Reborn since 1993

Chapter 456 Password
The person who called was Guo Jingyun, general manager of the Internet department of Dongling Hi-Tech and also general manager of Tianya Company.

Hearing Li Dongling's words, Guo Jingyun laughed a few times awkwardly. Tianya.com was originally scheduled to be launched in the second half of this year, but because of revisions, program modifications, new features, etc., it has been delayed until now, and the cost has naturally increased a lot.

"Don't worry, Mr. Li, Tianya.com will definitely be online on time this time. Now, advertisements about Tianya.com's upcoming launch have been published in many media outlets, including Computer News and Computer World.

In addition, Shuguang, Mazhan, Changcheng, etc. have also started to promote Tianya.com! "

Guo Jingyun said to Li Dongling that there was no such concept as Internet water army at that time, and no one cared about traffic diversion.

BBS sites like Mazhan, Shuguang, Xinyue, etc. all belong to Huiduo.com, but it is common for newly opened sites to advertise and attract people on other sites in order to gain popularity.

It is not considered a violation for Tianya.com to advertise on these sites now, but if it were to happen in the future, it would be considered a disaster. The major websites are trying their best to grab users, so how could they tolerate the other side grabbing their customers?
"How's the preparation for the launch event going?" Li Dongling asked Guo Jingyun.

"Everything is ready. In fact, a large part of the delay in opening the site is due to these activities. To be honest, the money spent on them is enough to host a celebrity concert!" Guo Jingyun couldn't help but complain.

"Thank you for your hard work this year. When Tianya Online is launched, I will send everyone a big red envelope!"

Li Dongling came to the study room upstairs and said to Guo Jingyun on the other end of the phone that in order to launch Tianya.com, the people at Yanjing Tianya Company basically did not take any vacation this year and have been busy all the time just for the launch of Tianya.com.

New Year's Eve was naturally noisy. This year, the Li family had two tables of New Year's Eve dinner. Except for the bodyguards who were in charge of security tonight, everyone else, including the female family members, drank.

Watching the Spring Festival Gala while eating New Year's Eve dinner has become a routine without us noticing, and has become one of the memories of countless people from childhood to adulthood.

Li Dongling looked at Li Zhenlin who was drinking, Wang Xiulan who kept urging everyone to eat more, and Li Dongshan, Li Dongyue and others who were serving food. This kind of scene of the whole Li family eating New Year's Eve dinner together had never happened again since Li Dongling arrived in the provincial capital in his previous life.

"Have a drink!"

Li Dongling raised his glass to everyone in the Li family, and then everyone raised their glasses and clinked them together.

Li Dongyue also raised her glass, took a sip of the wine, and stuck out her tongue because it was so spicy. Wang Xiulan patted her little girl's back in amusement and replaced the wine with sweet red wine, or to be more precise, an alcoholic beverage.

This kind of wine is similar to a beverage. You can't taste the alcohol at all when you drink it. In fact, it is blended and is somewhat similar to the RIO wine of later generations.

The price is not expensive, and countless people drink it as a beverage. When they grow up, it has become a childhood memory for countless people. However, no matter how expensive the wine is, you can't drink the sweet wine in your memory...

The New Year’s Eve dinner will last for a long time. The custom of staying up all night is still very popular at this time, and the Spring Festival Gala is broadcast on TV.

This year, for the first time, a branch venue was set up in addition to the main venue in Yanjing for the Spring Festival Gala. The provincial capital Xiyuan became one of the branch venues. I wonder if Pingyang will have the opportunity to serve as a branch venue for the Spring Festival Gala in the future.

There was a skit called "Adventures in Working" on TV. Well, that was the origin of the code that became one of the most famous codes in the Internet age, how much does a glass of Palace Jade Liquor cost?

After eating for a while, Li Dongling watched the Spring Festival Gala with Li Zhenlin and Wang Xiulan for a while, and then he had to go upstairs to the study. There were so many phone calls and text messages that he couldn't stop them.

To a certain extent, this is also thanks to Dongling Hi-Tech. In the past, there were no PHS mobile phones, mobile phones were expensive and mobile phone charges were even more expensive. The mainstream way of communication was to make calls on landlines, plus a pager that could not provide real-time communication.

So to be honest, the frequency of phone calls is not very high. On the one hand, it is a technical issue, and of course, the bigger reason is the problem of financial constraints.

However, since the advent of the Xiaolingtong system, the price of mobile phones has been brought down, and mobile phone charges have also been reduced. It has become normal to make phone calls and send text messages to express wishes during festivals.

Among them, Focus Media is the main force of blessing text messages. It has also set up a special text message team to rack their brains to figure out how to edit blessing text messages for each program, and then help users send them in batches. Now during festivals, Focus Media's text message advertising business can grow by dozens of times...

Li Dongling was no exception. The text messages he received and the phone calls he received tonight made his phone ring almost non-stop.

People who know Li Dongling's mobile phone number are either internal staff of Dongling Hi-Tech, or people who have a close relationship with Li Dongling, or people he has to socialize with. Li Dongling still needs to reply to the text messages from these people.

In addition, Li Dongling also called Pingyang, the provincial capital, and some people in Yanjing, including Gu Xiguang from the Economic and Trade Commission. Then Ning Wenke from Hong Kong also called. Just after he finished talking to Ning Wenke, Yao Luoying called again. When Li Dongling finished talking on the phone, he saw that it was already early in the morning.

Fireworks were also set off in the Li family courtyard at this time. The sky was filled with fireworks and it became bright as day in an instant. The flowers bloomed tonight and another year began.

Retracting his gaze, Li Dongling turned on the computer in the study. This computer can use dial-up to access the Internet. As for the speed, don't compliment it, but these days, being able to access the Internet is good enough. Who needs a bicycle?

It is not easy to access the Internet and enter a website now. You need to enter the URL before you can enter the website. Li Dongling struggled for a long time before he clicked to enter the Tianya website, but he did not get in and needed buffering.

The main reason why there are rumors that there were many Internet talents in the early days is that the threshold for Internet access is very high. You need a computer, Internet access, and certain technical skills, which creates an invisible threshold.

Looking at the web pages buffered on the computer, if this situation happened in the future, it would probably be considered as a network outage and the router would be checked, but now it is very normal. Li Dongling waited for a long time before the web interface of Tianya.com slowly appeared.

The first thing I saw when I saw Tianya.com was its simplicity, a blue and white page with the words Tianya.com in the upper left corner. There were no pictures because... they couldn't be loaded.

Li Dongling scrolled the web page and felt a bit of lag, but in this era, it was already quite "amazing". Compared with BBS forums such as Mazhan and Shuguang, it was at least the prototype of a website.

There are five major sections on the homepage, namely Tianya Chat, Tianya Entertainment, Tianya Sports, Tianya Literature, and Tianya Stocks. When Li Dongling clicked on these sections, the lag became more obvious, but this is the best optimization that Tianya.com can make.

Li Dongling originally thought that since the website was just launched, there would not be many people using it. However, when he clicked into Tianya Chat, he saw that it was quite lively. In just a short while, there were already 20 to 30 posts, most of which were spam.

"Is this Tianya.com?"

“Did I post this?”

"This crappy website is so hard to post. I waited for more than ten minutes before the website was refreshed. I even need to register an account to post a message?"

"Did you watch the skit tonight? I think the working adventure is the best skit of this year's Spring Festival Gala!"

As soon as this post was refreshed, within a minute, a reply appeared below, which was obviously waiting on the website and refreshing the page, "People in East Guangdong never watch the Spring Festival Gala!"

"My cousin from western Guangdong proves that what the above person said is correct."

After this post, people from all over the world started to show up in the forum.

Li Dongling saw that Tianya.com could be used to browse posts, but if one wanted to post or reply to posts, one had to register. It was simple. There was no email address and no phone number registration. All one needed was a string of numbers as an account, and then one set a password and gave oneself a nickname.

Most of the users who surf the Internet nowadays are still "honest people". There are no such things as "There are always villains who want to harm me" or "Kick the lame man's good leg hard". As for the online names like "The Dream of Nine Hundred Million Girls", they have not become popular yet. Li Dongling saw that the online names of users who post on Tianya.com now are either literary or a string of numbers, and some users use their real names to surf the Internet.

After registration, if you are worried about losing your account or recovering it after it is stolen, you can also "bind" your mobile phone number. This requires sending a two-yuan text message, and then you can bind your account.

If your account is lost or your password is stolen, how do you recover it? Just call Tianya's customer service and the backend technical department will change the stolen account password back through the server. It is very simple and does not require any tricks. It all depends on the backend's hard work!
However, just for this registration function, Tianya.com needs to purchase an additional server specifically for data storage, which increases the monthly expenses significantly.

Li Dongling also registered an account and entered my account, and found that the page was also very simple, but there was a sign-in function and an account level display. After Li Dongling clicked to sign in, it showed that he had signed in for one day, and then the level zero account became level one!
This sign-in and level function was developed by Tianya.com based on Li Dongling's suggestion. Although these two functions may seem simple, they can increase the activity and stickiness of a considerable number of users, especially some obsessive-compulsive users who have to sign in once a day even if they don't post on Tianya.com, otherwise they will not feel at ease throughout the day.

Li Dongling looked up at the time and saw that Tianya.com had only been online for less than half an hour, but there were already dozens of posts scattered across the entire website. Behind them, there was no telling how many users were peeking at the screen but had not posted anything.

Compared with the previous BBS forums such as Mazhan, Shuguang, and Great Wall, which only had a few or a dozen users at most, these early Internet users felt like they had entered a new world when they entered Tianya.com. They could sit in front of the computer screen and communicate with people who were thousands of miles away in the same post. The netizens' replies in minutes or even seconds were something they could not experience on the previous BBS forums.

"Welcome to Tianya.com. I am the administrator of Tianya.com. To celebrate the opening of the website, Tianya.com has prepared several activities for you to participate in. In addition, Tianya.com has some website rules that you need to abide by..."

At this time, a new post appeared on the homepage of the website. It was posted by an account using the administrator's alias.

(End of this chapter)