After Zhang Zuohai contacted Dong Yudao, he would send an email whenever he encountered any questions related to "Old Books".
As long as I have time, I will usually go back to Yudong.
The two had been chatting for about a week when Yu Dong received an email from Zhang Zuohai, but this email did not ask about the "Old Book", but mentioned the deep space instant messaging software.
[Brother Yudao, the website is currently recruiting for internal testing of Dongdong. Are you participating? 】
When Yu Dong saw this email, he had just finished selecting numbers with Yu Hua and the others.
The instant messaging software developed by Deep Space was eventually named Dongdong, and its abbreviation was DD.
At first, Yu Dong thought of calling everyone together to come up with a more elegant name. Some employees suggested some names based on Yu Dong's ideas, such as taking the swan goose from the biography of the swan goose, or even making the logo into a swan goose.
As a package, there are similar flying pigeons and the like.
But then Jimmy suggested not to make it too complicated, but to make it simple and catchy.
Everyone chose and chose, and they chose Dong Dong.
Dongdong is the message prompt sound of the software, which simulates a knock on the door. It is simple, easy to remember, and catchy.
The reason why Jimmy finally decided on the name "Dongdong" is because "Dongdong" sounds a bit like "Dongdong", which is similar to the name of the company boss Yudong.
As for the logo, it is a blue dove that has just spread its wings.
Dongdong will start its internal testing next week, so it has been recruiting netizens on the website to participate in the internal testing recently.
There are 2,000 places for this internal test, which will last for two to three months. The public test will not be open until early next year.
Netizens have shown sufficient enthusiasm for this instant messaging software. According to the official internal beta user recruitment post, as of today when Yu Dong and the others selected numbers, nearly 30,000 netizens had signed up.
Of course, Yu Dong and others have priority in this internal test, so Yu Dong arranged quotas for Yu Hua and others, and let them choose their own "beautiful numbers" before the official start of the internal test. Except for those with consecutive numbers like 666666, they cannot
In addition to choosing, they can choose other six-digit numbers.
Yu Hua made the first move and chose 123456. Bi Feiyu followed closely and chose 654321. Basically, he chose consecutive numbers.
Cheng Yanqiu chose 556517. When everyone asked her why she chose this series of numbers, she laughed and said nothing.
After Yu Hua and the others left, Cheng Yanqiu told Yu Dong that this was the numerical score of "Happy Birthday to You", and this was also the first piano piece that Yu Dong played for her.
As for Yu Dong himself, he uses the wedding anniversary of him and Cheng Yanqiu: 950910.
Looking at Zhang Zuohai's email, Yu Dong certainly couldn't tell him that he already had a Dongdong account. He just replied: I participated, and I don't know if I can be drawn.
[Zhang Zuohai: Haha, I also participated. I heard that this instant messaging software is very easy to use and communication is much faster than email. However, there are many people participating, 20,000 to 30,000, and the chance of being selected is less than 10%.
One, and if we want to communicate, we must have Dongdong at the same time. In this case, the probability is less than one percent. And this is not over yet. I don’t know how many people will sign up in the future.】
[Dong Yudao: Haha, Teacher Zhang, although you are from the Chinese Department, you are quite good at probability theory. But didn’t the official say that it is not purely based on probability, but also depends on the user’s activity on the website. They are in internal testing.
, naturally I hope to find someone who spends a lot of time online. You have a lot of time online, so the chance is higher than many people.】
【Zhang Zuohai: I accept your good wishes.】
[Dong Yudao: I look forward to chatting with you using Dongdong.]
[Zhang Zuohai: Haha, me too. 】
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In fact, Dongdong is not the only instant messaging software that Chinese netizens can choose, because after a period of development, icq has entered the Chinese market. However, not many netizens use icq. After the mailbox service was opened in Shenzhen, many
Some people would rather use email to communicate than use icq.
The reason for this situation is that icq is very unfriendly to Chinese netizens. The most criticized point is that icq stores user content and friend lists on the computer client.
This problem may not be obvious to Americans, because the computer penetration rate in the United States is now quite high, and many people have their own computer.
But in China, this problem is infinitely magnified because many people do not have their own computers.
The number of Chinese Internet users has increased rapidly in the past two years, and a large part of the reason is the establishment of Internet cafes.
Since Jimmy recommended everyone to open Internet cafes and successfully set a demonstration, Internet cafes have sprung up all over the country. Up to now, there are more than 10,000 Internet cafes across the country.
When Internet cafes first appeared, the cost of using the Internet for an hour was as high as thirty or forty yuan, which few people could afford. However, after the development of the past two years, the Internet fee has been successfully reduced to about ten yuan an hour, which is much more affordable for the people.
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However, if these netizens use their icq in Internet cafes, they cannot retain their user content and friend lists.
Just imagine how annoying it would be when they go online from another computer and the original content and friend list are gone.
In addition, the current domestic Internet bandwidth is basically 14k, 28k, and even 54k is relatively small. An icq software is close to 5m, and it takes dozens of minutes to download it.
icq can only chat with online friends. There is no offline messaging function. You cannot add strangers as friends. The chat box and user avatar have no personality...
Since it has nothing, why should anyone use it? It would be better to use a mailbox or at least change a computer so that the previous emails can be retained.
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"Mr. Yu, I still feel that the open beta quota of 2,000 is a bit too low."
In the Deep Space Company, in the general manager's office, when the newly recruited third assistant gave him a document to sign, he couldn't help but say something.
Yiliang signed the document, and then looked at the young man in front of him with a smile.
"Oh? Then how open do you think it should be?"
"Nearly 60,000 people have signed up now. If the distribution is based on a ratio of one-twentieth, 3,000 places should be open. Moreover, we have been testing this software internally for a long time, and it should be fine. This time
We can open more quotas appropriately and seize the market as soon as possible." The assistant took a breath and continued: "Although our deep space is now the leader in computer networks, the Internet era is changing rapidly, and maybe there will be another one tomorrow.
A piece of software to compete with us.”
After listening to what the assistant said, Yuliang smiled and nodded, "Indeed, the two thousand quota is a bit small."
Seeing that the general manager agreed with his point of view so quickly, the assistant was a little surprised, "Then general manager, you still..."
"Xiao Zhou, your idea is correct, but you have just arrived and there are many things you don't know yet." Yu Liang smiled and asked: "Xiao Zhou, when will we release the quota for the internal beta?"
"The results will be announced on time at midnight on December 26th."
"Then do you know what else is going on in our company today?"
Xiao Zhou thought for a moment, his eyes lit up, and he said: "It's "The Tuner" and "Party A and Party B" being released. Mr. Yu, are you saying there will be a connection between these two things..."
Chapter completed!