reborn in america

At the beginning of September, Nirvana made a small move, buying the largest bbs in North America, the information exchange column in Los Angeles, at a premium of only 30 US dollars.

The reason why this BBS has such a strange name is because the full name of BBS is electronic bulletin board. It was originally a place to publish various information such as stock prices. With the popularization of computers and the development of technology, especially The emergence of FIDO software in 1984 enabled BBS to have the functions of station connection and automatic mutual transmission of information, so it gradually shifted from a simple information release column to a site for Internet users to communicate.

Although the Los Angeles information exchange column is known as the largest BBS forum in the United States, it actually only has tens of thousands of permanent users, and since it was originally provided to Los Angeles users, these permanent users are basically Los Angeles users. and people in the California area.

In fact, Adam’s acquisition is mainly to save time. After all, it takes time to recruit employees, redevelop, and get familiar with relevant arrangements. Since it costs hundreds of thousands directly, why waste time?

Adam acquired this BBS, and at the same time took over all their employees, including the founder Kevin Harris, and directly expanded the original team of ten people to twenty people, doubling it.

Because what Adam wants is not a small BBS with tens of thousands of users, he hopes to increase it tenfold in the shortest possible time. You must know that the number of Internet users (in the autumn of 1993) has exceeded 500 million, and it is still rising wildly. If one tenth of the people know and have been to the value contained in it, it is immeasurable.

Before the listing of Eden 2.0, Adam and Carol held a Nirvana company's autumn general meeting. At this meeting, Adam proposed three main directions behind the company: the first is to consolidate the foundation of the Eden browser , continue to increase functions and improve functions; the second is to increase content, the so-called increased content is to provide users with the services they need in other aspects, and firmly tie them to Nirvana to increase user stickiness; The first is to cooperate with the technical staff of the World Wide Web on the development of HTML5.

Regarding the third point, Adam did not elaborate on it at the meeting, but only mentioned it briefly, but only Carol knew that the importance of this third point was not inferior to the first two points, and even based on his understanding of Adam, he put it in the first place. The three positions can only show his importance.

After the staff meeting, Adam mainly did two things. One thing is to buy a BBS, change its name to the Unicorn Forum, and implant this forum into the webpage guide in Eden 2.0, and put it together with other famous commonly used websites. Together, and made a highlight, you can imagine how many users the Unicorn Forum will welcome after Eden 2.0 is launched.

The other one is to acquire a chat room company and change its name to Phoenix Chat Room. In fact, Adam wanted to buy AOL Chat Room, the largest chat room in the United States. With a net worth of hundreds of millions, the high price of tens of millions scared Adam away, so he could only buy a small chat room with only tens of thousands of people, but the users of the chat room were not what Adam valued the most. During that period of time, traffic can be introduced through the Eden browser anyway.

At present, although Eden is developing very rapidly, it has not yet released the Eden 2.0 browser, but it has expanded its business scope. The pressure on the entire Nirvana company is not small. Fortunately, Adam has worked hard enough to make money, and it is still possible to fill the small gap, but After Eden 2.0 is put on the shelves, it will soon be able to enter the profit stage, and Adam has also made a lot of ideas for the future development, and now it is only waiting for the smooth development.

The newly renamed Unicorn Forum did not affect users because of its acquisition and name change. After all, their network address has not changed, which is of little concern to users.

In the Unicorn BBS, it is divided into several parts, including an entertainment discussion module, a sports module, and a news module, these three are considered the most popular.

Recently, due to the North American release of "Wizard War Revelations", there have been a lot of posts about the novel "Witcher War Revelation" in the entertainment discussion. A large number of readers discussed it in full swing, which directly led to the original hottest The sports sector is overtaken.

In mid-September 1993, in a hot post about wizard-related content, a wizard fanatic suddenly appeared, saying that he heard a place called Yorktown, and there were legends about wizards, and asked about it on the forum. No one interested in exploring.

Although the reality of the witch must have nothing to do with the novel, after all, it is the legendary existence of the witch, which caused many people to discuss it for a while. Many people said that if it was true, then he wanted to join the team and take a look.

Therefore, this statement is recognized by a large number of users, but considering that it is impossible to go all the way, whether it is the need for work and life in reality, or the limited number of people.

After some discussion, it was decided to select a few people to accompany the wizard fanatic to see it, and to make a documentary of the trip and bring it back.

First of all, the old, weak, sick and disabled are excluded, and secondly, a camera is needed, and it is best to have someone who can use the shooting equipment, and then someone to help carry the equipment, and a beautiful girl as a reporter (mainly because everyone wants to see beautiful women).

So after some debate, it was finally determined that there were six people in total, including the wizard lovers originally proposed, four men and two women. Originally there was only one woman, but considering safety issues, the selected beauty said that unless she could bring Her girlfriends went together, otherwise they would not go, so it ended up being six people traveling together.

Because of the time of this discussion, which lasted from mid-September to mid-October, the Unicorn Forum was also posted on the Yellow Pages of Eden 2.0, introducing a large number of new users, out of curiosity and the popularity of "Wizard of War" Waiting for elements, this post quickly became popular. After the final departure was determined, more than 10 people viewed this post.

On October 20th, everyone gathered in Los Angeles, took a photo of the departure, and posted a post on the forum, indicating the official departure. Countless users, out of the idea of ​​joining in the fun, gave their blessings and said they would wait for them to come back Sometimes, they will buy the quest videotapes they shot.

Because this post was so hot, the forum even pinned it to the top, so this mystery-seeking incident became a long-term hot post, and many people even followed up on the post every day to express their expectation and blessings.

However, three days have passed, and there is no news from those who set off. A few people seem to be jokingly discussing that there will be no accidents, but most people still feel that it is still early, maybe it is just because of the signal, and there is no way to access the Internet. Report the situation.

However, a week passed and there was still no news, so this time someone finally became nervous and asked if they knew anyone traveling and how they were doing now.

On the eighth day, a friend who claimed to be Joe from the traveling group of six said that he had lost news of his friend and could not contact him now. He asked if there was any news from other people and considered calling the police.

This news instantly made countless onlookers tense up, seriously considering the possibility of the murder of the Quest Six, but the news has not been confirmed yet, and no one dares to make negative guesses.

However, bad news came one after another. In the following week, relatives of relevant people appeared one by one, saying that they could not contact their friends/lover/children/relatives, hoping that someone could give clues.

Finally, the incident alarmed the police. Joe’s friend told the people in the forum that Mike’s father called the police and formally filed a case. Now, the search operation has begun based on the information given by the forum and the missing person before departure.

So, while discussing and praying, people in the forum followed up the news all the time, hoping to find all the people, and some even said that they hoped it was just a joke, but apparently more and more news proved it was not.

Even the "California Times", the largest newspaper in the United States, published this event in the newspaper, which aroused more people's curiosity about it.

Although the link to the Unicorn Forum is placed in the most prominent position on the Internet Yellow Pages, within half a month of the launch of Eden 2.0, the number of permanent users has only increased to a little over [-]. Pay attention again.

However, after the occurrence of the "Disappearance of Personnel Caused by Questing Wizards", the number of resident users entering Unicorn has risen sharply. By mid-November, it has exceeded 30, of which 500 million have viewed the posts of the incident, and the number of independent visitors has also increased. More than 80, its popularity is frighteningly high.

But this was only the beginning. When someone posted that the police had closed the team and gave up the search operation because they could not find any information about the person, it reached a peak. Some of them said that if it was true, they wanted to launch a protest. , and the other part expressed that they wanted to form a search team to find the missing secret explorers by themselves.

There was a lot of discussion for a while, and waves were set off again. This time, there were still many media who did not know the truth, and because of the popularity of the incident, they got involved and reported and paid attention to it.

However, those few people who set off to explore the secrets seemed to have evaporated from the world, without any news.

There are only countless related posts and news, which spread and spread more and more through the media and netizens through word of mouth, causing heated discussions among the people.

However, at this time, the person who originally said to organize the search team said that they had found clues to the missing person!

The author has something to say: no excuses, just an apology, sorry for writing this now.

The next chapter will be released on Thursday, and it will definitely come out before nine o'clock in the evening. This time I made a promise, and it will definitely come true.