According to the successful experience of the Internet in the previous life, in the initial stage of the Internet, the only thing that could bring stable income was Internet advertising. Later, with the emergence of search engines, new advertising forms such as bidding rankings were also invented. Just like a mess like Putian Hospital

content.

But there is a problem here. There must be huge Internet users and huge traffic must be captured before there are advertising fees? Otherwise, no one will come to see it, and who will come to advertise?

Since there are currently only a few million Internet users in the world, Internet traffic is inherently limited.

So through advertising fees? It will indeed be a little bit, but it is better than nothing. To put it bluntly, the advertising fees earned are not as much as the cost of renting a server.

In fact, the first Internet companies never found a mature profit model. Many of them were almost on the verge of bankruptcy.

What finally saved these companies: One is Monternet, which is MMS, ring tones and other value-added services; the other is games!

However, g is not yet connected to the Internet, and even text messaging has just been invented. Needless to say, there is no need to talk about mobile phone value-added services, and the hardware conditions do not exist at all.

As for games? The games on PC now...are equivalent to no games.

In addition to the puzzle games like solitaire, there are only some text games left. Like "walk 50 meters east and pick up 15 gold coins", "go west and meet the little witch and be captured back to the magic mountain. You are not shy or impetuous."

20 days together”…

To be honest, the game experience is not that great, but because this period was a desert of computer games, there were still more people playing it. It left many beautiful ancient memories.

The key is that the hardware cannot meet the requirements. It is really not as good as Nintendo and P consoles - simply making professional game consoles. Later, even Microsoft was not optimistic about it, so they launched their own B game console.

You must know that games especially occupy computer configurations. According to the existing computer hardware conditions, if you want everything, then you can't do anything well, and it is worse than a game console with a single function.

But in any case, Li Yuan is very familiar with the future development direction of the Internet.

There is no need to develop search engines, that is, you are burning money and making free contributions. Those whose hardware conditions cannot be met are also not necessary; those that are more sensitive are even less necessary...

After such a deletion, the only thing left is the PC game.

Since the computer configuration cannot be upgraded, can we make some simpler games?

What is assigned to Parallel America is the Parallel community, that is, the Internet community.

In fact, this is a hodgepodge. In this era, free email mailboxes are included. The email mailbox capacity is very small. The main reason is that the price of the server is quite expensive;

Parallel Line homepage. Mainly provides Parallel Line services, supplemented by the latest hot news;

bb forum. It is divided into major sections such as news, sports, entertainment, life, etc. Different from domestic news, which is quoted from foreign countries, there is a fee for citing news. Therefore, the main focus here is hot spot ranking and hot discussion.

Just try to save money and encourage Shaduo netizens to post enthusiastically;

Of course, there is also the food-stealing game. Needless to say, the appeal of food-stealing to netizens?

In this way, the first thing is to give Martin and the others something to do. The Internet community is too big a topic, so Martin and the others can just mess around. After all, they also attach great importance to technology development, right?

But in reality, it is just a matter of finding a dozen programmers, and there is no technical difficulty in these contents. There is no need to burn money at all.

In addition, there is enough traffic.

And in the Parallel Line community, there will also be many open interfaces. In the future, whether you develop social software, e-commerce software, game software, audio and video software, etc., you can easily link with the Parallel Line community.

. Even taxi-hailing software, food delivery software, ticket booking software... can also be integrated into the Parallel Line community.

In terms of Parallel China's arrangements, the first priority to be established is the game project development department.

As for choosing the first game project - Dandelion vs. Zombies! Cough cough cough cough...

Okay! As long as you hear this name, you should know what this game is. It is nothing more than an adaptation of the later phenomenon-level game "Plants vs. Zombies."

From the perspective of game development, this kind of game is relatively simple, has low graphics requirements, and can be run on PCs of this period.

Moreover, there are currently no game development talents in China. So Li Yuan found more than 20 recent college graduates to slowly train a game production team from easy to difficult!

Oh! In this team, Li Yuan also found three...artistic talents from Beijing Dance University! This is a stimulant for those programmers.

For this "Dandelion vs. Zombies", Li Yuan had no budget requirements or time limit requirements. It doesn't matter if it fails, it can be regarded as accumulating some experience.

Anyway, that's it. At present, it's just a low-key follow-up, obscene development, let Netscape act as a fort to attract firepower...

…

Since Parallel Line was established only a short time ago, the internal relations within the company are relatively simple, basically just one word. Now that Li Yuan has decided on the development of Wuxian, others have begun to implement it to the letter.

The first thing is to apply a few patches to the browser so that it cannot lag too far behind the Netscape browser.

The second step is to lower the price of the browser, which is significantly lower than the Netscape browser. However, in the eyes of the outside world, this situation is obviously a sign of weakness.

And such a show of weakness caused Silicon Valley and the media to ignore the parallel lines.

Now that the noise war is already in full swing, and almost all the famous high-tech companies in Silicon Valley have joined in, who will care about an unknown person?

So under this background, the sales volume of the computer industry continues to soar. The market share of Netscape browser has reached 65%, which is about two-thirds, and the valuation on Wall Street has exceeded 200 million US dollars in one fell swoop?

Netscape's miraculous performance once again shocked the United States. How long has it been since then? Netscape's value has actually increased by another US$100 million?

Everyone is confused, and even the market has become crazy. No matter what stock it is, as long as it has a little bit of Internet concept, it will skyrocket immediately? It even violates many traditional investment concepts?

Netscape has also entered the NASDAQ listing schedule, scheduled for March next year, which is March 1995. In the original history, Netscape was officially listed in August 1995!

And according to Wall Street’s latest market outlook analysis, if Netscape can maintain its current growth rate, its total market value is likely to exceed US$1 billion by the time it goes public!

Damn it! How many companies in the United States have a total market value of US$1 billion? Netscape can actually do it easily? And from the time of establishment to the time of listing, only a dozen months have passed, right? From scratch!

From 0 to 1 billion!

Such a miracle made the entire United States tremble.

However, in this carnival, someone finally discovered something was wrong...

Byron is a young reporter at the Los Angeles Times. Since Netscape has become the most handsome guy in the United States, and there are overwhelming reports every day, Byron was assigned by the editor to sort out Netscape's information.

But one night, Byron saw that "Netscape ranks first in the browser market share" and "Netscape has occupied 65% of the browser market" everywhere in the information...

An idea suddenly came to Byron's mind - So what about the remaining 35? Why have I never heard of it?

Out of curiosity, Byron immediately began to inquire into the details.

One thing to say is that the market statistics in the United States are quite mature and complete, and most of them are made public.

Without spending much effort, Byron found out that the second-ranked company is a company called Parallel Network Technology, and its Parallel browser also occupies 31% of the browser market share? What’s even more interesting is that,

This parallel company is actually a local company born and raised in Los Angeles?

You must know that although Silicon Valley and Los Angeles are both in California, Silicon Valley belongs to the San Francisco area and has nothing to do with Los Angeles. Moreover, many high-tech companies in the United States, such as Microsoft and Amazon, which will be established in the future, have actually relocated.

Went to Seattle, Washington?

Damn it! Los Angeles has always claimed to be the largest city in the United States, which is also the largest city in the world. They don’t even think highly of the Big Apple. Didn’t you expect that our Los Angeles is lagging behind in the high-tech industry?

Although the Los Angeles Times is one of the most influential newspapers in the United States, these newspapers and magazines in the United States generally have a strong regional focus. Except... "Playboy. Ahem."

Of course, the news from the Los Angeles Times will be biased towards Los Angeles.

p! We also have a high-tech browser company in Los Angeles, but other media like you only know how to praise Netscape and turn a blind eye to our company? Are you all blind?

Byron immediately became excited, there should be a lot of news to be found in this.

So Byron continued to dig deeper into this parallel company, and the result surprised him - this parallel company was not unknown at all. At least many users on the Internet knew that this company was the "King of Home Pages"!

In this era, when high-tech companies want to promote advertising and expand their influence, they mainly use traditional media. That is, advertising on TV, newspapers and periodicals.

However, in order to save money and keep a low profile, and because of the philosophy left behind by Li Yuan in his previous life, Parallel Lines never advertised in traditional media, but only sent mass spam emails.

Therefore, it can be said that it has very little social influence and is almost unknown to outsiders. However, it has a great reputation in the small circles of the Internet, and is at least the "king of homepages".

As the digging continued, Byron was surprised to find: Damn it! The founder of Parallel Line was a Chinese named Li; Damn it! The "Yan Na Bah Bah Bah Shoot Dandelion" computer disease was developed by this Li;

Damn it! He once developed a detection program, and he had a share of the credit for the 5 billion bank case that caused a sensation in the United States. Damn it! Li actually has his own film and television company and invested in several Hollywood movies. Damn it!

!Li is also the boss of a listed company in Hong Kong; holy shit! He is actually Chinese, not us Americans; holy shit! He is actually a historian and has published a very controversial military bestseller; holy shit!

!Li is only about 20 years old, and has never gone to college. He was originally a poor farmer in mainland China. Holy shit! Li actually has a trading company to purchase our American... god-like chicken feet...?

Byron felt a little dizzy. What the hell is all this stuff? But then he became excited. Isn't this a treasure boy? He will definitely dig out big news.

Without any hesitation, Byron took his camera and rushed to the headquarters of Parallel America.

However, when Byron got off the bus in front of that small building, he couldn't help but be shocked by the scene in front of him.

I saw that the door of the small building was crowded with people. A fat black woman was holding a pointer and kept swearing in her mouth, asking the group of people to obey the order...

After Byron took a few photos, he quickly squeezed in front of Aunt Black.

But before Byron could say anything, Aunt Black glared: "Fakeyu! Where did you come from, you little bastard? Get in line at the back. Otherwise, I'll deduct 100 US dollars from you!"

Byron quickly took out his press pass: "Sorry, I'm a reporter from the Los Angeles Times. I want to interview your Parallel Line Company. Is your boss here?"

When she heard that it was a reporter, the fat aunt quickly smiled: "You can go inside and find a man named Martin. He is in charge here now. These little bastards are too shameful. If I hadn't given birth to eight children, I would have a lot to take care of.

Children’s experience, how can they be honest and obedient?”

Byron was a little strange: "Madam, why are there so many people here? What do they do?"

The fat aunt smiled and introduced: "The company outsources business to them, like the homepage and so on. I don't understand it very well. They can get hundreds of dollars for completing an order. Have you seen that person? You have already done it this month.

I have received more than a dozen transactions..."

Byron was even more confused: "Are you here at Parallel Network Technology?"

"Yes! It's a parallel line."

"Then don't you make browsers?"

"Browser? What is that? I don't know, you should ask Martin inside!"

"Martin? What about your boss Li?"

"I've never seen him before. I'm new here too. It's because the order here is so chaotic that Mr. Huo Laien found me. I'm the only one who can make these brats obey. Haha!"

"..."

Byron felt that what he had heard was confused, and he couldn't help but become more interested.
Chapter completed!