With the end of the 1997 spring new product launch conference, the afternoon of the same day, and discussions on a series of new products from Tinker are overwhelming on the Internet, TV, and paper media and other platforms about the launch conference.

Especially online platforms.

Relying on the powerful advantages of the Westeros system in the field of new technology, within just a few hours of the press conference, a large number of content about Tinkobaier's new product launches appeared on platforms such as Igret Portal, Facebook social network, Instagram image sharing, YouTube video websites, etc.

Among them, the YouTube platform's professional or non-professional review videos on the new generation of iCam, iPlayer, iRec and iWorld and the most popular iMac personal computers have roughly estimated total playback volumes exceed 600 million in just five hours after the press conference.

On the Facebook platform, topics related to the major price cuts of iCam and iPlayer, Tincobaier's full series of standard environmentally friendly lithium batteries, iMac computer trials, etc., all related to Tincobaier's spring new product launch conference have been on the hot list.

Not to mention the special news that the official top-up push of the Igret portal is.

As of February 1997, overseas Internet users followed North America and entered an outbreak period, causing the number of netizens around the world to reach 530 million in the latest statistics. It can be said that more than 500 million Internet users around the world, as long as they are exposed to the Internet in the near future, cannot escape the information storm bombardment of Tinkobaier's 1997 spring new product launch conference.

That night, the official Facebook account of the New York Times couldn't help but make fun of this incident, saying that this media trend saved Tinkobaier at least $1 billion in advertising fees.

Most ordinary people find it difficult to resist the influence of high-intensity advertising offensives. Therefore, at 8 o'clock on the same evening on the East Coast time of the United States, with the official website of Tinkobaier and the official flagship store of the Amazon Online Mall under Igret, the number of paid reservations for new products was opened at the same time. Although it is temporarily limited to North America, in just one minute, the number of paid reservations for the new generation of iPlayer and iCam exceeded 1 million at the same time.

What surprised everyone the most was the controversial iMac.

The industry generally prefers that users will be very cautious about this expensive new operating system PC. Since the YouTube platform has opened a large number of user review videos after the press conference, and conducted trial and analysis of all aspects of iMac-10, many consumers who were hesitant no longer need to go to physical stores to try or wait for feedback from people around them as before. Instead, they can make decisions directly after combining some review videos.

Therefore, even Tinkobaier officials did not expect that the pre-sale of iMac-10 was less than half an hour after it was opened. The statistics of the two major platforms showed that the number of bookings for this personal computer had exceeded 100,000.

Then, as of 12 a.m. on the West Coast time, it is equivalent to 7 hours before pre-sales are started. The total pre-sales volume of iMac-10 has reached 390,000 units.

Since most reservation users choose a price configuration of around $1,500 instead of the standard basic model of $1,299, it is equivalent to 7 hours, iMac personal computers have generated sales of nearly $600 million.

In 7 hours, 390,000 units were pre-sale and 600 million US dollars in sales. What is this level?

According to industry statistics, it is estimated that in 1997, global PC shipments will be around 170 million units, of which North America still accounts for about 35% of the market share, reaching 60 million units.

It is equivalent to the average sales of 1.15 million units per week.

A week before the Tinkobaier press conference, the sales of 1.17 million PCs in North America were basically in line with industry forecasts.

Now, even considering the users' desire to try their best due to the launch of new products, iMac-10 has sold 390,000 units in just 7 hours, which is equivalent to directly robbing more than 30% of the North American PC market share in a single week. Of course, this calculation is not scientific, but it shows something very intuitively. Tingbeyer's iMac is definitely not without threat to the Windows operating system that has almost monopolized the PC market.

Microsoft can no longer calm down at the news that it quickly launched on major media on Sunday.

Faced with public pressure, Damen students chose to be interviewed by reporters in their luxury house on the bank of Lake Messe, Seattle. They chose to be interviewed in their private luxury house, on the one hand because they were off on Sunday, and on the other hand, there was obviously a consideration that Damen students wanted to show a stable attitude.

Unfortunately, in the face of various sharp questions from reporters, students from the main door were absolutely not good at their actual personality and attacked iMac on a large scale, saying that the development of the operating system was not made by children, and it was definitely not possible to complete it in a short period of time. At the same time, they emphasized that Microsoft has 19,000 employees? The iMac R&D team has less than 1,000 people.

Finally, the classmate from Damen brought several media reporters to a living room in his luxury house and showed everyone a Windows computer with a red case shell that was obviously prepared in advance. He said with a sarcasm that he could make the computer beautiful by himself, but this was not an innovation.

The relevant interviews were launched on major platforms that afternoon.

Then, go quickly.

Especially a video on YouTube, which obviously went through some spoof editing. Although it was only more than two minutes, through some repeated shots, some images of criticizing the iMac criticized by the students in the gate magically achieved a rather weird comedy effect.

Although the simple people of this era do not know what "ghost animals" are, some emotions are always the same.

So, the video on YouTube quickly became popular and attracted one-sided ridicule.

The most popular comment below the related video undoubtedly reflects the voice of most people: he looks like an anxious monkey!

Although the student from the gate was furious and directly called Simon to Simon after the boss spoke in person, the video was deleted by YouTube, in just a few hours, the cumulative number of views exceeded 20 million, and the impact spread quickly. Many people uploaded the original video after YouTube deleted the original video, and various related animations were quickly circulated. The anxious monkey is destined to be a dark history that students from the gate cannot get rid of.

During this lively event, the weekend in late March finally passed.

Time is coming on March 24.

A new week.

Days of the Oscars.

New York.

In the bustling Manhattan, many people start a new day as usual.

However, this is destined to be an extraordinary day.

The start of the stock market in the new week is still exciting. The enthusiastic response caused by Tinkobaier's previous press conference on Saturday will inevitably be transmitted to the stock market, which is completely conceivable.

Therefore, the stock market opened in the morning, with Tinkobaier's stock price rising sharply, the Nasdaq Index also successfully broke through the high of 7,000 points. After half an hour of opening, the Nasdaq Index had reached 7,045 points.

At the same time, Westeros concept stocks have hit new highs one after another.

Half an hour to open.

Tinkobaier led the gains, with the stock price rising by 4.7%, and the market value reached US$417.9 billion.

As the leader, Igrit also rose 1.6%, with a market value of US$923.3 billion, and a trillion market value is becoming increasingly popular.

And then.

Cisco, with a market value of 0.9%, with a market value of US$653.5 billion.

American Online, with a market value of 2.1%, with a market value of US$386.7 billion.

Daenerys Entertainment, which is next door to the New York Stock Exchange, rose 0.6%, with a market value of US$569.1 billion.

Nokia, with a market value of 1.7%, with a market value of US$218.6 billion.

Verizon, up 1.3%, with a market value of US$171.9 billion.

In addition, Microsoft, which inevitably suffered a shock, was a heavily held company in the Westeros system. Its stock price fell 3.9% in half an hour after opening, and its market value was still as high as US$282.1 billion.

Intel, up 0.3%, with a market value of US$236.3 billion.

Oracle, with a market value of 1.5%, with a market value of US$79.3 billion.

SUN, up 0.8%, with a market value of US$116.3 billion.

...

...

Then, everything is frozen!

Lawrence Fink, who held a weekly executive meeting with several executives, had just walked out of the office with several executives, at the Cersei Capital headquarters in the Rockefeller Center, and one of his assistants hurriedly came up and quickly revealed something.

Just now, just after 10 o'clock in the morning, the securities trading department suddenly discovered that there were a large number of Microsoft stock selling orders on the market, with an amount of more than US$300 million.

Before he finished speaking, another leader of the securities trading department rushed forward again, and the muttering from afar came from a long way: "Crash, collapse..."

When Lawrence Fink brought several executives to a computer showing the stock market, it was less than 10:05, and Microsoft's stock price fell by 12%, and the cumulative stock sell orders quickly accumulated, exceeding US$2 billion.

Affected by the plummeting Microsoft's stock price, the stock prices of Windows system PC manufacturers such as HP, Compaq, Dell, and IBM fell across the board, which in turn affected the overall turn of the Nasdaq market.

If later generations in this time and space were sorted out the history of the Internet industry, they probably wouldn't bypass this day.

March 24, 1997.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, because of the huge response of Tinkobaier's spring new product launch conference on Saturday, there was a good start to the new week of technology stock sectors. With the sudden appearance of a large number of Microsoft stock orders in the market, the rapid-fire Nasdaq index finally burst and collapsed after breaking through the 7,000-point high.

All of this seems accidental, but almost inevitable.

Compared with the mere 300 points in 1990 and the highest point in 7045 in 1997, the Nasdaq Index has grown by 23 times in seven years.

Even if the booming development of the new technology industry has opened up a completely new era, it is impossible for a stock index increase of 23 times in seven years to be a normal thing.

However, the new technology bubble that many people had repeatedly alerted the public in 1995 or even earlier miraculously rushed to 1997, reaching a high of 7390 points that many bystanders who do not understand financial stocks are somewhat incredible. This is not just a miracle, but even a fantasy.

Fantastic bubbles are bubbles after all.

No bubble can escape the destiny of shattering.

Therefore, the plummeting of Microsoft's stock price is just an accidental opportunity. When it happens by chance, it is inevitable in the hearts of many people. Therefore, everyone has a thought in a harmonious way.

IT'S THE TIME NOW!

Los Angeles.

Simon received the news temporarily at the breakfast table in Dumei Point Manor. While feeling a little emotional, he felt a little strange.

Or Microsoft.

The collapse of Nasdaq once involved Microsoft, but this time, it was still.

Unfortunately, things are not human.

Janet was quite regretful: "It's $923.3 billion, it's only less than 80 billion to break the $1000 billion mark, which is a pity."

This is naturally talking about Igret.

Before this, even Simon himself thought that the market value of Igrit might exceed $100 billion, and he also judged that this might be another potential opportunity for Nasdaq to turn, but unfortunately it was finally frozen at $923.3 billion, a difference of $76.7 billion from the trillion threshold, with a stock price increase of about 8 points.

However, it doesn't matter.

"It doesn't matter if there is no breakthrough this time, it's just a matter of time," Simon thought to Janet beside him, saying: "Even if the bubble bursts, the development trend of the information industry will not be reversed. In the next few years, Igret, whom I plan to split, may fission into several trillion-dollar market value giants. And Tinkobaier also has trillion-dollar potential. Speaking of which, it may be impossible for Tinkobaier to overtake Igret's market value in the next few years."

Jennifer opposite him looked up and said, "Tinkobaier, it shouldn't be easy?"

Even though the response of the new product launch event in the spring last Saturday was very enthusiastic, many people subconsciously still feel that Tinkobaier, as an electronic product company, is much worse than Internet companies such as Igret in terms of style and development prospects.

Of course, Simon couldn't provide evidence that Tinkobaier would go all the way.

However, the market feedback from iMac has made him understand that Tincobaier has already established his market position at Apple's peak. Next, as long as everything is done according to the plan finalized by Simon, Tincobaier's market value exceeds one trillion yuan or even two trillion yuan, it is only a matter of time.

After breakfast, Simon rushed to Daenerys Cinema, and almost everyone he met today was discussing the Nasdaq's turn.

Simon still followed the steps.

The first thing that happened after arriving at the company was about Tinkobaier. When Simon heard the news of the pre-sale of iMac-10 on the weekend, he accidentally thought of something.

Tinkobaier has already opened his own brand store.

This is naturally still inspired by the Apple Store.

When Tincobaier's first iCam was successful, Simon had this idea. Unfortunately, Tincobaier's product line was not rich enough in the following years, and it was far from the time to open a large physical brand store.

Now, iCam, iPlayer, iRec and other products are the main products, and iMac is the core. In addition, iVid, iDisk and other peripherals, Tinkobaid's product line is already quite rich.

Since she thought that Simon spent Sunday with her family yesterday, she casually wrote down the planning of the Tincobaier store. As soon as she arrived at the company in the morning, she asked Girl A to hand over the plan to San Francisco.

On the other hand, due to the three-hour time difference on the east and west coasts, the North American stock market closed at 1:00 pm in Los Angeles. The Nasdaq Index was stimulated by the plunge in Windows concept stocks led by Microsoft, and finally fell 7.9% in a single day and finally closed at 6403 points, which fell more than 600 points compared to the high of 7045 points at around 10 am.

The Nasdaq market at a high of 7045 points has a total market value of US$9.3 trillion.

The decline of more than 600 points per day caused the total market value of the entire Nasdaq to evaporate by US$730 billion in one day.
Chapter completed!