Chapter 365: The Internet Wave

Regardless of whether the fate of the entire family reversed in the summer of 1994, my uncle had to go back to Haizhou to take a look after a few years. As for the two cousins, they grew up in Xi'an since childhood and had a dispensable relationship with Haizhou. Zhang Ke had gone to Xi'an on a business trip to meet his eldest cousin Liang Wenshan's family several times, but Liang Wenshan never returned to Haizhou after becoming an adult; his younger cousin Liang Wenjiang went directly to the United States after graduating from Tsinghua University, but I'm afraid that their brothers had never met each other several times.

The high mobility of modern society greatly weakens the traditional family concept, let alone family concepts. However, the many capital and political forces in modern society show more family characteristics and have their own profound existence foundation.

In Zhang Ke's generation, there were only seven people including Liang Wenshan, Liang Wenjiang, Liang Jun, Liang Junru, and Zhang Yi and Zhang Mei of his father Zhang Zhixing. Of course, Zhang Ke also hoped that the members of the family could achieve higher achievements, in order to have a wider influence and penetration in the entire family, not just wealth and power reflected on the books.

Among his peers, Liang Jun was the first to give high hopes. In order to facilitate the production of the master plate, Sheng Qing, Shao Zhigang and Zhang Zhifei registered a series of companies and studios in Shenzhen and Hong Kong to operate this matter. Liang Jun followed Sheng Qing to Shenzhen and Hong Kong to be responsible for this matter, so that Sheng Qingyi was the right-hand man.

As for Zhang Yi, Zhang Ke had hoped that he would not cause trouble before. This was the first time Liang Wenshan and Liang Wenjiang had returned to Haizhou. Zhang Ke was not sure about their degree of recognition of the family. It would be better if he didn't talk about this. As long as Liang Wenshan and Liang Wenjiang had enough ability, even because of his mother, Zhang Ke would try his best to help them live a decent and dignified life.

Liang Wenjiang came to Haizhou this time, of course, not to attend the engagement banquet of his cousin Liang Jun, who had rarely seen each other for several years. He didn't know that Ding Chunjian's boss would be his little cousin who could not even remember his appearance before coming. Before the construction of the public network (CHINANET) in major provinces and cities across the country last year, he and several classmates in Tsinghua had already established a sports competition website on the campus. This was probably one of the earliest prototypes of a domestic website. It was just because of interest, and it was not.

Considering the commercial value, it is only because of the expansion of the website, the use of the space provided by the original campus network for free will have serious lag. The cost of renting a commercial server in 1996 was not something that a few students could afford. It turned out that everyone planned to give up expanding the website. Later, they contacted Ding Chunjian and thought that Aida Electronics could buy Ding Chunjian's IDE to USB technology at a high price, and maybe they would be interested in the new thing of the Internet - Liang Wenjiang took advantage of the opportunity to go to Haizhou to try his luck.

In Ding Chunjian's opinion, Liang Wenjiang did encounter good luck.

After lunch, Zhang Ke did not go back to school with Tang Jing to continue to review his homework, but instead accompanied his uncle's family to visit the R&D center of Aida Electronics. Zhang Yi and his colleagues also left.

The three ** buildings are connected by steel beams and tempered glass, which has the momentum of modern architecture. In a few days, this place will no longer be the technology research and development center of Ida Electronics, but rather the technology company.

During lunch, Liang Guosheng and Liang Wenshan and his son heard Zhang Ke say that he was an investor in this company. They didn’t pay special attention to it at first. After seeing the R&D center, they were shocked. Their majors were all automatic control and had a certain correlation with computer technology. Not to mention what the research center is developing, the experimental environment and facilities of the research center are rare in China, which is often the most enviable for those who do technology and research.

"How big is this company? It has such a beautiful laboratory?" Liang Guosheng thought of asking about these details at this time.

"It's not too big. After all, it was a company that was established last year, so it invested more in the research and development direction..." Zhang Ke did not introduce the data on sales revenue and profits. He said too much, and others thought he was showing off, and there was no need to introduce it in detail. After all, for more people, the number is too large to a certain extent, it will really become a number. It is reported to have 400 million or 50 million in the mouth, but it has not directly piled up four or five million cash in front of people. My uncle and others entered the company, and they didn't even see the company's sign at the gate clearly.

In the afternoon, we will naturally talk about the topic of the Internet and websites. Liang Wenjiang did not directly mention to Zhang Ke that their website had a desire to raise funds, but Ding Chunjian explained that when the website was established, it was still in the form of a campus network BBS, and Ding Chunjian also participated in the construction.

In the history of domestic computer technology development, the computer department of Tsinghua University occupies a very important position.

In the spacious and bright coffee room of the R&D center, it is located on the aerial steel beam corridor. Through the floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall, you can see the birch forest in the south. The foot is translucent tempered glass. The coffee room is quite spacious. Several sets of sofas of different colors form several relatively high-end areas, providing various beverages and coffee, as well as some snacks, which facilitates R&D personnel to rest and talk here after work.

Liang Guosheng and the others dared not imagine that there was such a relaxed working environment in China. When they came over, many R&D personnel chatted with coffee inside. When they saw Zhang Ke and Ding Huai coming in, they greeted him naturally.

Zhang Ke and his team chose a corner to discuss the Internet issues.

"I used the school's workstation to make a BBS website," Ding Chunjian saw Zhang Ke joining the BBS at Donghai University, and believed that he could understand such professional terms. "I also participated in the website building before. After I left, Liang Wenjiang and others compiled a classified information list and gradually turned the BBS website into a customizable database. This time, if we cannot find a computer with a larger capacity, it will significantly affect the campus network within Tsinghua University, and we will have to close the website at that time."

"Do you have more specific ideas..." Zhang Ke was not very concerned about technical things and said, "As far as I know, when building a website, technology is cheap and creativity is also cheap. The most important thing is confidence and persistence. You have to put a lot of effort outside the Internet. Another thing is that capital is very important..."

In 1995, the Internet was truly sold in China. In 1996, the number-one users were probably quite rare, with about 200,000 users, and the largest user base was still on the campus network of colleges and universities. In 1997, Sina.com was officially established, and in the subsequent 1999, the first Internet wave was ushered in. Finally, under the pursuit of hot money, a huge network bubble formed until it burst.

Ding Chunjian and Liang Wenjiang have more optimistic estimates about the future of the Internet. It is not difficult to understand the formation of the Internet bubble, but Zhang Ke does not have much enthusiasm.

Even if portals like Sina do not directly generate profits until 2004, it is undeniable that in the first wave of the Internet, these portals still created huge wealth on paper. However, it takes a long way to grow from a more professional amateur website to a portal website, which requires strong confidence and long-term persistence. At this time, a large amount of development funds and a large amount of market operations outside the Internet are needed; just like before Sina's finalization, its development in several years, it also went through three private equity financings, and it raised nearly 100 million US dollars in the first and last.

The miracle of Silicon Valley is not so much a dream for engineers, but rather a venture capital that is making a big splash there. It is easy to find money to be the advantage of Silicon Valley.

Although the Internet created huge book wealth in the first wave, Zhang Ke was still happy to withdraw investment and make a fortune before the Internet bubble burst. However, he spent several years on spending hundreds of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars to support a portal and list on Nasnak. Due to the restrictions on the stock market, investors did not have enough time to withdraw before the Internet bubble burst.

Zhang Ke was not very interested in investing in the Internet at this time, but he was still willing to provide some funds in the name of private. He did not expect that millions of funds could be built into a portal website, nor did he give up the possibility of becoming a portal website. He then said: "I can take some money, but you must at least make a money order so that I can allocate the money to you."

Although Liang Wenjiang saw the prototype of domestic portals from Yahoo, he has not yet begun to expand their website into a portal. He said: "After all, it is the interest of several classmates. It is better to be sponsored by the company. There is no need to pay privately. We now hope to find a server to store files, and other problems are easy to solve..."

Seeing Liang Wenjiang say this, Zhang Ke knew that his eyes were not so far away, so he would position their website on a very narrow professional application platform. He said: "Since it is doing business, we must point out where the benefits that can make us move..." It seems that we should take them a little step forward, just a very narrow professional application platform website, which has no investment value at the moment. "If it is convenient for you to build a website together, you can invite them to Haizhou to play in the name of the company and discuss together whether there is anything that interests the company in your interests."
Chapter completed!