After leaving the space agency, Duan Yun came to the branch where his sister worked in the afternoon.

Duan Fang was very happy to see her brother arriving. She took her brother to visit the company's newly leased office floor and introduced the branch's recent development and research progress.

In fact, when Duan Yun set up a branch in BJ, his original intention was to let his sister who married BJ continue to work in his company. After all, his sister Duan Fang is the earliest young technical backbone in the company, and in terms of both technology and ability

, are all very outstanding, and she is

She also loves this job very much, so opening a company in BJ, on the one hand, allows her to continue doing the job she likes in BJ, and on the other hand, it also makes some contributions to her company, but she has no intention of turning the BJ branch into

If it gets bigger, it will just be used as an office.

However, in the past two years, especially the last year, Tianyin Group's bj branch has developed very rapidly. From the beginning, there were only one-story office buildings with dozens of technical and management personnel, and now it has expanded to renting a type of office building in Haiding District.

The five-story office building of the building has 1,300 employees. This staff size has exceeded that of the Hong Kong branch. It can be said that it is the largest electronic product R&D center of Tianyin Group besides the Shenzhen headquarters.

"Since last year, we have recruited nearly 700 fresh graduates here, and more than 200 people have switched jobs from other technology companies in BJ." Sitting in the company's office area, Duan Fang pointed.

The busy staff in the office area said to Duan Yun: "Now the recruitment threshold in our branch has also increased.

I have learned a lot. In the past, it only required fresh graduates, whether they were from key universities or non-key universities, regardless of their majors. As long as they had a diploma, they could enter. Now the requirement is that they must be from key universities, and they must be professionally oriented. I used to be very knowledgeable about human resources.

The department has too little management experience, and now it feels like the company is really on the right track.”

"Just take your time, not to mention you have done a good job in the past two years." Duan Yun smiled slightly and then said: "Do you have any new research and development plans recently?"

"I have reported to the company before and told you that the product research and development tasks are mainly for the upgrade of domestic computers and DVDs, as well as the maintenance and upgrade of domestic systems. Currently, there are dozens of them here at BJ

Government departments have already used the new system developed by our company, and in the next step we are going to optimize this system and add some new functional software based on the requirements of each user unit," Duan Fang said.

"The government departments here in BJ are the first users in China to use domestic operating systems, and the departments are very high-level. They have many requirements for the new system. If this system can succeed in BJ, it means that we

The company's domestic system promotion plan has been more than half successful." Duan Yun glanced at his sister and then said: "As for the software development you mentioned, which aspect does the customer currently have more demand for?"

"Mainly in terms of local area network, because now the computer penetration rate in various departments of BJ is relatively high, and computers have become the standard equipment for many department heads. They have a lot of work needs to transfer files or exchange information, so in the past few months, we have

Based on our company's new system platform, we are preparing to develop a series of LAN communication software. In addition to the original text transmission software, we are currently developing communication software that can smoothly transmit pictures, audio, and video."

"Communication software that can smoothly transmit pictures, audio and video?" Duan Yun was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then asked repeatedly: "What is the current development progress of this software?"

A long time ago, Duan Yun had thought of developing a software instant messaging system, which would be an instant messaging software similar to QQ and WeChat in later generations, so as to take advantage of the upcoming Internet era.

But in fact, it is not difficult to simply write a set of communication software with text functions. In fact, the history of instant messaging can be traced back to 1960.

Before 1960, computers were still in the era of batch processing. The so-called batch processing meant that user programs and data were loaded into cassettes or tapes in advance and read by the computer in a certain order, so that the programs and data that the user wanted to execute

A way to process them in batches.

With the development of the Internet, people urgently need an online chat system to solve some problems encountered at work.

In 1973, Doug Brown and David R. Woolley created Talkomatic on the Plato system at the University of Illinois, which was the world's first instant messaging system.

Talkomatic provides six channels, each channel allows up to five users to chat online. Later, this system was applied to the world's first online forum, Plato Notes. It was not until the 1980s that this forum gradually disappeared from people's consciousness.

in sight.

Talkomatic's method of sending information is different from today's instant messaging software such as QQ and WeChat. When we use WeChat to communicate, we need to type out the text message first and then click the "Send" button before the other party can see the message. But talkomatic is

In real time, every time the sender types a word, the receiver can receive it immediately.

With the development of the Internet, instant messaging software began to appear. Among them, icq, developed by three Israeli youths in 1996, is the most famous. It is the world's first instant messaging software.

Once icq was launched, in just 6 months, it became the instant messaging software with the largest number of users in the world. Even in Asia, where the Internet was relatively underdeveloped at the time, the market share exceeded 70%.

In 1998, the number of icq users reached 12 million, and it was spotted by AOL and acquired for US$287 million. At almost the same time, Ma Huateng, who was in China, saw the huge commercial value of instant messaging and established an online paging system for the paging station.

The main business was changed to the development of instant messaging tool-oicq.

Just when OICQ was taking the Chinese instant messaging market by storm, AOL, the parent company of ICQ, sued Tencent for infringement, and this was how the famous Tencent QQ came into being.

But it is not easy to develop a set of instant messaging software with voice and video in this era, because in this era, computer hardware and other related video and audio software are not mature, especially the video software and audio software are too large.

It is simply impossible to complete the transfer.

In addition, computers in the early 1990s did not have video functions, only some small animations.

Until about 1995, there were videos in avi format, but the picture was very small, otherwise it would be very laggy.
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