Silicon Valley.
Icq Company.
Although it was already nearing 8 p.m., none of the company's employees had gone home. They were all at their posts, poised and ready.
CEO Wiesger asked in a low voice, "Goldfinger, there won't be any problems with the server equipment, right?"
"Everything's OK!"
As the company's chief technology officer, Goldfinger smiled. "The servers I leased from Cisco and HP, combined with the ones we already had, are enough to support three million people online at once without any lag."
Wiesger nodded, then turned to another person. "Wadi, are all the paid online commenters in position?"
Wadi nodded. "My blade has long been thirsting for battle!"
As Icq's chief creative officer, Zucker did not offer any opinions at the moment. He merely watched quietly from the side. At the end of the day, he was not the company's CEO, and the real power was in someone else's hands. Still, he was Icq's largest individual shareholder. The better Icq developed, the greater his profits would be.
Eight o'clock arrived right on time!
"I now announce that Icq officially goes live at 8 p.m. on November 15, 1996!"
Wiesger fiercely swung his arm through the air.
He was excited—no, everyone was exhilarated!
"Awesome! We've finally made it to this day!"
"These months of hard work won't have been in vain."
"Juno's box office has exploded, and we planted ads in the movie!"
"That's right. The more popular the movie gets, the more beneficial it'll be for our Icq."
Everyone discussed it excitedly.
With a single order, Icq officially went live.
The hired troll armies also began flooding major portal sites, BBS forums, and other forum websites with comments.
BBS Forum.
As the largest internet forum in North America—and even the world—it gathered countless enthusiasts from across the