Chapter 373 Is Ma Xiaoteng going to be acquired by Ma Xiaoyun?

"Red Pony Technology~Ma Xiaoyun!"

"Tengxun Technology~Ma Xiaoteng!"

"Hello~Hello~!"

"Nice to meet you~!"

On this night of 1999, the two horses that Chen Li was always compared with in his previous life finally met each other.

The place where the two met was not at a business gathering, but in Chen Li's small, inconspicuous rental house.

There were a total of five people attending the banquet that night. In addition to the two tigers of Chen Li and Teng Xun, there were also two Arhats from the original Ali and an Internet "gangster".

Uh~ okay~ back in 1999, these people didn't actually have these nicknames.

Not to mention that this time and space has been "messed up" by Chen Li. The original Ali Eighteen Arhats are probably gone. As for whether the Five Tigers of Fujixun will appear again, it's hard to say.

Anyway, at the wine table that night, Ma Xiaoteng and Zeng Lijing kept promoting their OICQ to Ma Xiaoyun.

What worries Chen Li is that Ma Xiaoyun seems to be really interested.

Speaking of which, life during OICQ in 1999 was actually not easy.

Contrary to Chen Li's original imagination, the early OICQ was actually not that popular.

Compared with social software like OICQ, many people actually prefer to use BBS forums and online chat rooms to socialize online.

Fortunately, Ma Xiaoteng and the others arrived at a very appropriate time, which was later commonly known as the outlet of the storm!

In 1999, a major reform occurred in the domestic Internet industry.

With the promotion and application of broadband ADSL, the cost of Internet access has been greatly reduced. This allows many ordinary people who originally thought that Internet access was a relatively luxurious thing to go into Internet cafes and start their own Internet surfing life.

If there is an opportunity, businesses will naturally follow up. Many smart businessmen discovered the business opportunities, so Internet cafes began to spring up like bamboo shoots after a rain all over the country.

At this time, Tengxun, where Ma Xiaoteng worked, launched their OICQ.

Then Ma Xiaoteng and others set their sights on the new generation of young people, so in the beginning, in addition to Internet cafes, the focus of their promotion was Shenzhen and surrounding universities.

Young people are naturally very receptive to new things, so Ma Xiaoteng and his OICQ quickly experienced a leap in user base.

After surviving the indifferent period of the early OICQ social circle, Tengxun’s OICQ soon ushered in their explosive period.

But new problems soon emerged.

As the number of registered users and online numbers gradually increased, Tengxun soon felt the pressure.

After all, Tengxun in 1999 was just a small company among Internet companies.

The pressure brought by the sudden increase in the number of users is actually a small problem. After all, the increase in the number of users is definitely a good sign. This means that OICQ is loved by young people.

Although there is some financial pressure, it has not reached the stage where it is unbearable.

What Ma Xiaoteng and other Fujitora cannot accept is that they cannot see the future of OICQ.

Yes~ Even though OICQ was created by Ma Xiaoteng and his colleagues, although it borrowed the concept of a certain foreign social software, this thing was created by Ma Xiaoteng and his colleagues after all. It is impossible to say that there is no thought.

Especially at the beginning of this year, an American company spent US$287 million to buy a foreign company that makes instant messaging software.

Yes~ It’s the company that Ma Xiaoteng and others learned from. This company’s product is called ICQ.

When many people mention Tencent, they will definitely think of their flagship product QQ.

The OICQ of 1999 was actually the later QQ!

The reason for this change is that the American company that acquired ICQ later sued Tencent, and OICQ was eventually renamed QQ.

To put it bluntly, the reason why Ma Xiaoteng and others came up with OICQ was because they were not affected by the US$300 million acquisition of ICQ by an American company. Chen Li would not believe it.

What Ma Xiaoteng and others did not expect was that ICQ could be sold for US$287 million with more than 10 million registered users abroad. However, in China, OICQ, which now has more than 200,000 registered users, had no interest.

There are several main reasons for this situation.

First, although foreign ICQ does not have a Chinese character version, there is a domestic ICQ with a Chinese patch.

In other words, although ICQ has not announced a Chinese version, some people in China are actually using ICQ.

Of course ~ because of its English interface, although not many people in China use ICQ.

The most commonly used Internet social network in China is actually email!

Later, due to the emergence of instant messaging software and the improvement of the function development of instant messaging software, the use of mailboxes became less and less.

But in the early Internet era in China, email was definitely a must-have symbol for every netizen.

At that time, when people communicated on the Internet, the most common thing they did was not to leave the other party's QQ number or mobile phone number, but to leave the other party's own email address.

Of course~ Mailbox is not considered an instant messaging software after all, even though the speed of sending emails is actually quite fast.

The real reason why many domestic businessmen are not optimistic about Tengxun's OICQ is actually related to the dominant leader in the computer industry.

When it comes to the leading overlord in the computer industry, you may have many choices.

Such as Intel!

Like Dell!

Such as AMD!

Everyone's views are different, so everyone's choices will not be the same.

But no matter who makes this choice, they will probably choose a company. And the name of this company is

Microsoft!

Yes~ There is another very important reason why many people in China don’t understand Fatenxun’s OICQ.

That is, Microsoft announced at the beginning of this year that Microsoft will launch an instant messaging software in the middle of this year.

The name of this software is Messenger~also known as the postman or the messenger!

Of course~ the software released by Microsoft is naturally in English, so the name of this software is

Messenger!

If many people are not familiar with this word, then abbreviate it and it becomes

MSN!

In fact, Chen Li didn't quite remember when MSN was launched. He just saw the news that Microsoft would launch MSN this year some time ago.

This surprised Chen Li at the time!

Because in Chen Li's memory, the competition between Tencent and Microsoft definitely happened after the new century.

Later, after Chen Li learned some relevant information, he made some guesses.

Microsoft did indeed develop MSN in 1999, but the time when this thing entered China was delayed somewhat compared to the time when it developed MSN.

Chen Li vaguely remembered that MSN only entered the Chinese market after achieving great success abroad.

Chen Li still remembers one thing. At that time, Microsoft and Tencent were competing for a period of time.

At that time, there was a very nonsense topic on the Internet, that is, people who use MSN look down on people who use QQ.

Users who used MSN at that time had the confidence to keep up with international standards.

Moreover, in business activities at that time, when exchanging contact information, many people were ashamed to provide their QQ and QQ email addresses, and instead were more keen to use gmail or hotmail.

At that time, QQ was even considered a game, while MSN was the real social tool.

Yes~ because the user groups who used MSN in the early days were mainly concentrated among high-level business people, rather than grassroots and students.

At that time, MSN and QQ were competing fiercely. It is said that some foreign companies even banned employees from logging into QQ during working hours.

Of course, these memories are scattered memories that Chen Li can recall.

As for the specific information, Chen Li couldn't remember it at all.

For example, how QQ had the last laugh at that time.

However, even if he couldn't remember it, Chen Li could still make a rough guess.

After all, when he thought of the definition of MSN, he guessed that MSN would eventually fail.

Of course ~ these are all things after the new century.

But now in 1999, when Microsoft announced that they were about to enter the instant messaging market, many people had actually issued a "death notice" to the still weak Tencent.

Many people may find it strange that Microsoft hasn't even launched an instant messaging software yet. Why do you think so?

Hey~ Microsoft really had such a big influence in the past few years at the turn of the century.

Microsoft these days is probably the most famous company in the world, if not one!

Even many people who don’t understand computer and Internet know about Microsoft and Bill Gates, not to mention people in the computer and Internet industry circles.

When many people hear that Microsoft is going to launch an instant messaging software, their first reaction is to have a negative attitude towards other instant messaging software.

There is no way~Microsoft has too many global users.

With such a huge user base, how can other instant messaging software compete with the huge Microsoft?
To be continued...