The God of Coding, Becoming an IT Conglomerate

46. portal

“So, in the end, all sites have to go through portal sites.”

“Sure. A portal site is a kind of… You can think of it as an entrance.”

“Exactly.”

Hoyoung explained to Jinchan about the portal site.

portal site.

It refers to a site that is designed to be visited when accessing the Internet.

The word portal means “entrance” or “front door” in English.

“The portal will become much more than just a front door.”

“Important meaning, what do you mean?”

“For the public in the future, the portal they use as a representative will soon become a proper noun for the Internet.”

Hoyoung later recalled the power of portal sites.

In particular, Yahoo! has even been used as a term representing web surfing for a while.

“The portal site will have two main functions. One is information delivery and community functions, and the other is a search engine.”

It was not too difficult for Jinchan to understand the communication and community.

The PC communication currently being serviced had enough of that level of functionality.

However, the word search engine was unfamiliar to him.

“A search engine?”

“It is literally a search. In the future, people will be free to create their own websites, or homepages. The most important function of a portal site is to help you find the website you want to enter.”

“Aha. You can think of it as if each individual has one of the current PC communications.”

“you’re right. And now, the internet will be flooded with huge amounts of information. A search engine allows you to find only the information you want in the waves of the flood.”

Jin-chan agreed with most of what Ho-yeong said, but there was one thing he did not understand.

“By the way, Hoyoung. According to what you said, the knowledge or information you know in the space called the Internet website… Doesn’t this mean that the search engine we are talking about is only useful when people upload it? Will people really use the Internet actively?”

“yes. I will definitely upload it.”

Hoyoung said in a confident voice.

Jin-chan sometimes felt strange when Ho-young made such an expression.

It even made me feel as if I had seen the future.

“After the opening of ADSL, it is two to three years at the most. There is nothing to worry about as long as PCs and the Internet are widely available.”

“And before that?”

“Until then, we need to focus on the community function of the portal site and create a new content creation team to create a way for people to spend time on the Internet. Of course, there should be a space for individuals to upload from the beginning.”

In the beginning, Hoyoung thought that the current level of PC communication would be sufficient until there were not many users.

“It would not be too difficult to provide a service that provides a bulletin board. The feature you really need to work on is the search engine. However, you don’t have to provide a perfect search engine from the start. There won’t be any data to search that far.”

Hoyoung decided to make a search engine with only basic performance for the first time.

Based on the initial service, the company planned to increase the number of Internet users and advance into the global market by announcing a high-performance search engine when people became accustomed to the Internet.

He looked at Jin-chan, who nodded, and continued.

“The search engine is the most important element that needs to be perfected over the next few years.”

“Yes, I fully understand what you are talking about. As you said, if an era comes in the future when everyone in the world uses the Internet, and then the portal site we create becomes the gateway to accessing other websites, then that portal goes beyond the meaning of a simple site, right?”

“ha ha ha. Perfect.”

Hoyoung smiled happily looking at Jinchan.

“Okay, then let’s start right away. From what I’ve heard, it doesn’t seem like something that can be done overnight.”

“you’re right. We need to hire people and prepare them from now on.”

Lee Jin-chan agreed with Ho-yeong.

Decided to set up detailed plans and schedules later, Jin-chan, who was leaving Ho-yeong’s office to go to the finance team to accurately grasp the available budget, opened the door halfway and hesitated as if he remembered something.

“Senior, have you forgotten something?”

“It makes me sad when I think about it.”

“What?”

“Are you the one who asked me to go on vacation for about a week?”

Hoyoung, who was listening to what Jinchan was trying to say, stopped laughing when he heard him.

“haha. It was the senior who said that he would not go on vacation. I heard you manage your schedule well enough to not die. And the representative is a senior. If seniors want to rest, they take a break. Do you really want to take a week off?”

Hoyoung said to Lee Jinchan with a smirk.

Lee Jin-chan smiled at Ho-young’s innocent expression and said in a joking tone.

“Oh, thank you so much for thinking about it. Junior. Representatives who can only run with their bodies will work a little more and rest.”

“yes. Don’t push yourself too hard.”

Jin-chan smiled and left the office.

Left alone in the office, Hoyoung smiled as she recalled the conversation with Jinchan.

In fact, if he put his mind to it, he could have created a portal or a search engine in just a few months, just like a web browser.

However, as with all things, Hoyoung thought that maintenance and repair were more important than production.

Creating is fleeting, but maintaining is eternal.

Hoyeong, who has to handle multiple tasks at the same time and travel abroad frequently, could not pay attention to maintenance and repairs every day.

He wanted to become a company that could provide quality service even without him.

We also thought that we should set up a separate maintenance team for web browsers.

“How far do we have to develop before we can bump into each other?”

Hoyoung remembered the Myungsung Group.

No. 1 conglomerate group in South Korea’s business world in name and reality.

No individual, however brilliant, can ever stand against the group.

“For a company that big…”

However, I thought that if I grow at the current rate, there will come a moment in the not-too-distant future when I will be equal to fame.

Hoyoung wanted to hasten the moment when H&H grew to that extent as much as possible.

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“manager. This is Hoyoung. Are there any difficulties in the finishing stage?”

After Jin-chan left, Ho-young called Berners-Lee.

Recently, as the WWW and related technologies were in the final stage, Hoyoung and Berners-Lee called once a day.

– yes. It’s fine for now. Shall I fax you the closing materials?

“good. Please send.”

– If the WWW is announced and the Internet is active, you will no longer need to send faxes. The Internet and e-mail will replace fax and mail today.

“you’re right.”

Already, all internal networks of the Particle Lab were bound by LAN.

Inside the particle lab, researchers used to create internal e-mails to send and receive necessary data.

It was easy to look at Berners-Lee’s internal e-mail and relate it to a future where people all over the world were sending and receiving e-mail over the Internet.

– By the way, you haven’t forgotten the story about HTML the other day, right?

“You mean not patenting HTML?”

– yes. That’s right.

As the WWW was completed, Berners-Lee did not forget to ask Hoyoung about patenting related technologies.

In particular, he repeatedly emphasized the disclosure of HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language).

HTML is, simply put, a language for drawing web pages.

It had the function of making it possible to set elements that compose web pages, such as text, graphics, and hyperlinks.

“Do not worry. Both URL and HTTP will be free-sourced.”

– Thank you for your understanding.

“no. These are the things we promised in advance when we had a conversation at the particle lab the other day.”

Hoyoung planned to disclose all related technologies for free, even if it was not an appointment with Berners-Lee.

‘It would be rare for a person to build a website while paying patent fees for HTML.’

In the fledgling Internet, the amount of information uploaded by users and individuals was absolutely critical.

In order to induce as many people as possible to create Internet websites by making HTML available for free, it was necessary to release it for free, especially in relation to HTML.

– Then check the data we send, and if you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. I will definitely answer the phone even in the middle of the night, so please feel free to contact me.

“All right. However, since the team leader is so meticulous about the work, I don’t have to worry too much.”

Hoyoung exchanged a few more nice words with Berners-Lee before hanging up.

I had a good feeling.

Ho-young thought that the day when the wind of the Internet he launched would become a hurricane with tremendous destructive power was not far off.

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Lee Jin-chan overhauled the organizational structure of H&H, which had grown considerably in size.

Now, it is largely divided into the administration and development departments, and the administration is in charge of various tasks such as HR, business management, and finance.

The development department is divided into four departments: word processor development department, game development department, operating system development department, and the newly established portal site development department.

The portal site department, which was newly established by recruiting a large number of people, had some noise at first.

I was very confused at first because there was no way anyone had ever created a website, but Hoyoung taught me how to use the HTML language and web browser enough for about a month, so at this point, after about a month, each one is quite the job of one person. was doing

and one day

past 10:00 at night.

Hoyoung was sitting where several electronic display boards were displaying numbers in a mess.

“Could you bring me some water, sir?”

“Ah, please. Manager.”

Hoyoung, who asked for water from Miru, had an unusually nervous expression.

The place where Hoyoung was sitting was a stock exchange in Yeouido.

The reason Hoyoung is sitting on the stock exchange at this late hour is because today is finally the day Dell Computer is listed on NASDAQ.

“Do you have about 30 minutes left?”

Nasdaq’s opening hours are originally from 11:30 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Korean time.

However, it was summer time now, so 10:30 p.m. was the opening time.

“I can’t wait to see how much the rise will be on the first day.”

Unlike the KOSPI, the Nasdaq does not have an upper or lower limit.

So, if a company that is listed for the first time is a promising company, it often increases by tens or hundreds of percent more than the listed price.

So, on Wall Street, there were many people who were aiming for a so-called short hit for listing, which is to select promising companies among listed companies, purchase as much as possible at the same time as listing, and sell them just before closing that day.

“Whoops… But it won’t be easy with a Dell computer.”

It was decided to go public, but it was obvious that there would not be much of it on the market right away.

Most of the shares are held by Dell and Hoyoung, and they did not have the slightest desire to sell the shares right away.

“The director is here.”

“thank you.”

The moment Miru accepted the water.

With the sound of the clock ticking, it was 10:30.

Hoyeong stared at the electronic display board.

In the current stock exchanges, which do not have the Internet, most of the NASDAQ-related data was in the form of obtaining information from the US stock exchange via fax and displaying the information again on the electronic display board.

So, if it took a long time on the Korean exchange, there was a delay of 20 minutes.

“Sir, it’s 10:30, but the display is not showing.”

“Let’s wait a minute. It will be soon.”

Hoyeong felt nervous as well, but she didn’t show it on the outside.

and after a while

“The director has arrived! There is a Dell computer.”

Looking in the direction Miru was pointing, I saw the words Dell Computer written on the signboard.

The listing price is a whopping $1.

A smile formed on Hoyoung’s lips.

It was a huge improvement compared to when I was listed for only 30 cents in my previous life.