Chapter 79 Fission
There are now more than a thousand websites in America . Of course, the famous ones may be Netscape, Yahoo, AOL, Lycos, etc., but there are also many people working in the Internet industry.
For example, Wired magazine has launched its own online website. Other large and small media, magazines, giant companies, etc. are also launching websites one after another.
The emergence of DoubleClick is beneficial to small and medium-sized websites or personal websites. DoubleClick also places advertisements on these websites, giving them hope of survival while also attracting traffic to them.
On the other hand, DoubleClick now serves as a channel for the American Internet to connect with other industries. Companies like IBM, Compaq, General Motors and others place advertisements on the Internet through DoubleClick.
It is no exaggeration to say that DoubleClick is the Yanmen Pass of the American Internet industry today. This means that DoubleClick may not be the most famous in the Internet today, but it has the most extensive network of contacts.
When DoubleClick began to promote Hotmail to large and small websites in Silicon Valley, it was also actively promoting Hotmail to advertising sponsors such as IBM.
Wang Laboratories is also cooperating, especially in Europe where it has considerable influence, and this time it is also promoting Hotmail to a number of partners.
Hotmail, which did not appear in newspapers or magazines, began to penetrate into companies of all sizes in Silicon Valley and America.
On the Wired magazine side, the editor-in-chief Kevin Kelly also logged into Hotmail through the URL. When he was able to directly access his Hotmail email inbox through a URL, Kevin Kelly's eyes lit up.
Hotmail email is undoubtedly much more powerful than the Euroda email client launched by Steve Donnell, which requires a client to send and receive emails, not to mention that the latter has a capacity of only 2M!
Kevin Kelly is an expert in the Internet. He is basically "picky" about a product. Anything that can be certified by Kevin is basically top-notch among the similar products on the Internet.
Kevin checked the functions of Hotmail one by one. Needless to say, its convenience is great. Hotmail, which can be logged in through any computer, instantly beats Euroda, the mainstream email client in the email industry, and other email clients.
In terms of web appearance, the entire Hotmail email system and its backend were basically designed directly by Song Yang and developed by Wesley and others. Although it cannot be said to be beyond an era, this design is definitely a classic and will not be out of date even in ten years!
Anyway, when Kevin Kelly looked at the Hotmail email page, he couldn't help feeling comfortable.
As for the calendar, scheduled sending, email retrieval and other functions, Kevin was also surprised. Compared with the monotonous email, the emergence of these small functions undoubtedly made Kevin, who often needs to use email, feel very handy and practical.
Finally, there is a virus scanning function that was temporarily launched in the mailbox. Seeing this, Kevin couldn't help but press it. This function is divided into three parts. The first part is to scan the Hotmail mailbox for viruses to see if there are any unsafe emails.
The second is to perform a security scan on the entire computer, that is, to find out the vulnerabilities in the computer, and the last function is naturally to remove junk files.
After the scan, Kevin Kelly saw that the scan found several small vulnerabilities, some junk files, etc. He pressed the clear button and felt that this function seemed quite good.
The virus scanning function provided by Fortinet for Hotmail is actually just a prototype. How could they develop a top-level security protection software in such a short time? Those few vulnerabilities and files are also the most common small vulnerabilities on computers. But for ordinary users, with the emergence of this function, they feel that Hotmail email boxes and even the entire computer are a little safer...
"Bruno Song, the Internet genius from Houston, has once again surprised people. The emergence of Hotmail email may completely change the way Americans work in the future. Email will become a must-have product for countless people..."
Kevin Kelly must be quite capable to be touted as a prophet of the Internet. After experiencing it, he felt that the emergence of Hotmail may bring email into a new era. He also felt that major companies, schools and even the federal government will probably introduce Hotmail in the future!
Kevin wrote a lot on the online website of Wired magazine. As for the offline magazine report on Hotmail, it will be included in the next issue of the magazine.
If Kevin Kelly, in praising Song Yang and Hotmail, was still somewhat reserved, and was only praising them from the perspective of market demand and functionality, then Tristan on the other side was much more direct!
In addition to appearing on television for interviews, Tristan also writes special reviews for several technology media newspapers, magazines, etc.
After using Hotmail, Tristan wrote a review for a special issue of a Silicon Valley technology newspaper, and he started with the sentence, "The father of modern email!"
Simple, direct and crude, this is how Tristan flatters, without a trace of water. This is also the reason why those financial sponsors like to cooperate with Tristan. It is not like Kevin Kelly flattering people with reserve.
In a special comment to a technology newspaper, Tristan directly gave Song Yang the title of "Father of Modern Email". No matter who invented email, Tristan directly awarded the title to Song Yang!
“Hotmail will become a groundbreaking product. It will be the first product that everyone will come into contact with when they enter the Internet age. Countless people will be exposed to the Internet because of it.
I saw some media reports that Marc Andreessen is the Bill Gates of the Internet. I don’t disagree with this statement, but I think Bruno Song will be the one who changes the times! ”
Tristan secretly ranked Song Yang ahead of Marc Anderson, and he was just short of shouting out the slogan of "the No. 1 Internet person" for Song Yang. Anderson was the second Bill Gates, and Song Yang, like Bill Gates, was a person who created an era. This is like cursing without using any dirty words, and taking advantage of others and still being ungrateful. Song Yang was a generation higher than Marc Anderson for no reason.
The report by Wired magazine and Tristan's comments have caused some impact on Hotmail email in the Internet industry, but it has not yet broken the circle.
A newspaper that was not happy with Tristan's remarks retorted, "We have not seen what Hotmail looks like, but I think Tristan's comments on Bruno Song are a fraud. The father of email should belong to Ray Tomlin..."
Soon after, several more media outlets joined in. Before the popularity of Hotmail had even grown, the media in Silicon Valley were arguing fiercely about who was the "father of email." Ray Tomlin, David Crowland, and Leonard Crowland, all three of whom had made contributions to email, were brought up by the media, arguing fiercely over a title.
Of course, Song Yang must be included now. Tristan is still arguing in newspapers about Song Yang and Hotmail. He believes that Song Yang, the "father of modern email", is well-deserved. Anyone who has used Hotmail will know that Hotmail is completely different from previous emails. It is the email of the new era.
"Is this the new product launched by Bruno Song?"
At Netscape headquarters, Marc Andreessen, who was working with SUN to develop a new generation of browsers using the JAVA language, as well as Jim Clark, President Backus and others, all took time out of their busy schedules to look at the newly launched Hotmail email box.
"The level of completion is very high, and the experience is far better than other email clients such as Euroda!"
After experiencing Hotmail, Mark Anderson spoke the truth. He said that Tristan was no match for him and that he was surpassed by Song Yang. Anderson must have felt uncomfortable, but he would not lie and say that Hotmail was not as good as other products.
Jim Clark also tried it out and sent an email. Finally, he looked up and asked Netscape President Baxter, "How many downloads are there for Hotmail now?"
Email has not yet been taken seriously by people like Jim and Anderson, and naturally, they have not yet taken seriously how much influence email can have.
When talking about this, Baxed looked a little strange. "I'm not sure yet, but Hotmail has not been promoted in the media, and it is an invitation-only system. Only those who receive an invitation can get the right to use Hotmail."
Hearing this, Jim Clark and Marc Anderson were obviously stunned. Which Internet company nowadays doesn't advertise desperately to attract users? But when it comes to Song Yang, they are still driving users away for fear that too many users will occupy the Hotmail email server?
"I know that guy. He would never do anything stupid like staring at the Hotmail email box!" Jim Clark thought for a long time but still couldn't figure out what Song Yang was going to do, so he could only let Baxted keep an eye on Song Yang.
Not only Netscape, but also other Internet companies such as Yahoo that received the news were keeping an eye on Hotmail, but they were all waiting and watching, as they still had no idea what Hotmail was up to.
But in major companies and universities in America, Hotmail email is spreading at an alarming rate!
