Back to 1995

Chapter 144
For this proposal, the reporters and the media who entered the backstage of the San Jose Convention Center all supported it at the same time. If there is no photo and the Internet group is not gathered together, what will these media do?

People from Netscape and Microsoft were all present today. Thinking about the people on both sides standing together, it made these media feel irritated. In addition, Song Yang, who had a big fight with Netscape before, these people stood together , isn't it another famous scene? !
When Song Yang heard this proposal, he glanced at the two founders of Netscape and Myhrvold, the representative of Microsoft, and nodded in agreement.

Without any hesitation, and without letting Xian do anything, Song Yang directly pulled Wesley and stood at the C position, Myhrvold stood on Song Yang's right, Mark Anderson stood on Song Yang's left, and then Yang Zhiyuan , Ferro, and personnel from AOL, Lycos and other companies stood aside one by one.

After entering the Internet industry for a year, Song Yang finally had his own place. Looking at Song Yang standing next to him, Anderson's eyes were a little complicated.

I still remember that half a year ago, when Netscape first went public, it was Anderson who was admired by all the stars, and Song Yang could only stand in an inconspicuous corner of the photo, but now, Song Yang was already standing in the place where he should have been. Where Anderson stood.

But now there is no objection from anyone, which is enough to show that everyone present agrees with this position, and it also shows that the status of Netscape and Anderson has obviously declined, or they agree that at this moment, Song Yang's Internet arena His status is not inferior to his Anderson!
Song Yang, Anderson, Jim Clark, Yang Zhiyuan, Ferro, Whitman, Myhrvold and others stood together, and the reporters present desperately pressed the shutter. Not surprisingly, this photo will appear tomorrow. The front pages of newspapers and magazines in the big technology industry are enough for the media and reporters to make trouble.

Composed of crystal chips and LED lights, the crystal ball can change into thousands of colors. When it was lit up in New York, it officially kicked off on the last night of 1995.

Many TV stations in America began to broadcast the grand New Year's Eve carnival performance in New York according to the usual practice. Many big-name American singers and European stars gathered in Times Square in New York.

San Jose also became noisy at this time, but at this time, the city in the center of Silicon Valley has the largest number of people in the conference center, which can accommodate 5000 people, and it is already full at the moment. , reporters, teachers and students of San Jose University have all gathered here at this moment.

ICQ’s press conference is definitely not as good as the New Year’s Eve meeting in New York’s Times Square, but Song Yang still brought a channel of San Jose’s local TV station, Houston TV station, and Microsoft’s IE browser text live broadcast for ICQ. In the form of text, this conference will be broadcast live to all users.

When the crystal chandelier in New York Times Square was raised, the lights of the San Jose Convention Center began to dim, and then the lights began to light up in front of the stage, and the special giant projector screen also began to light up, and then a sentence appeared on it, " ICQ connects the world!"

The originally noisy conference center began to quiet down. Anderson, Yang Zhiyuan, Myhrvold and other Internet experts all cast their eyes on the ICQ on the projector.

Kevin Kelly, who was sitting in the front row, also took out a small notepad. He is not only here today to join in the fun, or to ease the relationship between Song Yang and Netscape. Needless to say, Kevin's professionalism, tomorrow he will He also made his opinions and comments on the press conference on the official website and magazines of Wired.

Taking a deep breath, he met Song Yang's eyes in the audience, and Wesley had a rehearsed smile on his face, and walked towards the stage.

"I am very glad that you can participate in today's product launch. I know that some people are sitting below, thinking that it is over quickly and going to see the New Year's Eve performance in New York Times Square, but unfortunately, in the next 10 minutes Well, you all need to put up with someone standing on stage right now..."

These remarks caused a burst of laughter from many people at the University of San Jose sitting below. After making fun of himself, Wesley suddenly said seriously, "But it is also possible that in the future you may see the New York Transit that has been held for more than 100 years." Annual meeting, but I will never see today's conference that may redefine the Internet industry!"

Looking at the reaction below, Wesley breathed a sigh of relief. Wesley felt that the orator consultant was not in vain, at least the situation was calmed down now.

"Today's press conference is held for the instant messaging software ICQ established by Mr. Bruno Song, me and the entire team!"

Song Yang gave up part of the title of founder of ICQ to Wesley, but Wesley would not know what to do. He really dared to occupy the title of the father of instant messaging alone. It's already a blessing.

Hearing the words instant messaging and IM software, the people present at San Jose University were just curious, but all the people from the Internet company sat up straight and stared at Wesley on the stage. , The layman watched the excitement, the insider watched the doorway, Yang Zhiyuan, Anderson, Myhrvold and others were all keenly aware that the Internet may have another turmoil with the emergence of ICQ.

"Human beings live in groups, and communication is an instinct that has existed in DNA since the birth of human beings. As the living area of ​​human beings continues to expand, the way of human communication is constantly changing."

"In other words, the change of technology has changed the way of human communication from face-to-face communication to the use of words, books, and flying pigeons. 150 years ago, the appearance of the telegraph made it possible for humans to cross continents and oceans for the first time. Communication, 130 years ago, the appearance of the telephone allowed human beings to listen to the sound with their own ears through a line halfway around the world..."

Wesley talked so much just for the next words, "Now is the Internet age, there should be a new way of communication, which will represent technology and become the most important way of communication for human beings, allowing people to communicate with each other anytime, anywhere. Talk to anyone who wants to communicate, all you need is a computer, a network cable, and ICQ!"

"boom"

There was a huge noise at the scene. Wesley laid the groundwork for so long to set off the greatness of ICQ, and listed it as the same product as the telegraph and telephone, so as to set off the importance of ICQ.

Hearing this, all the Internet companies below always felt that something was wrong, but they couldn't tell. Only Anderson looked at Song Yang, who was a few seats away, and he found out what was wrong. Willis is so weird You're bragging, it's about to go to heaven, Netscape didn't dare to brag like that, Wesley just blew ICQ into something that changed the course of human history...

On the giant projector screen behind Wesley, the ICQ login page began to appear, and Willis explained ICQ to everyone present.

"ICQ supports multiple login methods such as webpage and client. You can apply for registration or use Hotmail to log in. Of course, in the future, ICQ will seek cooperation with more technology companies. For the convenience of users, as long as Netscape, IE, Yahoo, Lycos, AOL and other companies are willing to cooperate with ICQ, then ICQ can allow these users to use the accounts of these partners to log in!"

Hearing this, Jim Clark, Anderson, Yahoo Coorg, and others were all obviously taken aback. The cameraman in charge of directing the scene gave these guys a close-up of their faces. Jim Clark, Anderson squeezed out A stiff smile, they knew that this was a general given by ICQ.

If you don't agree to cooperate with ICQ, it means that Netscape didn't consider users and just wanted to monopolize the Internet, but if you agree, this is an enemy, and all the users who have worked so hard to make wedding dresses for ICQ up.

Another most important point, if you really agree to import users into ICQ, it is equivalent to cutting off the idea of ​​Netscape and other Internet companies entering the field of instant messaging. Willis's words are equivalent to killing three birds with one stone. , Jim Clark glanced at Song Yang unkindly, he didn't believe that Willis could play this trick, no matter how it looked, it looked like Song Yang's handwriting, so don't disgust them with too many tricks!
"ICQ will implement the model of permanent use of free and some value-added services. As you can see, as long as you log in to ICQ, you can find and add friends, and you can start chatting with each other!"

Following Wesley's demonstration, there was a burst of exclamation from time to time, just like Jobs showing the first truly mature smart phone, which shocked countless people on the scene. When the first mature instant messaging software appeared , For the era when Internet products are still scarce, it is nothing more than a ten-magnitude earthquake.

Especially for the young people at the University of San Jose, the appearance of ICQ is too novel and trendy for them.

"You can use ICQ to send texts to your friends, and you can also send emoticons."

Under the instruction of Willis, the ICQ engineer who controlled the computer on the scene sent out several emoticons such as smiling faces, dumbfounding, etc., which caused the scene to become even louder.

Looking at the crowd, Willis said with a smile, "Emoji packs can only be used on ICQ now and in the future. In the future, ICQ will also provide a variety of emoticon packs, and will open the self-made DIY emoticon packs to users later. Permission, I believe, emoticons will become a part of Internet culture!"

Willis's face was exposed, the same expression as the smiley expression pack, but the colleagues sitting below couldn't laugh, they could all hear Willis' subtext, the emoticon pack patent is monopolized by ICQ , In addition to ICQ, any other company should not even think about using this thing.

"In addition to chatting and sending emoticons, ICQ also supports group functions. Now a user can freely form a group of no more than 50 people and chat freely in the group. In the future, more value-added services will be opened. Massive group permissions!"

"In addition, ICQ also has some office functions. ICQ supports office functions such as Hotmail, offline file download, online file transfer, screenshots, and ICQ's direct connection to printers and printing files!"

(End of this chapter)