Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

{Time: July 16, 2002}

Before the Emperor Penguin office was decorated, Ning Zimo even developed a habit from the day he returned to the Special Administrative Region.

At two nodes every day, he will definitely go to the question board and take a look.

One is before leaving the office every night,

One is when I first entered the office in the early morning.

Ning Zimo doesn't like meetings for various reasons, so in addition to setting time points in the early stages of establishing a project, he will also check with the general manager of each company to learn about the progress.

Another very good way to understand the company's operations is to understand the more difficult-to-find problems in the entire company's operations through the information recorded on the problem board.

So when Ning Zimo arrived at the Emperor Penguin office this morning, he immediately went to take a look after putting down his things.

As soon as he walked to the question board, Ning Zimo saw Zhuang Zhenpeng writing something on the question board.

Inexplicably, Ning Zimo's heart beat faster. After taking a closer look, Zhuang Zhanpeng, as expected, put a check mark after the four words "compression algorithm".

That hook was a bit dazzling in Ning Zimo's eyes!

Does that mean that the killer weapon that he has been hiding for a year is finally coming to light?

When Zhuang Zhanpeng turned around, Ning Zimo took a step forward and asked excitedly, "Is it done?"

Zhuang Zhanpeng looked at Ning Zimo's shining light with a smile. He felt that only at this time would Ning Zimo have some real ups and downs in his mood.

Zhuang Zhanpeng nodded and said with a smile, "It's done, the new algorithm is optimized. We followed your idea and did not deliberately pursue efficiency. We just took a suitable and reliable intermediate value. After many tests, the current method

It is already the most appropriate compression ratio and can now be used in our instant messaging software."

"Holy crap! This is the greatest good thing. This big move that your instant messaging team has been waiting for almost a year is finally coming to fruition!"

"It's not because you have high demands and pressure us to make it perfect before launching it." Zhuang Zhanpeng breathed a long sigh of relief and continued, "Actually, you ran the test twice before you came back, and you think there is no problem. But

The test results this time are indeed much better than those before you came back.

And my team is finally going to launch it."

As Zhuang Zhanpeng spoke, he looked at Ning Zimo rubbing his hands excitedly. This was a rare scene. If it weren't for business, he would have wanted to shout to make the people who were laughing on the bus take another look at this strange thing.

moment.

Ning Zimo is indeed very excited, because Luban Technology has been busy until now and is finally able to come up with a killer weapon that shocks the world!

"Call Mr. Han and Mr. Li, let's have a good chat together." Ning Zimo turned around excitedly, only to find that Tang Ruiwen and Zhang Miaoying were standing behind her.

Tang Ruiwen said to Ning Zimo, "Dean, Miss Zhang officially joined the job today, and I have just received all her information. At present, her work tasks and reporting targets have not been confirmed, so I brought her to confirm with you."

"She reports directly to me, and I will take her to arrange the work together." Ning Zimo nodded, and then said to Zhang Miaoying, "This morning's small meeting is closely related to your work, so you can participate together.

"

Zhang Miaoying's big eyes blinked twice quickly and nodded quickly, "Okay."

…

"Baker Street" is a conference room specially planned by Ning Zimo, because the height of 1.6 meters from the ground is covered with frosted glass stickers to serve as a blackboard. There are seats for 6 people and a small

The round table is prepared for small meetings.

With hundreds of millions of negative teaching materials clearly visible in his mind, Ning Zimo did not want his team to become a "big company" with constant conferences and frequent small meetings.

Looking at Li Ying, Han Qinghua, Zhuang Zhanpeng and Zhang Miaoying lined up, Ning Zimo simply opened his laptop and pointed the screen in their direction.

Zhang Miaoying took a curious look and saw a QQ-like form displayed on it.

Could it be that my new boss wants to create a chat software similar to QQ?

Zhang Miaoying and Li Ying looked at Ning Zimo with doubtful eyes. He thought for a while and said to Li Ying, "Weren't you curious about what company it was yesterday?"

"Well," Li Ying nodded, "I just saw it yesterday, and you never mentioned it before."

"This project is very important. I will explain it to you from the beginning."

After a pause, Ning Zimo asked, "Except for Mr. Han and Lao Zhuang, who of you has heard of p2p technology?"

After Ning Zimo finished speaking, his eyes rolled on the faces of Li Ying and Zhang Miaoying.

Zhang Miaoying shook her head, but Li Ying nodded in response, "When I was in the United States, I remember that the eMule software we often used was a file sharing software based on p2p technology. The more people download the same file, the faster it will be.

technology."

In 2002, broadband networks in various countries had not yet truly taken shape, and they did not have the ease of downloading dozens of megabytes of software in one go as in previous generations.

eDonkey, a file sharing software, was very popular in Omi at this stage, and Li Ying saved herself a lot of trouble by using it.

"That's right," Ning Zimo snapped his fingers and pointed at the screen and said, "The software you are seeing now is an instant messaging software based on p2p technology."

"Instant messaging? Is it the same as Tengxun QQ?" Li Ying looked at the screen carefully and found that the software interface was in English, so she asked curiously, "So, this is a software company that makes the European version of QQ?"

"

"No, what we want to do is a real instant messaging software based on p2p technology, which is fundamentally different from QQ." Ning Zimo shook his head.

"Real instant messaging?" Li Ying was very curious.

Li Ying boasted that she knew something about Ning Zimo, so she was naturally curious about why he emphasized the pronunciation of p2p and real instant messaging.

Ning Zimo noticed his partner's doubts. After thinking about it, he asked Li Ying, "When it comes to communication, what do you think of?"

"Telephone, walkie-talkie." Li Ying answered quickly.

"Yes, telephones and walkie-talkies both focus on voice communication. Unlike QQ, which can only communicate through text, the instant messaging software we want to define mainly focuses on the call function. With the help of the data transmission function of the network, the words spoken by both parties are compressed

transmitted to another party.

The important thing is that it is through the network, and p2p technology means that all nodes in the network dynamically participate in routing, information processing and bandwidth enhancement, rather than relying solely on the server to complete these tasks..."

Although Li Ying and Zhang Miaoying did not understand technology, some words were said to Han Qinghua and Zhuang Zhanpeng. Therefore, Ning Zimo did not miss a word related to technical points.

"But, it's still just a phone call, can it replace the phone..." Li Ying paused.

Just now she paid attention to Dao Ning Zimo's deliberate words, but when she was about to continue speaking, something suddenly occurred to her.

She has lived in the United States for several years, and she knows exactly what the phone rates in the United States are.

Li Ying still remembers that in order to save money, she would only call home once every few months.

After thinking about it again, Li Ying suddenly understood Ning Zimo's original intention, "You are thinking that if you make a call through the Internet, the cost of international calls is only the data flow instead of the minutes of the call. Like European countries, their land area is relatively large.

Small mobility is relatively large. There are many cross-border calls in the business field, and the cost of business communication is huge."

After Li Ying finished organizing her words, she was even frightened. She now understood more and more what Ning Zimo was planning to do.

"So you want to explore the Internet phone market?"

Seeing that Li Ying, who was not technical, understood so quickly, Ning Zimo knew that she must have recalled the annoying phone bill when she made overseas calls in the United States.

Ning Zimo nodded, "Yes, because after the European telecommunications reform in 2000, local calls in the Eurozone were 0.4 euros/3 minutes, calls to the other 25 countries in Europe were 1.31 euros/3 minutes, and calls outside Europe were 1.31 euros/3 minutes.

The national call fee is 2.88 euros/3 minutes..."

"Ning...Mr., how come you know so much about the airtime charges in Europe?" Zhang Miaoying stared, looking dumbfounded.

She had heard that Ning Zimo worked in the United States, but she never expected that Ning Zimo knew so much about European call charges.

When Li Ying mentioned the phone bill just now, she felt the same way. A few years ago, when she was studying abroad in Germany and her family was cut off from supplies, she suffered a lot from the phone bill. After careful calculation, she naturally understood it clearly and also

I know that the data reported by Ning Zimo is very accurate.

Ning Zimo shrugged and winked in Li Ying's direction, "A consulting company."

After saying that, Ning Zimo did not explain much and continued, "Local communication costs are not included. We only count the domestic and international costs in the European region. If a company requires 200 minutes of domestic communication every week, one

For 800 minutes per month, the total communication cost comes to 350 euros.

But what about network charges? You know, Omi has developed rapidly in recent years, and for many companies, the network is almost a must. Therefore, if an enterprise uses our instant messaging software, his communication charges will be greatly reduced!"

After a pause, Ning Zimo raised his eyebrows at Zhang Miaoying, "In 1998, when the European Union regulated European telecommunications through the Commission, it announced the clause that Internet voice services did not constitute voice calls. In the 1990s, the EU had designed a new

The regulatory framework nrf stipulates that networks and suppliers no longer need licenses. In other words..."

"That is to say, it operates an Internet phone service, which is legal in Europe!"

Before Ning Zimo finished speaking, Zhang Miaoying stood up excitedly to catch the next sentence,

"Yes, we are going to open and operate this instant messaging software in Germany. In the EU system, our instant messaging is just a software born under the Internet industry."

Ning Zimo spread his hands, tilted his head and curled his lips and said, "Today, Lao Zhuang will be officially upgraded to President Zhuang, and Zhang Miaoying, you need to prepare quickly to go to Luxembourg with him to set up this company."

"I even named the software skrpe, and the domain name was already registered last year." As he spoke, Ning Zimo shrugged, "It's boring to call Bantenxun QQ a cause of trouble in China. Our skrpe is such a big killer.

The utensils must be open to the world!”