The God of Coding, Becoming an IT Conglomerate

73. follow me

“Wow. Does it fit in one ear? Are you saying it’s that fast?”

“I’m glad you’re okay.”

“It’s not good enough. If my intuition isn’t wrong, after a while, the entire nation might be talking about it like a buzzword.”

Lee Jin-chan said, repeating several times, as if he really liked the phrase, ‘If you want to follow me, follow me.’

“I’ll tell the PR team to start promoting right away.”

“I also want to produce and distribute advertisements.”

“A TV ad?”

“yes. Because it works the most.”

“OK. Then we should say let’s start right away.”

“thank you. senior.”

Lee Jin-chan put on a kind smile and left the office to speak to the public relations team.

Hoyoung also left H&H with Lee Jinchan when he left and went to the building across the street.

Since ADSL decided to open early, there was something that needed to be prepared more quickly than anything else.

“Chief. Could you tell the director of portal development to come up now?”

“yes. Please wait a moment.”

As soon as Hoyoung arrived at his office, he told Miru.

While Miru was gone, Hoyeong transferred the information Gaia had to her computer and started saving it to the diskette again.

“President. Did you call?”

After a while, Jeong Hyo-seop, who is in charge of the portal business department, arrived at Ho-young’s office.

“Are you here? Oh yeah. Please don’t call me the president.”

“Then what shall we call it?”

“The president is too burdensome, so I just do it as the representative. The CEO of the portal division will not be chosen separately, and I will take over.”

“All right.”

Hoyeong said as she organized the diskette she had transferred the information to.

“Boss. How far has portal development progressed?”

“Almost done. Now all you have to do is complete the search function. However, it is the first time to create a concept that did not exist completely, so everyone is having difficulties. Once the search engine is completed, I think it will be good enough to put it on the market right away.”

Hoyeong nodded and handed the diskette to Jeong Hyo-seop.

“This diskette is the source code for a search engine I made.”

“You mean the source code?”

“yes. It is in line with what we are trying to use on our portal now, so it will be much easier if you refer to the core code from the source I gave you.”

“When did you make this? If you only have the core source, it can be completed in a month… no, two weeks.”

The sauce Hoyoung gave me earlier was made by Gaia.

This time, it was difficult for Gaia to make alone, so Hoyoung made the core algorithm and basic framework, but eventually Gaia created a search engine that Hoyoung was satisfied with.

Gaia’s coding skills were improving day by day.

“Did you hear the story of trying to open ADSL service first in the metropolitan area?”

“yes. Earlier in the morning, the representative of Mason contacted me, so I knew about it.”

“okay. My goal is to open our portal on the same day that ADSL opens.”

“Consumers new to the Internet will, of course, think of the Internet as our portal.”

“you’re right.”

In fact, Hoyoung hoped that the staff would create the portal themselves if they had time.

In the future, there will be more and more areas for Hoyoung to pay attention to, but I always thought that neither Hoyoung nor Gaia could pay attention to detailed development.

It was Hoyoung’s intention to have a system that could develop on its own even if Hoyoung didn’t care.

In fact, the Cronos business was developing as close to 100 H&H developers put their heads together and repeated research even without Hoyeong.

But Hoyoung changed her mind.

‘But let’s pull as much time as possible.’

Even if you fill up your skills slowly, you decide to preoccupy the market.

“President Mason said right away that it could be opened in a few days. Please make sure the portal is as timely as possible, even if not a few days later.”

“All right. I will try to push the timing as much as possible even if I have to work overtime.”

“yes. But first, you have to consider the health of your employees.”

“haha. Okay. I always eat nutritious food.”

“sure. I’m giving you a corporate card to use that way.”

Hoyoung sent Jeong Hyo-seop out of the office after adding words of encouragement.

Then I picked up the receiver and made a call.

It was an international call.

“Berners Lee? That’s me. The time has finally come.”

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A few men are running through the desert.

the scorching sun.

The men running through the desert clearly look tough.

Then, a man comes running from far behind, raising a storm the day after tomorrow.

A close-up of the man overtaking the men running ahead at a superior speed is captured on the camera.

The identity of the man is Chow Yun-son, a Hong Kong actor who was making full use of the popularity of the time.

In front of the camera, he speaks with a face that doesn’t break a single drop of sweat.

“Follow me if you will.”

And again, the day after tomorrow, it causes a storm and disappears off the screen while leaving behind the men who are having a hard time.

Currently in Korea, the phrase ‘follow me if you will follow me’ has become very popular.

This advertisement, which did not mention a special brand or trade name, and did not know what kind of advertisement it was, was enough to arouse people’s curiosity.

Currently, he is also a well-known actor all over the world, and a few years ago, ‘I love you. It was only natural that it became a hot topic as it even featured Joo Yoon-son, who shook Korea once with an advertisement titled “Milkiss!”

“Follow me if you will!”

“If you get caught, you die!”

Even the children playing in the neighborhood were copying the phrase of the advertisement before they knew it.

‘This is the tremendous impact of image advertising.’

Watching Hoyoung say the advertising phrases wherever he passed, he thought his strategy was right.

The image advertising technique emphasizing mysticism was an advertising strategy that would not appear until about 10 years from now, so people today were shocked by the advertisement.

Of course, spending astronomical amounts of money to recruit world-class actors and posting TV commercials at the best time was one of the main reasons for the commercial’s success.

Two weeks passed in the blink of an eye after that.

ADSL and portals were now in the stage of completion and were waiting for a sortie.

“Now, schedule an interview with the newspaper with the strongest ripple effect. It would be one of the three major newspapers. If there are newspapers you are interested in, please buy even a few pages of advertisements on the paper. We are the owners of the advertisement, and we are now revealing that it is an ‘Internet’ advertisement that will open a new era.”

“Yep!”

In response to Hoyoung’s instructions, the staff responded in unison.

“Mason. Did you discuss the opening date with Korea Telecom?”

“yes. All relays are now powered on. It can be opened with just one phone call.”

“good. Please stand by as it is and be fully prepared so that it can be opened at any time.”

“yes!”

“And senior Wonshik?”

Today’s meeting hosted by Hoyoung was attended by Kim Wonsik as the representative of H&H.

“okay.”

“Is Knoros’s update package going well?”

“yes. The package was made normally, and the diskette factory is making it. For now, 500,000 copies will be completed in a week.”

Hoyoung and H&H decided to distribute an update package containing web browser and other security updates free of charge to users who currently use Chronos.

Since Kronos, which has already sold hundreds of thousands of copies only in Korea, giving the package to all users free of charge cost a lot of money, but Lee Jin-chan decided to invest boldly.

‘Now, when the Internet is opened, the level of update will be able to be done through the Internet.’

There were so many changes that the Internet could bring, so Hoyoung did not waste the money he spent this time.

“good. Then finally the portal. Are you ready for marketing?”

“Yes. We’re going to do a lot of publicity about the e-mail feature as you instructed, and we’ve already put together a press release emphasizing that anyone can create their own personal home page.”

“You worked hard.”

“Finally, we need to name the portal. With commercialization just around the corner, we can’t call it a portal forever. Have you thought about anything?”

Hoyoung thought for a moment, and everyone in the conference room waited for Hoyoung’s answer.

Since the name of the portal will soon become the name of the company, Hoyoung thought carefully.

“Hmm… This time I thought about it simply. How about the gate?”

“Are you talking about a gate?”

“yes. I thought of it that way in the sense that it doesn’t sound bad, it’s easy to remember, and you have to go through us when you use the Internet.”

“Then the domain will be www.gate.com.”

“That’s right.”

Jeong Hyo-seop smiled brightly as if he liked it.

“All right. Then we will push it to the gate.”

“yes. I know that the establishment of a corporation is in the final stage, but it would be nice if the name of the corporation was confirmed as Gate.”

“yes. I will.”

After the meeting, everyone returned to their seats and focused on the last-minute work to open the Internet.

This meeting was a meeting that decided a lot.

Fortunately, the process for opening the Internet was progressing like water.

In fact, the only thing Hoyoung did in this process was solving errors in programming and giving instructions in a big frame, so there wasn’t that much to do.

But Hoyoung couldn’t just play around.

Turrrr-

The phone rang and Hoyoung answered the phone.

“yes. This is Yun Ho-young.”

– Mr. Hoyoung. Long time no see.

“You are the boss. how are you?”

The person who called Ho-yeong was Jo Jung-sik of fame.

– yes. I’ve been doing well, but I haven’t heard from you since the other day, so I called the word processor to see if things are going well.

“haha. Do not worry. It will all be finished in about two weeks.”

– Is that so? You are really suffering.

“I tried to contact you once. I heard that Qualcomm hasn’t received any offers from reputation yet. When do you think you will implement your plan to enter the telecom business?”

– I think I still have a month or two to spare.

“Then you’d better think about it after finishing the word processor.”

– That’s right.

“All right. If there are any special issues, we will contact you again. I will be able to send you the finished version soon.”

– All right. thank you

Hoyoung was smiling.

Hoyeong, who had been personally revamping Hunminjeongeum for a deal with Jo Jungsik, rewrote Hunminjeongeum very nicely.

In particular, Hoyoung has developed compatibility tremendously.

The reason Cho Hee-chang insisted on using its own program to create internal documents was obvious.

‘Surely, when Myeongseong sends documents to the outside world, it will only send documents made with Hunminjeongeum.’

Myeongseong will only use Hunminjeongeum when writing documents, and will naturally exchange documents made with Hunminjeongeum when exchanging documents with customers or institutions.

If that happens, clients and institutions will have to use Hunminjeongeum to cry and eat mustard, and they will be thinking of trying to eat the office word processor market with the influence of reputation.

‘But there’s no way.’

However, the person upgrading Hunminjeongeum now was Hoyoung.

Hoyeong redesigned Hunminjeongeum and redesigned it so that documents written in Hangeul could be opened in Hunminjeongeum and documents created in Hunminjeongeum could be opened in Hangeul as well.

If you go this far, the ulterior motive of taking over the word processor will be completely ruined.

Hoyeong tapped the keyboard with a smile on her face.

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South Korea was currently seething with the word ‘Internet’.

The advertisement that it is thousands of times faster than PC communication and that anyone can freely write and have their own homepage was enough to excite the X generation, mainly young people.

“If you use PC communication now, you can easily pay 100,000 won for a phone call, but you can use it unlimited times with 35,000 won a month?”

“They say the speed is incomparably faster than current communication. They say it takes about two seconds to download a novel.”

“What? Even now, it takes about 1 minute and 30 seconds.”

“And have you heard of e-mail?”

“What is it?”

“The gate that comes out when you turn on the Internet provides a free e-mail function. With that, there might be no more people sending me letters in the future!”

Whenever there were two or more young people gathered, it was a story related to the Internet, and various research institutes, companies, and even the government were interested in the Internet.

All citizens thought that if the Internet was opened as advertised, a new era would be opened.

After an extensive press release, Hermes Telecom received advance reservations, and as expected, advance reservations surged.

It was safe to say that almost all households that currently have a PC and use PC communication have applied.

Two weeks pass like that.

Finally, the Internet started serving.