The past 24 hours have been the most painful 24 hours for the U.S. Internet industry.
Time has been stretched infinitely in the past 24 hours. Everyone is waiting for the new version of YY from Makino Technology. It is almost impossible to wait.
However, in the entire American Internet industry, few people hope that YY will shock the world again.
Everyone is holding back their energy, hoping to see YY make a joke or make a major mistake.
In the U.S. Internet market, no Chinese company has ever attracted such great attention. While American practitioners are paying attention to Makino Technology, they also have a tacit mentality: "The U.S. market does not allow such awesome Chinese software to exist. .”
However, the Internet market is not a mafia after all.
This is almost the most equal and free world created by mankind. In the Internet industry, almost all companies must rely on real materials to fight. This means that if YY is destined to be awesome, Then it is destined that no one can stop it from being awesome.
Finally, one early morning in mid-November 2002, at midnight Beijing time, it was exactly nine o'clock in the morning in San Francisco.
At the moment when the entire Silicon Valley was just starting to work, the last major update of YY2002 - YY2002-v3.0 was officially released!
Makino Technology expanded its server and bandwidth capacity in the United States regardless of cost, and finally gave Li Mu the most satisfactory answer.
In addition to China, nearly 10 million people around the world immediately updated YY2002-v3.0 at this moment. The server was carrying everything normally, and such a huge data request did not overload the server.
No matter how large the traffic flow is, it can be achieved by widening the road surface. If the two-way eight lanes are a bit congested, how about trying the two-way eighty lanes
Western Internet colleagues felt disappointed as soon as v3.0 was updated. What the hell, there were no such popular phenomena as upgrade lags, inability to request data, and even server crashes, and even a little lag. Never before, everything is as smooth as silk...
Colleagues realized almost immediately that Makino Technology's reserves in the fields of servers and bandwidth far exceeded its current maximum needs.
Some people even think that Makino Technology’s servers and bandwidth in the United States should have been built in advance according to the specifications to carry Internet users across the United States.
This guess is not wrong at all.
Before a flood occurs, if the river widening and desilting work are done properly, then the flood will no longer be a flood.
Before the huge traffic influx, we should first pave the way for this traffic. Once the traffic peak comes, YY can sit back and relax.
This is the pattern of YY.
Colleagues who were a little disappointed in the first scene immediately eagerly opened YY after downloading the latest version, hoping to see what big move YY was planning this time.
And from this moment on, the series of shocks had just begun.
The first startup interface of the YY2002-v3.0 version is unified globally. After the user downloads the update and opens the new version of YY for the first time, YY will display a 15cm by 15cm startup interface in the center of the screen. The interface is a flash animation. At the beginning First, the words "Hello! Hello!" gradually faded in, and then the entire background emerged bit by bit, an ink landscape painting full of Chinese style.
In the ink paintings, there are distant mountains, rivers, solitary sails, and human figures outlined in ink. Only Chinese people, or people with a profound understanding of Chinese culture, can see that this human figure is wearing a bamboo hat and a Coir raincoat, sitting in the woods at the foot of the mountain, sharpening a machete.
After the landscape painting completely faded out, a series of elegant calligraphy in regular script gradually appeared in the center of the startup screen.
There are seven characters in this line, which reads: Sharpen your knife and you will be a good chopping wood.
This is what Li Mu wants to show the world in the v3.0 version.
Don’t you all think that I should be busy directing the users of “Paradise Town” to YY
Don’t you all understand why I continue to carry out major updates willfully at this stage of the general trend
I will use this ancient Chinese saying to tell you what is my realm!
That’s right, it’s the realm!
Sharpen your knife and never miss the woodcutter!
This means, what are you anxious about? The ax in my hand may seem like a magic weapon to you, but in my opinion, it’s not sharp enough!
All Chinese and Chinese-Americans working in the American Internet industry did not expect that Li Mu would use such a strong Chinese style as the startup interface in such a major new version update. You know, almost all the people around the world are paying attention to this version update now. An elite group within the scope!
In the face of the entire Western elite group, Li Mu's willfulness, indifference, and confidence in Chinese culture made these Chinese and Chinese people feel extremely proud.
Every Westerner is confused about this painting and this line of Chinese calligraphy. They can only understand one word in the whole text: "hello"
So, with their faces confused, they all asked the Chinese and Chinese people around them for advice: "Boss, you are Chinese and Chinese. You must be able to understand this background picture and the Chinese characters that appear in the middle of this line, right? Come on, right?" Tell us what the hell Li Mu is doing!"
As a result, you can see a scene in almost every Western Internet company. A Chinese with an Asian face is surrounded by a group of foreigners whose faces are full of confusion and curiosity. Listen to how he explains this. Freehand black and white landscape paintings, and the strange, flying Chinese characters.
Sharpening the knife will not make you a chopping wood.
These seven words are full of the essence of Chinese civilization. These Chinese and Chinese people can only translate them in the most straightforward way and tell them: "This sentence means that if the knife is not sharp enough, then before chopping wood Taking the time to sharpen the knife first may seem like a waste of time, but it will definitely not affect your progress in chopping wood, and may even speed it up significantly.”
Westerners who don’t understand Chinese civilization go crazy. Their first reaction is: WTF!
The seven hieroglyphics actually contain so much and a long list of contents? Are you all so efficient in Chinese? Or are you fucking fooling me into not understanding Chinese
But then, they really reacted.
Fuck! I know what Li Mu means. What he wants to say is that I don’t even bother “going up the mountain to cut firewood” right now. Wait until I sharpen my knife faster!
Almost every Westerner who came to their senses covered their heads and exclaimed: Holy-Shit!
Why is this guy Li Mu so confident! Does this guy think there is no one in our American Internet industry? Does he think that we American users are all firewood you can chop down? He has such contempt for American users, he must apologize to American users!
However, when most people are in front of the computer and filled with righteous indignation, there are still a few sober people reminding them: "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and see what updates this software has! He just watched this It’s just a startup interface!”
The person who was reminded suddenly realized, hurriedly came to his senses, and hurriedly studied the 3.0 version of YY to see what the differences were.
In the reminder function of the software itself, the first thing shown to users is the option to start "Paradise Town" with one click on YY.
Its startup logic is:
1. If the "Paradise Town" client is not installed on this machine, click the one-click startup option to enter the official download page of the "Paradise Town" client;
2. If the "Paradise Town" client is installed on this machine, the login interface of "Paradise Town" will pop up with just one click;
2.1. If the YY account you log in is registered or bound to an account in "Paradise Town", the system will automatically complete the login after launching the login interface, without entering the account password;
2.2. If the YY account you log in has not been registered or bound to an account in "Paradise Town", the system will provide a startup interface for manually entering the account password, and also provide a quick option to bind the YY account;
As the first change announced to users in the first step of version 3.0, this change has puzzled many people in the industry.
What are you doing? Li Mu, is your logic wrong
Now "Paradise Town" is a big hit, and YY is still only popular among the elite. What you should do is to open a channel to YY in "Paradise Town" to divert traffic! Why didn't you open a channel for "Paradise Town", but instead opened an entrance to "Paradise Town" on YY
Just like when the Spring Festival travel period arrives, the transportation department should find ways to open more exits from big cities, so that the expanding and crowded population of big cities can quickly spread in all directions. However, the transportation department does the opposite. During the Spring Festival transportation period, they should first find ways to ensure the surrounding areas Isn’t this logic completely contrary to the efficiency and speed of population influx into big cities
Isn't Li Mu's brains showing off when he does this
Besides, with this broken function, what the hell kind of major update is this? You, grandma, came all the way from China to the United States to trick stupid dogs
Some disappointed American industry insiders and elites quickly went to the second change prompt after quickly skimming over the first change prompt.
This change reminder is one of the highlights of this new version of Makino Technology: the discussion group!
The convenience of YY group and its unique role in group socialization not only quickly conquered Chinese users, but also conquered the American elite at the speed of light. Starting from YY group, the era of online group socialization was officially launched, which is also the favorite of overseas elite groups. One of the functions that can greatly improve work efficiency.
However, no user realizes that the current YY group chat has a relatively high user behavior cost.
To organize a group chat, users must first create a group. After filling in the group information, the group is successfully created step by step, and then the users are invited in one by one.
The YY group of one thousand people is this model, and the YY group of three people is also this model. Although this method of communication is still highly respected, Li Mu knows in his heart that the needs of users are endless.
A new feature that users find amazing today will be okay tomorrow, and will become cumbersome and boring before long.
If you wait until users feel troublesome and boring before making improvements, it will basically be too late. Therefore, Li Mu made the group chat "lightweight" and the "discussion group" function came into being.
"Discussion Group" is a new product that allows users to quickly create group chats in one second. Its subversiveness to users is no less impressive than that of "YY Group" when it was first launched!
The lightweight "YY Group" allows YY to achieve extremes in group chats that users themselves cannot even imagine!
Just like if the powerful "Maxin Heavy Machine Gun" is provided to users in the cold weapon era, users who have never seen hot weapons will naturally praise its powerful firepower, but its load-bearing, its movement, operation, ammunition supply and water cooling will all It is a potential problem for users when using Maxim.
When there was only a hot weapon like the "Maxin" on the market, naturally no one would dislike it. Everyone was feeling what it means to be "painful and happy". However, when someone finally made lightweight pistols and submachine guns, When it came out and was provided to them, this huge sense of surprise burst out almost instantly!
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