Everything has climaxes and low tides. In the early mid-20th century, quantum physics made rapid progress, which was one after another, shocking the world. In the middle and late 20th century, it entered a period of low tide dominated by reflection and accumulation. Many scientific researchers could not find a breakthrough, buried their papers and did nothing, so Chen Dayou said that the Institute of Quantum Physics is a place for elderly people and idle people.

This is just a joke. If it is a place for retirement, the Chinese Academy of Sciences will not have much effort to connect the institute to the Internet early.

In fact, the Institute of Quantum Physics was established when it was engaged in the construction of the third line and specialized in theoretical work related to nuclear weapons, so it was highly valued. At that time, several great people of academician level were in charge here, but those who died later died and those who were transferred were transferred. By 1995, only Academician Hou Chengzong was left here.

After the domestic and international situation eased in the 1980s, the Institute of Quantum Physics changed from a military-colored confidential institution to a scientific research and teaching base under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and gradually became well-known to the general public. However, even so, the security work of the institute was still very strict, and passes were required to enter and exit. When Du Qiu came before, if Chen Dayou had no guarantee, he would not have been able to enter at all.

The scientific research base was originally insulated from commercial enterprises, and Snapdragon Software Company could place the temporary office location here. First, it had a relationship between Chen and his son. Second, the institute had just opened the Internet and just needed experts who knew the knowledge to train teachers and students. Both parties benefited each other and each took the needs, so a cooperation agreement was successfully reached.

"Hey, Mr. Du, these reporters are really capable and come to the door so quickly."

Du Qiu, who was closing his eyes and pretending to sleep, opened his eyes and saw several reporters holding cameras quarrel with the security guard at the gate of the institute, so he lowered the seat to avoid being seen outside, and said, "Drive directly in, don't worry about them."

Jiang Danfeng has been in and out frequently these days, and has become familiar with the security protection. He has not even shown his pass. He immediately released it when he arrived at the door. Several reporters are very clever. Although they can't see the people in the car clearly, they guessed that it was related to Snapdragon Software Company, so they raised their camera and slapped the butt of the car.

"Mr. Du, these reporters have even found the research institute. Will they harass Sister Chunhua?"

"If you go to the company to harass me, my sister will beg for it. She just uses their pen to make free advertisements. However, people are not allowed to harass you at home. When you go to the train station to pick up Li Jianhua, you will first go downstairs and at the door of our house to post a few notices." Du Qiu thought for a while and said the content of the notice: "No reporter is allowed to enter without invitation, otherwise... why do you think it is better to threaten?"

Jiang Danfeng was inspired by the words downstairs and at the door of our house, and said viciously: "Otherwise, the family will be uneasy and the work will not be secure!"

"You are cruel enough." Du Qiu laughed and said, "Even if the family is uneasy, even if it is a gangster in the underworld, it is important that a family member is not as bad as his family. Just write about work but not guaranteed."

"good."

The company's office is located at the very bottom of the research institute. It is a material warehouse built before when preparing for war and famine. It has a simple appearance, thick walls, and a very large interior space, with more than 1,000 square meters, but there are not many windows, only four, which looks a bit dim, which is completely opposite to the warehouse in Wired magazine.

After Du Qiu rented the warehouse, he only did three things. The first thing was to clean it up and thoroughly clean it inside and out. The second thing was to install several rows of fluorescent lights in the form of suspended ceilings. The third thing was to buy some high-end office desks, chairs and equipment, and arrange it randomly into four areas and serve as the offices of each working group.

This arrangement is very simple, but Du Qiu intentionally did it. He gave Qin Mu and Xiao Wu 18 recruitment quotas, and he would recruit several fresh graduates locally in Yuncheng. Now the company is invented, and there is neither a human resources department nor an employee training department. So many newcomers come in, with high quality and low abilities, strong and weak abilities. Put everything on the table, breaking the perfunctory and concealed space, and quickly eliminate employees whose personality or ability does not meet the requirements. At the same time, they can also train employees by hearing and teaching by example, change their thinking mode as quickly as possible and improve their technical level.

When Du Qiu walked into the warehouse, Xu Yongrui was sitting in front of a computer in the office software development zone, chatting with Yuan Tiangang while reading the code. He flew over this morning, and there was also a beautiful girl with him. It is said that she was temporarily hooked up to visit Yuncheng and stayed there for a few days before leaving.

Yuan Tiangang was not recruited by Du Qiu, but Chen Dayou. A while ago, he wanted to use the low labor costs in China to collect websites from Yahoo and other popular websites, make a homepage and tie it to iView. He originally planned to let Chen Dawei do it, but Chen Dawei despised it too cumbersome and had no technical content, so he handed it over to Yuan Tiangang. This guy is not only full of energy, but also very good at taking advantage of the situation, which is very consistent with Chen Dayou's temperament, so he recruited him in to do odd jobs and do some things with relatively low technical content.

"Mr. Du."

"Da Yuan, do your own thing, don't hello me."

Du Qiu stopped Yuan Tiangang from welcome without any need, walked straight to a computer on the innermost side of the right, turned on the email sending and receiving software, and prepared to send a few emails. Jiang Danfeng called a notice next to him, copied a few copies and left.

Once theory and practice are linked, they will burst out with great power. When Du Qiu went to the United States at the end of March, the four open source software articles published in January were still only circulated in the small circle of programmers. However, after the release of iView browser, the newly created English term "open-source" quickly heated up and appeared frequently in reports from mainstream media in the industry, greatly pushing Du Qiu's popularity.

As he became famous, he would have more friends. Du Qiu's email list already has hundreds of friends, including many world-renowned top programmers and computer experts. It would be convenient to do things with more friends. He didn't have to ask Chen Dayou to contact the copyright at all. He wrote an email that he wanted to translate "C Programming Language Design" and sent it to several friends who worked at Princeton University and Bell Labs in a group, asking them to help contact the two authors of the book.

After sending it, Du Qiu began to read the newly received emails. In May, the United States implemented the summer time. The time difference between Yuncheng and San Jose was one hour less. When he went to Sanjiang University at 11 am, it was 8 pm on May 1 in the United States. As we all know, many programmers are night owls and like to work at night, so they received dozens of emails in just four or five hours.

There were almost no messy spam emails in 1995. Each one was very meaningful, some discussed theories, some asked questions, some applied for interviews, and some invited speeches. After Du Qiu replied one by one, he opened two emails from Chen Dayou.

At 8 a.m. on May 1, Western Time, Chen Dayou upgraded the iView browser version from 1.2 to 1.3. There was no change in function, but he built-in the icard homepage he made himself. The homepage was made very simple, exactly the same as those rogue navigation websites in the 21st century. There are advertising areas on the top and left and right sides, and promotion areas in the middle. There are more than a dozen small columns such as "News", "Company", "Financial", and "Sports". Each column contains 8 websites. The names of the first three websites use iScript to create a vulgar dynamic effect, implying that these three websites are very popular.

The first email was a good news, saying that the 1.3 version of iView browser downloads exceeded 30,000 in 12 hours, which is much more than expected. With this number as a backing, you can feel at ease and boldly go to those websites to ask for advertising fees.

The iView browser was originally released only in the Windows version. Du Qiu released the DOS version before leaving San Jose, and was soon transplanted to different operating systems such as FreeBSD, Linux and Unix, circulating everywhere in a divergent state. According to information released by several data survey companies in the United States at the end of April, the iView browser has about 450,000 to 500,000 users, accounting for about 8% of the global browser market. Although it is far less than Netscape-Navigator's, the growth rate is amazing.

If Netscape hadn't been eager for quick success and instant benefits, and charged upgrade fees and bugs, it wouldn't have been so easy for iView...

It doesn’t matter if the product is not good. As long as the peers are well set off, you can still make a lot of money...

Chen Dayou originally planned to charge $8,000 for three banner ads, the top three websites charged $3,000 for advertising fees, and the bottom five websites charged $2,000 for a month. This price is very unscrupulous in China, but it is very conscientious in the United States. You should know that the official website of Wired magazine only has about 1,000 views per day, and the price of home page advertising banners for a month is as high as $15,000. Many companies are eager to pay for it and are rushing to pay.

But in this email, Chen Dayou changed his mind because he learned a new advertising model from a search engine company called Infoseek, which is to charge for a fee of $20 per thousand views and $50 per thousand views. Although he did not make a profit in the early stages of doing so, with the increase of iView browser users, he would make more money in the future.

This decision made Du Qiu look at Chen Dayou with admiration, thinking that he was already an excellent CEO. Infoseek was one of the four major search engines in the world in the mid-to-late 1990s. He staged a cruel search engine war with Yahoo, Lycos, and Excite around 1997. The result of the war directly gave birth to the birth of a "portal website". The main profit model of a portal website is to charge advertising fees by relying on thousands of people to browse or clicks.

At first I could see the value of my four articles at a glance, and later I saw the business opportunities of making a browser at a glance. Now I saw which charging model is better at a glance...

This fat man's eyes are so vicious...

At the end of the email, Chen Dayou notified Du Qiu in a teasing manner, saying that Zhou Yuan had arrived in San Jose, and lamented that he finally had a little brother for command and was no longer alone.

Zhou Yuan had been active in Beijing for two months, and helped Snapdragon Software become famous in China with bare hands. Now Snapdragon Software has moved from Beijing to Yuncheng and has entered a down-to-earth hard work. There is no need to blow balloons for the time being, so he was sent to the United States to help Chen Dayou be responsible for media communication and advertising marketing.
Chapter completed!