Overbearing Immortal Doctor Chapter 1736 - 1835: Growth

Xu Chengye, soaked to the skin, dashed out from the server group, while Zhang Zhidong lay spread-eagle on the ground, looked at the now-stable servers, and said with a bitter smile:

"It can only last for five days at most!"

Su He, who knew the historical background, chuckled:

"Three days at most, user growth is exponentially increasing,

today it’s an increase of 1,000, tomorrow it could be 1,500. You can’t estimate based on today’s growth!"

Oh right, damn, three days.

Da Li was holding his cup, while Zhang Zhidong fixed his eyes intently on Su He. Gong Hao quickly stood up:

"Let me introduce, this is my younger brother from Su City, he’s an absolute prodigy,

just started majoring in telecommunications at Qinghua University after finishing his college entrance exams"

Gong Hao’s introduction made everyone raise their heads, and Da Li even shouted: Damn, a high school student?

Damn, does this mean we veterans, who’ve been out of school for years, have no place to survive?

These days, are high school students this amazing?

Zeng Ligao stood up and walked to Su He: "Zeng Liqing!"

Xu Chengye

Old Xu also greeted Su He, not forgetting to add: "Thanks, brother. Tonight

dinner is on me. Your suggestion just now helped us a ton!"

Yes, thank you so much!

"I am Zhang Zhidong. You... How did you come up with that solution just now?"

Have you encountered this before?

Zhang Zhidong thought about it, feeling it was unlikely. After all, the other was just a high school student. How could

he have faced such a large problem? To him, Su He’s plan was almost miraculous.

It was just a spur-of-the-moment idea, not really a good method, more like delaying the server’s number shake processing

time. Su He, of course, wouldn’t mention that this was a method he had thought of in a previous life to prolong server life. Without

Su He, today the server would have been fixed anyway, but in the evening, Zhang Zhidong would have pondered all night and finally come up with this

temporary method, extending Tencent’s servers by three days.

Three days later, they fell into a tough battle again.

Days like this lasted for nearly a month. Eventually, Ma Dateng had no choice but to make

a decision and sent Zhang Zhidong to Huaqiang North to buy parts and assemble his own server.

The cost was only one percent of the current server’s. It has to be said, extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures, Zhang Zhidong was that noble person in Ma Dateng’s destiny, every time he could save Tencent from crisis.

He was actually always the man behind Tencent Company.

Brother Ma only made some of the company’s decisions and steered the big picture, while product design and development,

like the later QQ Space, QQ Show, and so on, were all his responsibility.

And because of his height, privately, many people called him Don Gua,

including Master little Mage, who also called this classmate of his the same.

Remarkable wisdom indeed; young people’s brains do work faster. While we’re busy all day, a single sentence from him bests us!

Zhang Zhidong had a great appreciation for Su He.

There was a mutual understanding between programmers. As Su He looked at the few computers in front of him, he was

somewhat astonished:

"Over 70,000 users already?"

A few days ago, it was only over 50,000.

How did it grow so much these days?! Oh, you also know about our product?

Zhang Zhidong was quite excited at this point. He wasn’t puzzled why Su He knew about QQ, because the data inside the server

were mostly chat message data between users, you could easily guess what the product was.

There were too many, they simply couldn’t handle it, which led to the server being

totally overloaded!

"Yes, I’ve always been using your product!"

Su He smiled:

"Very good, in instant messaging, I think the experience is the best." "Oh? Really?" "Haha"

Zhang Zhidong couldn’t suppress the smile on his face upon hearing the praise for his product, after all,

he developed this program.

Hearing users’ compliments is the best recognition for him.

Currently, besides Da Q, there are several other instant messaging products, the key competitor being

ICQ, which stands for ’I Seek You’. It was the world’s first internet instant messaging

product.

And Da Q, which is actually OCQ, just copied its concept. This CQ software was developed by someone

who finished his military service just in 1996. Within less than a year, the user

growth was astonishing and it had already become the world’s largest instant messaging software by user count.

By the end of last year, 1998, this product was also acquired by AOL, a subsidiary of Time Warner Corporation, at a sky-high price of $407 million US.

At the time, the number of users had already exceeded 10 million.

Now it’s moving strongly toward 20 million.

Just like all internet innovative products can find their imitators in Huasha,

Tencent wasn’t even the first to copy ICQ.

The first imitator was CCQ, which emerged early in 1997. It was developed by an islander person from Huasha.

The product then quickly entered the Huasha mainland, though renamed to PCQ!

Currently, besides Da Q and CQ, it’s the third instant messaging software available, and there are similar ones like

two young engineers from Jinling who created Arctic Star, an ’Internet Genie’ that’s somewhat like ICQ;

Also, an internal product currently used by Guo’s country — PCCQ. Above are the five existing

instant messaging software in the market.

In all honesty, except for CQ, none are formidable. Well then, let’s get going. There’s nothing left for us here, we should leave before the

Telecom head sees us again and starts scolding. Da Lin lifted his clothes, patted Gong Hao on the shoulder: Mr. Fen, thanks for today, join us for dinner, if not, I’ll hack your hometown computer in Su City tomorrow. Gong Haohao put on a wry smile as Zhang Zhidong also prepared to leave. Truth is, neither he nor Da Li were allowed inside the server room, but with Old Xu acting as the inside man, this place was practically like their back garden — coming and going as they pleased, as if no one was around.

Almost every time there was an issue with the server, they rushed over. Because of this, Da Li even rented

a place nearby just in case problems arose at night, so they could quickly come for repairs. Old Xu even gave a key to each of them.

Betrayal chosen with loose hands.

The main boss of Telecom was actually aware but turned a blind eye as long as the server was alright, they could mess around however they wanted.

Little Su, how about it? Come with me, I’ll take you to check out our company. Zhang Zhidong was very polite,

actively inviting Su He to visit Tencent Company, which was precisely what Su He was hoping for. In fact, he had come with Gong Hao for exactly this reason.

He didn’t expect it to be this smooth!

"Sure, I’ll come and have a look."

Su He feigned hesitation for a moment, and Gong Hao waved him off: "It’s also good to take a look, it will make all your good impressions

of Da Q shatter!" Su He didn’t expect Gong Hao to stay around saying that. Is Tencent really this pitiful right now?

"Go away!"

Da Li gave a good-natured kick to Fen Hao:

"You’re the one shattering illusions. Do you think it’s

easy for us to start a business? Keep the good experiences for customers, leave the hardships to us, what do you know?! Fine, I don’t understand, don’t

come looking for me when there’re problems. It’s not easy for me to fly high at all!"