This article was translated by CSDN and published on CSDN’s official account hackernoon.com/the-chinese-social-network-bb282204af9c with the original title of “The Brutal Growth history of Tencent Empire”.
1, the introduction
2. Related articles
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3. What you see now is Tencent
4. Ma Huateng in his early years
FidoNet before the Internet
FidoNet
FidoNet
FidoNet Encyclopedia:
On February 16, 1978, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launch the first Computerized Bulletin Board System (BBS) in Chicago. After several modifications, in 1984 Tom Jonning of the United States developed a set of electronic functions of the electronic bulletin board program FIDO, FidoNet (Huiduo network) can realize the function of automatic mutual information transmission. FidoNet is a simple BBS, arguably the ancestor of modern forums, which can be accessed via Internet E-mail.
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ICQ and the dawn of instant messaging
8. Near death
9. “Seriously, how are you going to make money?”
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The success of wechat will allow Tencent to continue to dominate the mobile Internet era
It reminds us of What Steve Jobs said about the intersection of humanity and science:
“I read something that one of my heroes — Edwin Land of Polaroid — talked about the importance of standing at the crossroads of humanity and science, so that’s what I’m going to do.”
Appendix: More articles
[1] Technical stories about QQ and wechat:
Technical past: wechat valuation has exceeded 500 billion, Lei Jun had the opportunity to incorporate Zhang Xiaolong and its Foxmail
Behind QQ and wechat’s ferocious growth: The years of Tencent’s network infrastructure
Gossip instant communication: Tencent’s growth history is a QQ growth history
2017 wechat data report: The number of daily active users reached 900 million and 38 billion messages were sent daily
How much money did Tencent spend developing wechat? Is the technology really that difficult? Where is difficult?
Technology past: Tencent in the early stage of business – 16 years ago in the winter, who moved ma Huateng’s code
Technical past: the most complete QQ icon change process in history, tracing the evolution history of IM giants
Technology past: how do “QQ group” and “wechat red envelope” come from?
Development past: the depth of 2010 to 2015, wechat all the way behind the wind and rain
Development of the past: wechat millennium unchanged that flash screen picture origin
Development past: Record the story behind wechat 3.0 (9 months after the release of wechat 1.0)
A wechat intern: The wechat development team in my eyes
First revealed: QQ real-time video chat behind the mysterious organization
Why is instant messaging social APP startup a pit?
Wechat seven years review: after many doubts and bad comments, only to have today’s strong
Former founding team members share: The past and present life of wechat — the inevitable and accidental success of wechat
Instant messaging business must-read: decrypting wechat’s product positioning, innovative thinking, design rules, etc
QQ’s success is far from as smooth and easy as you imagine
Deep analysis of QQ status: do you still think QQ has been defeated by wechat?
[Tech Imagination] Is it technically possible to get 1.4 billion Chinese into a wechat group?
QQ and wechat are stagnating, which means the second spring of instant messaging and social app entrepreneurship has arrived?
The chicken rib function developed by wechat in those years, and the thinking it brings to us
Reading wechat: The Evolution of a mainstream IM social tool from Version 1.0 to 7.0
As the king of IM social products, QQ and wechat in the end what is the difference
Restore the real Tencent: from the least favored, to the instant messaging giant grassroots entrepreneurial history
More of the same…
[2] Practical summary and Sharing of instant messaging/social products:
Why is instant messaging social APP startup a pit?
Lao Luo recently released the “bullet message” this IM, the main social contact can be on the standard wechat?
Take stock and reflect on mobile IM apps struggling to survive in the shadow of wechat
The chicken rib function developed by wechat in those years, and the thinking it brings to us
Renren’s Vanishing Renren: A Review and Reflection of The Internet’s social products of the Past decade
Twenty Years of Chinese Internet social networking: The Story of Internet entrepreneurship witnessed by the whole people
Discussion on popular IM features: Why there is no message “read” function in wechat?
Wang Xin explains why she named herself “Toilet MT” in response to wechat ban
More of the same…