MTL - Back To 1995-Chapter 80 From Corsica to Paris

   Chapter 80 From Corsica to Paris

  The Internet community and forums in America have not yet become popular, but there are many places where you need to use email.

   On the day Hotmail was launched, company personnel who had business dealings with Double-click Company first came into contact with Hotmail mailboxes, and Double-click Company opened their mailboxes by issuing invitations.

  Eric is a member of a small Silicon Valley company. After opening the Hotmail mailbox, he started to use the Hotmail mailbox. After all, it is really convenient to use.

   After calling several customers, the other party was also invited by Eric to enter the Hotmail mailbox. Before he knew it, Eric sent all the five invitation rights in his hand.

By the time he got off work, Eric and other companies had already started to use Hotmail mailboxes with their customers. Not to mention the function and memory size, just need a URL to log in to the mailbox on any computer. , which is powerful enough for Eric and the others.

   was packing his things and was about to leave the office when Eric suddenly received another call. After hearing the voice on the phone, Eric couldn't help but say, "Hotmail invitation right?"

The call was from a partner who wanted to "borrow" an invitation right from Eric's Hotmail mailbox. After turning on the computer again, Eric, who was about to send an invitation right, suddenly saw five invitations owned by his Hotmail mailbox. The code has already been used up.

No way, Eric could only borrow one from a colleague. What Eric did not expect was that after asking several people in a row, the invitation codes were all used, some for clients and some for friends, and Hotmail was opened. The five invitation codes are not used at all!

Eric never thought that one day he would toss for an invitation code. After tossing for a long time and making a circle of phone calls, Eric finally got a Hotmail mailbox invitation from a person who had just opened Hotmail. code.

Looking at the Hotmail mailbox on the computer screen, Eric suddenly realized that since he started using this Hotmail mailbox, in less than an afternoon, he had pushed the mailbox to no less than seven or eight customers. friend.

  The right to invite is used more cleanly, and it is enough to start "borrowing". Eric suddenly felt that the implementation of this method of Hotmail mailbox seems to be a bit special!

  Stanford University, which has the closest relationship with Silicon Valley, also had this scene. Starting in the afternoon, the words "Hotmail" and "Invitation Rights" suddenly appeared more and more frequently in Stanford University.

   has even begun to pull people's heads. Hotmail doesn't need to be bothered to promote it. When the first Stanford University people started to use Hotmail mailboxes, "Hotmail invitation rights" suddenly began to become popular.

  Stanford University is not the last one. When a university starts, it means that Hotmail mailboxes have begun to appear in the entire American university circle.

   Curiosity kills the cat, and the same is true for people. The half-covered way makes people who have access to Hotmail mailboxes but cannot use it extremely itchy.

  In the Houston Harbor Building, Song Yang has stayed in the Hotmail mailbox's office since the Hotmail mailbox went online.

   "Currently, there are 3100 registered users of Hotmail, and the website traffic is still increasing!"

As the afternoon approached, Wesley reported to Song Yanghui, feeling a little disappointed in his words. This was completely different from what he expected. Today, Hotmail has also invested a lot of relationships and funds to promote it. As a result, so far, there are only So point registered users.

On the day of the launch, there were more than 3,000 registered users, which is not too low in this era, but Wesley knows that Double-click, Wang An, Yahoo and other companies have invested a lot of resources today. How qualified.

   "It's just the beginning. Your technical department needs to determine the server and solve the problem with the mailbox!"

   No matter what he feels, Song Yang must not show any dissatisfaction or worry on his face, otherwise the Hotmail mailbox project department will basically collapse.

   In fact, Song Yang was also a little nervous. The promotion method he developed for the Hotmail mailbox, the email with a link and the invitation right to register, in this modern age, it is really advanced, and Song Yang is not sure whether it can be accepted or not.

   "Double-click the message from the partner company and ask Hotmail to provide a batch of invitation codes!" Irene, who came up from the downstairs, said to Song Yang.

   Hearing this, Wesley's eyes rose a few times, asking for the right to invite Hotmail mailboxes, it means that someone is using Hotmail mailboxes, this is undoubtedly a good news for Wesley to hear today!

Song Yang thought about it for a while, and said to Wesley, "Provide a batch of invitation rights to the partners of Double Click Company. In addition, on the official website of the Hotmail mailbox, a batch of invitation rights will be issued every day, but not too many. Invitation rights must be shared with users through the official website!"

  In the evening, Song Yang was in the office building, ate a quick snack at random, and then waited for news from Wesley to see how many registered users there would be on Hotmail today.

   But when it was almost midnight, Song Yang didn't wait for Wesley to come. Just when Song Yang was about to visit in person, he saw Wesley rushing in in a hurry.

   "Boss, there are more than 8,000 registered people!" Wesley said to Song Yang with excitement.

  Song Yang was also stunned. In the afternoon, only 3,000 people had to sign up. After a few hours, it more than doubled? !

   Since the afternoon, the growth rate of Hotmail mailbox users has been increasing, and the growth rate has continued to increase, which is why it took Wesley a long time to come.

   "The number of visits to Hotmail's official website is increasing, the frequency of registered users using Hotmail mailboxes is increasing, and there are also European users!" Wesley said to Song Yang.

  Song Yang nodded and poured a glass of water for Wesley, "I said, don't worry, Hotmail is the best email in this era!"

When Wesley left, Song Yang breathed a sigh of relief involuntarily. The success or failure of the Hotmail mailbox project would not hurt Song Yang, but if it didn't work, the follow-up plans would be disrupted. .

   "The new Internet e-mail brand Hotmail, on the first day of its launch, the number of user registrations exceeded 8,000. This is a new e-mail product with a lot of creativity!"

The next day, the media in the technology industry reported on the performance of Hotmail mailboxes on the first day of launch, but they did not pay much attention to the reports of Hotmail mailboxes, and there was still no Hotmail mailbox that was widely promoted in the media, and it was still on the Internet. spread among users.

On the second day after the launch of   , the Hotmail mailbox appeared on the "Oakland Tribune", one of the four major newspapers in San Francisco.

   "Hotmail mailbox is a brand-new modern e-mail box, which is very popular among young Internet users!" This is a report by the Oakland Tribune. On this day, Hotmail mailboxes exceeded 17,000 registered users in a single day.

   And if someone collects it, the American technology media in the past few days will find a very interesting phenomenon in the report on the Hotmail mailbox.

  Like the Paris media, when they reported that Na Huang returned from Corsica to Paris back then, they would find the same effect.

On the first day, the media in Paris wrote that Napoleon was still a "monster from Corsica", the second day was the cannibal, the third day was the kleptocrat, the fourth day began to call Napoleon's name, and the fifth day changed He became General Napoleon, and Napoleon, who returned to Paris on the sixth day, became His Majesty Emperor Napoleon in the description of the newspaper.

   And now the same is true for the American media, and the Oakland Tribune's coverage of Hotmail mailboxes is constantly changing.

   From the first day of reporting, it was just a new e-mail address. At that time, there were less than 10,000 registered users of Hotmail mailboxes.

   "Hotmail is changing the office industry in America, it's taking the office industry in America by storm!"

   This is the third day of the report on Hotmail mailboxes. On this day, Hotmail mailboxes attracted 20,000 users in a single day in America, which is almost equivalent to the total number of registered users in two days.

"There is reason to believe that Bruno Song is the genius of the Internet in this era. Hotmail mailboxes are becoming a phenomenal product. From Stanford to Harvard, from Massachusetts to Princeton, the sound of hotmail mailboxes is ringing." On this day, Hotmail mailboxes registered The number of users exceeded 100,000 in less than a week.

   "Hotmail will enter the Canadian market today, it has gained 70,000 users in Europe, and now it is starting to conquer global Internet users!"

The Oakland Tribune's touting of Hotmail mailboxes is no longer disguised, because Hotmail mailboxes are located in America, and it took less than a week for users to go from zero to 100,000, and less than three years to go from 100,000 to 200,000. sky!

   is also in a strong situation in Europe. The old European aristocrats who have always looked down on the American brand cannot resist the storm blown by the Hotmail mailbox.

   It wasn’t just the Oakland Tribune that touted Hotmail, but the entire American media suddenly began touting Hotmail overnight, and Silicon Valley suddenly went crazy because of Hotmail.

   (end of this chapter)