The history of the development of Tencent QQ

On November 12, 1998, Ma Huateng and his college classmate Zhang Zhidong officially registered and established "Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems Co., Ltd.". The company's main business at that time was the expansion of wireless network paging systems. When the company was founded, its main business was to build an online paging system for paging stations. This kind of software development project for enterprises or units can be said to be the best choice for almost all small and medium-sized network service companies. In 1997, Ma Huateng came into contact with ICQ and became its user. He personally felt the charm of ICQ and also saw its limitations: First, the English interface, and second, it was quite difficult to use, which made ICQ very popular in China. Although it is widely used, it is not particularly popular and is mostly limited to "net bug" level experts. Ma Huateng and his partners initially wanted to develop a Chinese ICQ software and then sell it to powerful companies. Tencent did not think at the time that operating a Chinese ICQ would require a huge investment but would not make any money. At that time, it was because a large company intended to invest a large amount of money in the field of Chinese ICQ. Tencent also wrote a project construction document and had begun to develop and design OICQ. When the time came to bid, Tencent did not win the bid. As a result, Tencent decided to make OICQ on its own. You know, the price Tencent gave OICQ at that time was only more than 300,000 yuan. Later, when Tencent began to develop rapidly, Ma Huateng said very timely, "We need our own Chinese network software, we need our own ICQ!" But in fact, Tencent's launch of OICQ was purely accidental. If that big company If the company has no intention of investing in the field of Chinese ICQ, there will be no OICQ. If Tencent wins the bid, there will be no OICQ for Tencent. To some extent, Tencent's success is half luck and half strength.