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In the original time and space, this originally unknown team under SUN launched the Java language that is more powerful than the C language in the following years, and further launched the embedded language JavaScript that greatly improved the display function of Internet web pages.

In order to be able to get this team, Simon and SUN agreed that the expenses of the team will be borne by Igret, and the Java language patent originally planned to be developed will still be owned by SUN, but the web page embedded language JavaScript patent developed at the same time will be owned by Igret Ritter Corporation holds.

Although JavaScript still needs about a year to be perfected, with the cooperation of the IE team, many functions have been implemented ahead of schedule.

The Igret Portal, which seems to have appeared suddenly, and its functions such as online news, e-mail, personal homepage, and online forums, have attracted more and more attention from the media and the public during this period.

Inside a shop on a commercial street near Eaglet Corporation.

Simon, Tim Berners-Lee, Carol Butts, John Chambers, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Case were all gathered here.

If someone was able to take a picture at this time, they will definitely find out in a few years what a strong lineup this will be.

The store is a model of Internet cafes led by AOL, which is the result of a busy month after the AOL team moved to Silicon Valley.

Compared with the smoky and dark Internet cafes in memory, the Internet cafes in front of me can really be called 'bars'.The Internet cafe plan proposed by Simon is not to make money, but to promote the products of America Online, Eaglet and even Cisco. Therefore, the Internet cafe basically adopts the casual layout of a traditional coffee shop.

The Internet cafe model in front of you, with a store space of 50 square meters, has only 20 latest IBM desktop computers equipped with Windows 3.0 system inside, or a couple seat pattern side by side, or a small private space with a barrier, or it is very suitable The word arrangement of the exchange.

Not only surfing the Internet, but also providing a variety of beverages and snacks in the Internet cafe, giving people a relaxing and comfortable leisure environment as much as possible.

In terms of price, Simon really wants to adopt the subsidy operation model he remembers, after all, it is for brand promotion.

However, because AOL specially registered the subsidiary 'Internet Bar' brand, and introduced 40% of IBM's equity investment, it must still need to consider revenue and profit, so the online price is temporarily set at $3 per hour, drinks and refreshments And so on.

The movie ticket price in the United States has only just exceeded $4 in recent years. Considering the more comfortable environment conditions of Internet cafes under AOL compared with movie theaters, the Internet access price of $3 per hour is actually still low.Like many movie theaters, Internet cafes are likely to rely on "peripherals" such as drinks and snacks to make profits.

Chapter 348 Five Businesses (Revised)

Inside the model Internet cafe near Ygritte's headquarters.

Simon, Steve Case and others were sitting in front of the opened 15-inch monitors. Speaking of which, the CRT monitors in front of him were really not satisfactory to Simon, but the 15-inch color flat-screen monitors were already very popular in this era. good.

In Simon's opinion, the homepage of Igret Portal is also very simple, but fortunately, I don't remember Yahoo putting a few mahjong-style buttons like "two cakes" on the homepage, which is very simple and clear.

The website presents divisions in the font of "same". Under the topmost Eaglet LOGO, there are five functional navigation menus of "Internet News", "Online Games", "Personal Homepage", "E-mail" and "Internet Forum".On the left under the menu is a more subdivided small navigation, in the middle is the news content and the website directory that has joined the World Wide Web system, and on the right is the user login and registration page.

Although there are still many functions in the plan that will be launched one after another, in the next few years, Eaglet's portal business will focus on these five major businesses.

Among the five major businesses, online news is the least promising one in Simon's view.

However, before the emergence of subdivided professional news websites, the news content provided by the Eaglet portal will be a very attractive function for users.Therefore, Eaglet's team is already preparing for its own news media department.

Due to the limitations of browser functions at this time, the content of online games provided by Igret is not rich. For the time being, there are only some simple chess and card games and puzzle games. 'Minesweeper' game out.

Due to the temporary lack of content, Igret puts more attention on the game section on its 'interactivity'.

By adding points and ranking systems in the game, it stimulates the user's competitive spirit. At the same time, it also embeds a text chat function, so that you can chat with your friends or make new friends while playing the game.

Of course, this is only a temporary stopgap measure.

Igret is already investing in the development of network graphics and animation display technology similar to the later Flash functions, and plans to cooperate with the game manufacturer EA, which is held by Daenerys Entertainment, to develop online web games that can be integrated into the IE browser .

The official name of the personal homepage is Ygritte Blog, and it also integrates a microblog (Microblog).

In order to enrich the content of the portal website as soon as possible, more energy will be put on the blog operation in the early stage of the personal homepage business. Of course, the microblog business will not be left behind.

In addition, the personal homepage business has opened the corporate and celebrity authentication functions.

During this period, under the contact of Simon, most of the technology company executives holding shares in Westeros have opened their personal homepages, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, Card Luol Butz, Steve Case, Tim Berners-Lee, and more are all on the list.

The joining of a large number of executives of star technology companies is enough to drive the entire new technology industry in the United States to pay attention to the newly born Eaglet Portal.

On the Hollywood side, the official homepage of Daenerys Entertainment has also been officially opened, and in the future, it will connect to the official website that Daenerys Entertainment is building.Simon plans to attract public attention by announcing the progress of the company's various projects in advance on Daenerys Entertainment's official homepage.

In the past few weeks since the official homepage was opened, Daenerys Entertainment has continuously released exclusive news such as the opening of Daenerys Studios in Malibu, information about the supporting cast of "Wonder Woman", and the upcoming filming of "Terminator 2", which has attracted a lot of attention. Pretty strong focus.

The development of the American film industry also means a huge core group of movie fans.

Before the advent of the Internet, film fans could only track their favorite films and filmmakers through traditional media.Now, not only can this information be obtained in real time, but also the interaction with officials can be realized through the Internet, which is very attractive to movie fans.

As for celebrities, Simon did not use his influence in Hollywood because the number of Internet users was too small for the time being.

After all, a first-line Hollywood superstar opens a personal homepage, but only has a few thousand fans under his name, which is really not pretty.Simon plans to guide some Hollywood stars to join after the number of Eaglet users exceeds the million level.

However, although Simon did not exert his strength, many celebrities still took the initiative to open their personal homepages and authenticated them.

Sandra Bullock is one of them. After Simon heard the news, he specially asked someone to buy a new Panasonic digital camera and gave it to Sandra. It was a thank you for her 'support'. By the way, it was convenient to take pictures and upload.

It is possible to publish pictures on the personal homepage.

However, although digital cameras have been born in the 70s, they have not been popularized because the photographic effect is far inferior to that of traditional film cameras and the price is relatively expensive.

Most people are full of desire for expression. It is conceivable that as long as the Eaglet Portal develops, in order to be able to upload pictures for sharing, the popularity of digital cameras is just around the corner.

E-mail is undoubtedly the most practical of the five major businesses of Eaglet portal.

Under Simon's insistence, the e-mail function for the general public is still free after all, but there are certain functional restrictions due to technical and server capacity at this time.

Simon originally planned to take out the enterprise email business to cooperate with other companies. After Carol Bartz joined Eaglet, he persuaded Simon to give up the idea and handed over the operation of the enterprise email to the software department.

The last Igret online forum adopts the model of mature forums such as Tianya Community in Simon’s memory. Compared with the post bar model of topic discussion, the forum model is easier to produce relatively high-quality content. This board will also be like a personal homepage in the future The same provides a large amount of content for the portal.

After discussing the suggestions for the Internet cafe, everyone's topic inevitably turned to Ygritte's portal.

Simon stayed in San Francisco for a week last time, and later compiled a thick memo on various ideas about the Internet. He didn't keep it privately, and everyone at the scene had read it.

Regarding the profit model of Ygret Portal, Simon put forward the idea of ​​an Internet advertising alliance based on his memory.

Many small websites or personal sites cannot operate a revenue system alone, but these sites happen to constitute most of the content resources of the Internet.

According to the principle of the long tail theory, as long as enough small and micro websites that are ignored by most people can be combined to form an alliance and combined for advertising operations, it will be enough to generate benefits that can compete with some content giants.Google and Amazon in the original time and space are very typical long-tail companies.

"Simon, I found a problem," everyone was discussing, and Carol Bartz, who was very feminine and occasionally uttered a few American curses, suddenly said: "I want to realize the long-tail effect you mentioned. , Even if the number of Internet users reaches 1000 million or tens of millions, it is not enough, and even if the number of Internet users has the potential to hit a higher level, how long do you think it will take?"

Carol Butz is mainly responsible for the sales and operation of Eaglet related application software. In Simon's vision, for a long time in the future, Eaglet's software revenue will be used to subsidize the operation of the portal website.

As America Online upgrades the World Wide Web technology for new and old users, in less than a month, 10 users have installed the IE browser. According to the original agreement of $10 operator pricing, Eaglet has already brought $100 million in revenue.

If the number of Internet users can reach tens of millions in the next few years, the IE browser will also be able to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for Eaglet.

Looking at the Eaglet Portal website again, let alone profits, the Eaglet Portal has almost no revenue in the short term.

Obviously, as long as the portal business is abandoned, it is easy for Eaglet to achieve profitability through software sales.Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that Carol Bartz should not agree with Simon's burning money in the portal business.

Simon heard Carol Bartz's question, looked at the outspoken female executive, and said, "In 1980, the number of VCRs in North America was 2%, but by 1990, this number had risen to 70%. It took ten years to achieve ubiquity. I believe that the Internet should also have this potential."

Carol Bartz quickly retorted: "These are two industries with no reference at all, and they are not comparable."

In the Internet cafe, everyone stopped discussing and watched with great interest as this female executive who had just joined the company less than a month attacked her boss.

Simon seemed very patient, and said, "Well, Carol, you should know Moore's Law proposed by Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel, right?"

Carol Bartz put it ably: "Computer performance doubles every 18 to 24 months as the number of components that an integrated circuit can accommodate increases."

Simon leaned casually on the back of his chair, knowing that everyone around him should have doubts similar to Carol Bartz, his eyes scanned the Internet cafe for a week, and said: "The increase in computer performance also means that we can Realize more functions on the Internet. The current service of Eaglet portal is still very crude in my opinion. In the future, I believe that the news information on the Internet platform can completely replace the traditional paper media platform, and online games can far exceed simple chess and cards and puzzles, and even realize the scene where tens of thousands of people interact in a game server at the same time. The functions of e-mail, personal homepage and online forum will also be more powerful. And, not only that, the future Internet, in addition to news , games and social networking, people should also be able to obtain all functional experiences such as novels, music, videos and online shopping. You can imagine if a person can obtain all the information and information provided by newspapers, TV and physical stores in daily life through the Internet service, and the price is relatively very low, even free, how many people will be attracted to such a platform?"

Everyone in the Internet cafe belongs to the industry elite. Simon just simply described it. Everyone can easily outline a grand industrial blueprint in their minds. Tim Berners-Lee and Steve Case are excited, John Chambers looked fascinated, and Jeff Bezos rubbed his knees, with an obvious eagerness in his expression, as if he couldn't wait to return to Eaglet's headquarters and start working.

Carol Bartz, who was the first to question Simon, was silent for a moment, and finally said: "But, Simon, it may take a long time, maybe ten years, maybe 20 years. Moreover, I think it will take a long time to develop a complete This is a brand new industry, which cannot be accomplished by one company.”

"Of course not one," Simon said, "In fact, there are many. For example, we have Cisco, America Online, and Igret. In addition, Westeros has also invested in Microsoft, Intel , SUN, Oracle and other new technology companies, these can become our allies in jointly developing the Internet industry.”

John Chambers was from Sun. Hearing this, he said, "Simon, so you've had this idea three years ago?"

After the stock market crash in 1987, Simon made billions of dollars through the operation of S&P 500 index futures, and immediately invested most of the funds in new technology fields.

Simon shook his head, casually said a lie that wasn't a lie, and said, "To be more accurate, it should be when I first joined Stanford and came into contact with Arpanet."

In 1985, a poor young man from the bottom class got a full scholarship to Stanford University through years of hard work.

then.

In just a few months, it went crazy.

Simon wasn't just Carol Bartz's boss, but literally everyone else on the set.

Everyone fell into a unified silence again.

If being crazy once can produce such an amazingly talented guy, it seems that it is not bad to be so crazy once.

John Chambers took the lead in recovering from this silent atmosphere, and said: "Simon, there have been some other network router companies in the industry. If we want to ensure Cisco's dominant position, we must conduct an IPO as soon as possible and then grow through acquisitions." Its own strength. Moreover, Cisco maintains an absolute lead and can also ensure the promotion of World Wide Web technology."

"You can discuss Cisco's IPO with James and the others tomorrow. However, before Cisco goes public, it will re-plan and set up a dual-class shareholding structure to ensure Eaglet's absolute control over Cisco. Moreover, during the IPO process, Iraqi Great Company will also participate in the subscription to ensure its own shareholding ratio."

Simon said, looked at Steve Case again, and asked, "Steve, what do you mean?"

In just one month, the number of AOL users exceeded 10, and Steve Case was full of ambition at this time.

If there is no such big donor as Simon, it is naturally the best choice to immediately push AOL to the public market to raise funds.

Now, of course, Steve Case is no longer anxious about this matter. Anyway, the absolute control of the company already belongs to Westeros. If the IPO is carried out in advance, the shareholding ratio of their original partners will be further reduced.According to what Simon said just now, Simon will implement a dual-level shareholding structure, and Westeros obviously does not intend to give up its absolute control over AOL.

If AOL wants to expand, an IPO is definitely inevitable, but it can also accumulate for another year or two.

Thinking of this, Steve Case said: "I think it's the best time to consider an IPO after the number of AOL users exceeds 100 million."

Simon nodded with a smile, but shook his head again, saying: "It's still a bit conservative, maybe, you can set the target at 1000 million."

In the original time and space, the World Wide Web was announced to be free and open in 1993. The GUI browser, the "key" to open the door to the World Wide Web, appeared, so AOL began to grow explosively. By 1996, the number of users had exceeded [-] million.

Now, Simon has released the technical standards of the World Wide Web three years in advance, the graphical interface browser has also been developed, and the portal website business with complete content has been launched in advance to ensure Internet content resources.

With personal computers and online networks having accumulated many years of experience, coupled with Simon's personal promotion, he believes that it will still only take three years for the number of AOL users to go from 10 to 1000 million this time.

Chapter 349 "The Love Between Humans and Ghosts" Released (Revised)

The last week of May 1990 quietly ended in the summer file opened by "Back to the Future 5" and "Firebird Attack".

During the week from May 5th to May 25st, the two new films that attracted the most attention were not the two new films, but "Batman: Beginning of War", which was officially released in North America.

《蝙蝠侠：开战时刻》自去年12月22日上映到5月31日下档，总计在北美院线停留23周时间，北美本土总票房最终达到4亿3686万美元，不仅创造了好莱坞电影首轮放映的票房纪录，票房数字上也超越了另外两部经过重映后票房破4亿美元的《星球大战》和《外星人ET》两部大片。

At the same time, the cumulative overseas box office of "Batman: Beginning of War" as of the last week of May also reached 5 million US dollars.

Although most of the overseas box office countries have already been screened, judging from the current screening progress of overseas countries, "Batman: Beginning of War" still has a box office potential of at least US$1 million overseas.Although it is difficult for this record-breaking superhero movie to hit the $10 billion mark at the global box office, the global box office of $9 million is already a certainty.

Regardless of inflation, the global box office of more than 9 million US dollars has pushed "Batman: Beginning of War" to the No. 1 box office in Hollywood history.

Moreover, not only at the box office, in the first half of the year, the peripheral sales of "Batman: Beginning of War" have also exceeded 15 billion US dollars.

Although most countries and regions, including North America, will be downgraded one after another, there is no problem in accumulating US$5 million in peripheral sales in the second half of the year, and the scale of film peripheral sales may even exceed the original total annual forecast of US$20 billion. .

The more impressive the results of "Batman: Beginning of War", the more pressure will be on Jane de Bont, who was handpicked by Simon to take over as the director of "Batman: The Dark Knight".

This kind of pressure doesn’t just come from within. Fans who are worried that this cinematographer who has never directed a movie will mess up the sequel will have trouble every day. A dedicated 'We don't want Jane de Bont' fan group will be.

In order to appease movie fans, Daenerys Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures have to repeatedly hint that the helm of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is still Simon himself, and Jane de Bont will only be an 'executor'.

When Jane de Bont even received letters of death threats from Batman fans asking him to quit directing, Simon had to send him far ahead of time to Melbourne.Moreover, Simon could clearly feel that the photographer-turned-director had a lot of energy in his heart, which made Simon more confident in his choice.

"Batman: Beginning of War" was the last film related to Daenerys Entertainment last year. This film is down, and Daenerys Entertainment's other movies at the end of last year basically ended.

The earlier "Scream 2" ended up with a domestic box office of 1.12 million US dollars in North America, and the overseas release is also coming to an end. The box office figure is roughly 9300 million US dollars, and the global box office has accumulated 2.05 million US dollars. But it is still the most successful youth horror film series in Hollywood.

The North American domestic box office of "Flying Beyond Childhood" in the Thanksgiving schedule was finally fixed at 1.63 million US dollars. Due to the impact of "Batman: Beginning of War", the box office was slightly lower than the expectations at the beginning of the film's release.Overseas, as of the end of May, the box office has accumulated 5 million US dollars, and it is estimated that there is still a box office potential of about 1.3 million US dollars, and the global box office is expected to reach 3000 million US dollars.

The box office of the fashion documentary "Gucci Mark" finally reached US$4163 million in North America. Because Gucci spared no effort to promote the model only for marketing and not for profit, the box office figures in overseas countries were better than those in North America. By the end of May, the box office had exceeded US$5 million, and the global figure exceeded 6200 million. The number not only makes "Gucci Mark" the most successful fashion documentary in Hollywood history, but also greatly enhances Gucci's brand awareness.

Influenced by "Gucci Mark", Hollywood has already started producing more than 3 fashion documentaries of various types, and it is difficult to count other projects that are in the pipeline.

"Driving Miss Daisy", which was the main hit of Gaomen Films at the end of last year, was screened in China before "Batman: Begins to War".

Compared with the film's production cost of 700 million US dollars, "Drive Miss Daisy" not only made Gaomen Pictures a lot of money, but also proved once again the huge commercial potential of low-cost literary films.

However, due to the strong localized style of the film itself, the overseas box office performance of "Driving Miss Daisy" was not satisfactory.Although it has the blessing of the Oscar's best picture aura, as of the end of May, the overseas box office was only more than 5 million US dollars, and the total overseas box office potential is expected to be around 2600 million US dollars.

When the next file of "Batman: Beginning of War" sparked media discussions, the two new films that just passed a week were naturally not completely forgotten.

In the first week of its opening, "Back to the Future 3" received a box office of 2019 million US dollars in seven days with a scale of 2776 yuan.

Compared with the second part, the box office of this ending sequel has dropped significantly again. Coupled with the unsatisfactory word of mouth, no one expects "Back to the Future 3" to have a beautiful long-term success. The total box office in North America is expected to be roughly 8000 million to $1 million.

However, the results of "Back to the Future 3" are actually not bad, at least, far surpassing the "Firebird Expert" that Paramount placed high hopes on hitting the record of "Top Gun".

With the same scale of 2006 opening screens, the box office of "Firebird Attack" in the first week and seven days was only 755 million US dollars.

In such a highly competitive summer file, the average price of barely more than 3700 US dollars means that the film will be greatly reduced on the screen two weeks after its release, and will basically enter the downgrade state after one month.

While there hasn't been much inside talk about Rocketman and Firebird in the public media, Hollywood has basically spread the word that Paramount cut both projects from Daenerys Entertainment at a hefty price .