jinling, he said that I might not be able to give this pair of gloves in my life.”

She took his hand and helped him put it on one by one.

“She was wrong.”

Lin Yue looked at her profile and said, “How are you doing these years?”

Ruan Wan said, “What do you think?”

“sorry.”

She shook her head and didn’t pursue the issue, because it didn’t make sense, because she was not Zheng Wei, she was Ruan Wan.

“It’s cold outside, let’s go.”

Lin Yue nodded and got up from the bench. She took his arm and walked towards the school gate.

“Zhang Kai, can you tell me why you left without saying goodbye four years ago?”

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