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Chapter 80 From Corsica to Paris

The Internet communities and forums in America are not popular yet, but there are many places that need to use e-mail.

On the day Hotmail was launched, the employees of the company who had business dealings with Double-Click Company first came into contact with the Hotmail mailbox, and Double-Click Company opened the mailbox by issuing invitation rights.

Eric is a member of a small company in Silicon Valley. After opening the Hotmail mailbox, he started to use the Hotmail mailbox. After all, it is really convenient to use.

And after making phone calls with several clients, they were also invited by Eric to enter the Hotmail mailbox. Before he knew it, Eric sent out all the five invitation rights in his hand.

By the time I get off work, Eric and other company personnel have already started using Hotmail mailboxes with their customers. Not to mention the functions and memory size, only one URL is needed to log in to the mailbox on any computer. , which is powerful enough for Eric and the others.

While packing up his things and preparing to leave the office, Eric suddenly received another call. After hearing the voice on the phone, Eric couldn't help but say, "Hotmail invitation right?"

The call came from a partner who wanted to "borrow" a Hotmail mailbox invitation right from Eric, and turned on the computer again. Eric, who was about to send an invitation right, suddenly saw five invitations in his Hotmail mailbox. Yards, it's all used up.

There is no way, Eric can only borrow one from his colleagues. What Eric did not expect is that he asked several people in succession, and even used up the invitation codes, some for customers, and some for friends. Opened a Hotmail mailbox The five invitation codes are not used at all!

Eric never thought that one day, he would struggle for an invitation code. After struggling for a long time and making a round of phone calls, Eric finally got a Hotmail email invitation from a person who just opened Hotmail code.

Looking at the Hotmail mailbox on the computer screen, Eric suddenly realized that since he started using this Hotmail mailbox, in less than an afternoon, he has pushed this mailbox to no less than seven or eight customers and followers. friend.

The right to invite is used even more, and it is enough to start "borrowing". Eric suddenly felt that this method of implementing Hotmail mailboxes seems a bit special!
This scene also happened at Stanford University, which has the closest relationship with Silicon Valley. Starting from the afternoon, the words "Hotmail" and "right to invite" suddenly appeared more and more frequently in Stanford University.

The phenomenon of pulling people's heads has even begun to appear. Without Hotmail's painstaking efforts in promotion, when the first person from Stanford University started to use Hotmail, the "Hotmail invitation right" suddenly became popular.

Stanford University is not the last one. When a university starts, it means that the entire American university circle has begun to have Hotmail mailboxes.

Curiosity killed the cat, and the same is true for people. The half-covered method makes people who have access to Hotmail mailboxes but cannot use them very itchy.

In the Harbor Building in Houston, Song Yang stayed in the office of the Hotmail mailbox since the Hotmail mailbox went online.

"Currently, Hotmail has 3100 registered users, and the number of website visits is still increasing!"

Towards the afternoon, Wesley reported to Song Yanghui, feeling somewhat lost in his words, which was completely different from what he had expected. Today, Hotmail also invested a lot of connections and funds in promotion. As a result, until now, only So point registered user.

On the day of launch, more than 3000 registered users, which is not low in this era, but Wesley knows that Double-Click Company, Wang An, Yahoo and other companies have invested a lot of resources, this achievement is really not much qualified.

"It's just the beginning. Your technical department needs to confirm the server and solve the problems with the mailbox!"

No matter how he feels in his heart, Song Yang must not show any dissatisfaction or worry on his face, otherwise the Hotmail mailbox project department will basically collapse.

In fact, Song Yang was also a little nervous. The promotion method he made for the Hotmail mailbox, the link attached to the email and the registration method of invitation rights, are really advanced in this modern age, and Song Yang is not sure whether it can be accepted.

"Double-click the message from the cooperative company, and ask the Hotmail mailbox to provide a batch of invitation codes!" Irene, who came up from downstairs, said to Song Yang.

Hearing this, Wesley's eyes were filled with anticipation. If he wanted the right to invite Hotmail mailboxes, it meant that someone was using Hotmail mailboxes. This was undoubtedly good news for Wesley today!

Song Yang thought for a while, and said to Wesley, "Give a batch of invitation rights to the partners of the double-click company. In addition, on the official website of Hotmail, a batch of invitation rights will be issued every day, but not too many. The right to invite must be published on the official website and shared with users!"

In the evening, Song Yang ate a fast food casually in the office building, and then waited for news from Wesley to see how many registered users Hotmail would have today.

But when it was almost midnight, Song Yang didn't wait for Wesley to come, just when Song Yang was about to go there in person, he saw Wesley rushing in hastily.

"Boss, there are more than [-] registered people!" Wesley said to Song Yang excitedly.

Song Yang was also taken aback. In the afternoon, there were only more than 3000 registered people. After a few hours, it more than doubled? !
Since the afternoon, the growth rate of Hotmail mailbox users has been increasing, and the growth rate has continued to increase, which is why Wesley came in half a day.

"Now the number of visits to Hotmail's official website is increasing, and the frequency of registered users using Hotmail mailboxes is increasing, and there are also European users!" Wesley said to Song Yang.

Song Yang nodded and poured Wesley a glass of water, "I said, don't worry, Hotmail is the best email in this era!"

When Wesley left, Song Yang unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. The success or failure of the Hotmail mailbox project may not hurt Song Yang, but if it fails, the follow-up plans may be disrupted. .

"Hotmail, a new Internet e-mail brand, registered more than [-] users on the first day of its launch. This is a new e-mail product with a lot of creativity!"

The next day, media in the technology industry reported on the performance of Hotmail on the first day of its launch, but they did not pay too much attention to the reports on Hotmail, and there is still no large-scale promotion of Hotmail in the media, and it is still on the Internet. spread among users.

On the second day after its launch, Hotmail was featured in the "Oakland Tribune", one of the four major newspapers in San Francisco.

"Hotmail mailbox is a brand-new modern electronic mailbox, which is very popular among young Internet users!" This is a report from the Auckland Tribune. On this day, the number of registered users of Hotmail mailbox exceeded [-] in a single day.

And if someone collects it, in the past few days, the American technology media will find a very interesting phenomenon in the report on the Hotmail mailbox.

Just like the Paris media, when they reported that Nahuangan returned to Paris from Corsica, they would find that there are similarities.

On the first day, the media in Paris wrote about Napoleon as a "monster from Corsica". On the second day, he was an ogre king. He became General Napoleon, and Napoleon, who returned to Paris on the sixth day, became His Majesty Napoleon in the description of the newspaper.

The same is true for the media in America now. The Oakland Tribune's coverage of Hotmail mailboxes is also constantly changing.

From the first day of reporting, it was just a new e-mail. At that time, there were less than [-] registered users of Hotmail.

"Hotmail is changing the office industry in America, it is sweeping the office industry in America!"

This is the third day of reports on Hotmail. On this day, Hotmail has acquired [-] users in a single day in America, which is almost equivalent to the total number of registered users in the two days since its launch.

"There is reason to believe that Bruno Song is the genius of the Internet in this era. Hotmail is becoming a phenomenon-level product. From Stanford to Harvard, from Massachusetts to Princeton, the sound of hotmail is being heard." On this day, Hotmail registration It took less than a week to reach [-] users.

"Hotmail will enter the Canadian market today. It has gained [-] users in Europe, and now it is beginning to conquer global Internet users!"

The Oakland Tribune’s praise for Hotmail mailboxes is no longer concealed, because Hotmail mailboxes are located in the United States. It took less than a week for Hotmail mailboxes to go from zero to 20 users, and it took less than three days to go from [-] to [-]. !

In Europe, the trend is also overwhelming. The old European aristocrats who have always looked down on the American brand can't resist the storm created by Hotmail.

The Oakland Tribune is not the only one touting Hotmail, the entire American media suddenly began to tout Hotmail overnight, and Silicon Valley suddenly fell into a frenzy because of Hotmail.

(End of this chapter)