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Chapter 148 Chopping melons and vegetables
More than [-] registered users in a single day. No one knows better than Anderson and Jim Clark what this means and what it means in today's Internet age.

If the previous Hotmail mailbox had gone through a buffer period before it started to explode, then ICQ didn't talk about martial arts at all, and it was full of firepower when it came up. live!
"Nielsen data believes that ICQ users on the first day will exceed the mark of [-], and may even exceed [-]!"

Baxter knew that Anderson didn't want to hear this, but he still said it. This was a matter of Netscape's life and death. Even if they didn't want to hear it, there was nothing they could do about it.

"We can no longer confront Bruno Song. We need to improve our relationship with him. Even if it is impossible to bring ICQ to the Netscape camp, we must not allow it to fall to Microsoft like Hotmail. Netscape cannot afford it. Such a loss!"

Looking at the data in front of him, Jim Clark understood that another Internet hit product in Song Yang's hands was about to be born, but now Netscape was a little too high.

Thinking of this, Jim Clark felt a sense of bleakness. Netscape is still sitting on a market value of billions of dollars, and it looks like a bright future. However, in order to ensure liquidity, it is no longer possible to participate in the war of instant messaging. !

Anderson took a deep breath, "Even if Netscape is willing to maintain a good relationship with ICQ, no one can predict what that small farmer in Houston will do!"

"He won't sell ICQ to Microsoft again, I promise!"

Jim Clark looked at Anderson and said affirmatively, "If he wants to sell ICQ, he will never do all this. Then, maybe he will have to support Netscape. I know what kind of person he is."

Jim Clark is also a veteran of the Internet, and he can be said to have read countless people. If Song Yang didn't understand what he wanted to do before, Jim has fully understood it now. Song Yang is using Netscape as a shield to challenge Microsoft or other Internet companies. Perhaps Song Yang never cared about the company raising the price for Netscape.

When mentioning this, Jim Clark couldn't hide his frustration. When Song Yang really secretly supported Netscape, it meant that Song Yang didn't want to lose Netscape's price-raising shield, and Netscape was really in decline!

When the report on the first day of ICQ launch released by Nielsen data was released, everyone watching the theater was shocked. This has already set a new Internet record.

In the next week, instant messaging and social networking became the most popular terms in the Internet industry. When major Internet and technology media reported news every day, if these two terms were not mentioned, it seemed that they were not chasing hot spots at all.

ICQ also staged a violent road to the Internet peers in America and even the world this week!
After the record of over 27 new registered users was staged in a single day, ICQ doubled its strength on the second day with a more violent attitude, allowing ICQ global registered users to exceed [-] within two days, shocking the global technology industry.

The reason why ICQ can attract the attention of the entire technology industry is that its performance is too violent. It is even more terrifying than the "virus marketing model" of Hotmail mailboxes. As long as a city has its first ICQ user, the next day the One hundred, two hundred or even more new users can be added in just one city. There has never been a product in human history that can have such an explosive promotion speed.

What makes countless technology companies dumbfounded is that even though ICQ is still mainly in English, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, German and other versions have not yet been launched, but ICQ has spread to these non-English versions.

In Asia and Eastern Europe, where the Internet is still underdeveloped, those users are not used to the English version, so they use ICQ to communicate with classmates and friends, or search for strangers to chat, even if it is just for chatting. Duzi or posting an emoticon package, new users can forcibly bear high Internet fees, just to let ICQ display the online status, and when they receive a message, these users can be excited for a long time...

The emergence of ICQ seems to be used to break the traditional perception of the Internet industry. When it quickly swept across the global users at a rate of doubling every day, the American media had to raise a question mark.

"Who can stop ICQ?"

"Where is the end of ICQ?!"

Under the media's questioning, ICQ set a record of 63 new users after three days of going online. After five days of going online, the number of users broke 130 million. At the seventh time, the growth rate of new users seems to have stabilized. If the number of new users exceeds 50, it is considered stable, then ICQ has indeed begun to "stabilize"...

When the week ended, the entire Internet industry in America breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously. ICQ dominated Silicon Valley and the Internet industry this week.

Microsoft and Netscape have also made countless technology companies feel a sense of dominance, but that slowly formed, and the frogs have at least a reaction time when they are boiled in warm water, but ICQ is really scary, just like an elevator rising from the ground in an instant. At a height of [-] meters, people with a bad heart will disappear in place, and ICQ will give this feeling to everyone in the same industry.

And just as everyone focused on ICQ, cutting melons and vegetables, and harvesting users all over the world, the Wall Street Journal suddenly broke the news about ICQ, which took a breath of cold air from the entire technology industry.

"ICQ, the world's first online instant messaging, is currently attracting the attention of countless users, and it is occupying the emerging Internet "social" industry established by Bruno Song at an unimaginable speed.

The market and profit prospects of the social networking industry are still unknown, but ICQ is creating a new record. The NFT avatars and pictures launched by ICQ are rapidly affecting the entire collection industry.

According to current data, the NFT foundation established by ICQ has already sold 248 transactions, and more than 1700 NFT avatars have been sold. The overall turnover has exceeded 2540 million US dollars, making it the company with the highest revenue in the Internet industry this year!

At present, many auction houses such as Fujibi and Christie's have accepted the auction of NFT avatars. In the future, this business may bring ICQ higher revenue!
However, NFT also has many controversies. Whether the global copyright claimed by NFT infringes the interests of other Internet companies, whether NFT pictures are really valuable, etc., are still the focus of debate. However, more than a dozen Internet companies and platforms have announced that they will enter NFT market. "

The report of the Wall Street Journal let all Internet companies know for the first time that ICQ's NFT business is so profitable, it can be called a money-absorbing artifact, a small avatar, plus a certificate from the NFT Foundation, that's all it takes Grabbing money, the entire Internet industry is a little bit ready to move for a while!

"Song, may I know why you launched the ICQ product?!"

In the entire Internet industry in America, the function of ICQ is being discussed and it has swept the global users to refresh the record. When NFT harvested IQ tax, the latest thickened magazine published by Wired magazine published Kevin Kelly's ICQ Interview, this interview magazine, was sold out on the same day, the highest sales volume since the first edition of Connect Magazine!
The cover of this issue of Wired is naturally ICQ, and the accompanying text is "the world's first instant messaging software". At Song Yang's request, Wired put the photos of Song Yang and Willis on the cover above.

Although ICQ publicized the two founders and Willis was the speaker at the press conference, Kevin Kelly couldn't tell who was the real founder of ICQ.

As soon as he came up, Kevin Kelly asked Song Yang.

"I have always admired the symbol of Internet culture, which is more free and convenient. Everyone is the protagonist of the Internet, but the Internet before the emergence of ICQ was blocked. It may only take a few seconds for an email to be sent to received. But it's not so easy to contact someone!"

Song Yang answered Kevin Kelly's question, "So, I want to build a telegram or telephone on the Internet platform, using Internet technology, so that users can realize "face-to-face" communication. ICQ is also the painstaking effort of Willis. He Give everything for ICQ!"

Song Yang did not forget to brag about the eager Willis. To build an Internet giant, he needs to give Willis enough exposure. In future ICQ interviews, Song Yang is going to hand over to Willis to show up.

"So Song, what do you think the social industry will be in the entire Internet industry in the future?!" Kevin glanced at his notepad, and asked Song Yang.

This question is difficult to answer. If social networking is important, all major Internet companies will rush to enter. If it is not important, what is going on with ICQ launched by Song Yang, and it also negates everything that ICQ has done for so long. !
Song Yang was silent for a while, and then said, "In the future, the Internet industry should form several major industries, and social networking should be one of them. In this industry, whether ICQ becomes the winner or new players enter the market, it will be there. , there may be new forms, but it will not disappear, because human beings...need to communicate!"

Song Yang's words on Wired magazine have been interpreted by many media and Internet companies, especially the major Internet industries that Song Yang said have become hot spots. This is the first time since the Internet became popular two years ago. Someone once proposed that the generalization of the Internet industry and which industries can become important industries of the Internet have also been debated by countless people.

Regardless of the debates outside, the ICQ office building erupted with cheers at the moment. After staying up for a week, when the technology, operation and other departments were on vacation, ICQ issued high bonuses and various subsidies, which stimulated ICQ and others. The staff in the department can't wait for another week!
(End of this chapter)