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Evening Internet: note 445 - four years on the line
| The I WAS Inspired Now I'M Sad and Tird AFTER All I've Tried for Three Years Seems Like Ninety Whym I Scared to Finish What I Started Rais. Jesus Christ Superstar I am happy about how everything happened, even what was wrong. Boris Grebenshchikov . 25 to 10 - Why do you continue Paravozov so far? - It is like a desire for a Guinness record. Why can people kiss for 50 hours in a row without looking up? To fix the fact. This is the same thing - to fix the fact. So that there is the most long -lived display. Alexander Gagin. Interview "Netoscope", 12/21/2000 |
Today, on Sunday, December 24, 2000, I am sitting in my office on the 11th floor of an apartment building in the Far North-West of Moscow, looking out the window at the snowy roofs of the surrounding buildings, I smoke a nostalgic Rothmans from a square pack with an excise Haifa customs and I think that life over the past four years could have developed in a completely different way. And in Runet, and in general on the Internet, and in Russia, and personally with me. By and large, all this is intertwined and interconnected in some way, and it is unlikely that some cunning historical Reverse Engineering will now allow us to retroactively determine the direction of causal relationships in case there were no nails in the forge. Although you can try.
It can be assumed, for example, that if the founders of the Cityine [🔗] did not dig the number of my Israeli mobile phone [🔗] in the fall of 1996, then many things would not have happened besides the "evening Internet". Through me, they would not have met Lebedev [🔗] and his then partner Demyan Kudryavtsev [🔗] , and Citilin would not be the first Russian provider to purposefully develop the influential direction, then outgrown to “Netskite [🔗] ”, which, in turn, was purchased by the Husinsky and transformed into the Gusinsky and transformed into the Gusinsky and transformed into "Memonet" [🔗] with all the ensuing consequences [🔗] .
On the other hand, if they had not invited me to conduct this display, I would not have moved to Moscow [🔗] in March 1997, would not have become part of the local network landscape [🔗] , and after a year and a half Gleb Pavlovsky [🔗] would not invite me to make Gazeta.ru [🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 By the way, it is not known who would have the address of Strana.ru [🔗] if I had not asked for the FEP [🔗] to stake it as a working name for the website created (the very one that ultimately published under the name of the newspaper.ru) ...
On the third party, if I had not moved to Moscow in March 1997, my main work would remain connected with Sharat , which I created in Jerusalem in early 1996 and headed until the very departure to Russia. You can only guess how the fate of Sharat would have developed in this case. Maybe he would live to the initial placement of shares on the NASDAQ or Tel Aviv Exchange , like some Internet companies of my Jerusalem acquaintances. Or maybe it would be absorbed by some Bezeq International , where the same Gusinsky would go later, and I would again be in his service, but in another country and in another quality. Although now you can’t say for sure whether Gusinsky would buy a portal in Israel if he had not entered the Internet business in Russia before, having bought Netskate, see above ... above ...
On the fourth side, if two years ago I hadn’t dried up for the continuous scripture of the “evening Internet”, then by the beginning of the year this review could be considered by investors who flooded the market as a profitable (due to high traffic and low cost) project for investing. It could have happened that the “evening Internet”, having received third -party financing, would have turned from my personal hobby into a closed joint -stock company or LLC, and from the author’s column to the Runet's observation portal. And today, probably, he would have experienced all those crises of financing and staff reductions that are characteristic of many content projects that have been invested at the beginning of the year without a intelligible business model. Or vice versa - by picking up advertising from computer companies and grants from all kinds of funds, he would today show an example of how he can survive and succeed in a Russian content project without looking at the vicusquence of NASDAQ if its costs are competently correlated with income ...
To God alone, how everything could have developed if any of the events that happened in Runet over the past four years would suddenly take and did not happen. My experience of observing the Russian Internet suggests that no "conservation law" is valid here - at least until, as long as the proposal in the field of content is ahead of and forms demand. What specific people did not create here in a specific set of favorable circumstances did not arise, despite the existence of successful foreign prototypes and analogues. For example , it happened that Lesha Krivenkov with his own self -canal engine named Mail.ru liked the market in early 1999 - and an entire empire that ousted from Russia and USA.net grew out of this engine. And in the catalog market, nothing similar has happened to this day, and the overseas Yahoo server Russians still visit a lot more willing than any of its Russian -speaking analogues. Therefore, I am quite ready to assume that things that have not been done over the past four years, and those opportunities that have been lost during this time reflected in the development of Runet no less than everything that was invented here, built, adapted, openly and closed for the same period.
You can, of course, be scared to worry and execute on this subject, but, on the contrary, you can see the reasons for healthy optimism here. In the end, all the things that we have not yet done so far are logical to put the work plan for the next millennium. After all, life does not end tomorrow?