The God of Coding, Becoming an IT Conglomerate

14. project chronos

As a result, Hangeul 1.0 sold like a fire upon its release.

Since the number of companies using PCs for work, mainly large corporations, has gradually increased, the marketing campaign centered on companies in addition to the individual sales sold at Sewoon Shopping Mall had a great effect.

Naturally, computers at this time were not localized in Korean, and the only word processor that could be used was Word.

At that time, Word could not properly implement Hangeul, so letters were often broken, and in severe cases, serious errors occurred and the program was often terminated.

At that timing, Hangeul 1.0, which supports 100% of Hangeul and has no minor errors, has accurately dug into the niche market.

The computer research club members finally got out of the small club room and set up a new office.

Of course, since most of the employees are still in the school dormitory or living in a boarding house near the school, a new office/workroom was found in Sillim-dong.

“Come on, get out of the way. Go to the desk.”

“Senior watch your feet!”

When the office was filled with furniture and computers, it looked like a company.

The club members, or now Hangeul and People members, all moved out and sat down on a newspaper in a wide corner and ordered jajangmyeon and sweet and sour pork.

Normally, none of them enjoyed drinking, but today was a special day, so they bought soju and served it with an accompaniment.

“But why did you ask to find an office this big?”

Lee Jin-chan said while pouring a glass of soju for Ho-yeong.

“We can’t do it until the end with just the five of us, right? We need to continue to develop Hangeul, and we will need formidable manpower for the next-generation operating system to be developed in the future.”

Gaia OS took over 10 years to create.

Of course, it started from the ground, and Hoyoung made it alone, so it took such an enormous amount of time.

In particular, in the 2010s, when production began, operating systems widely used by people around the world, such as Windows, Android, and IOS, were established, and more time was needed to surpass those operating systems.

Now, production was expected to be even easier because of the know-how naturally acquired while producing the Gaia OS and various ideas that were acquired through the use of future operating systems.

However, there is no way to physically reduce the absolute time to write codes by tapping the keyboard.

An operating system was never composed of thousands or tens of thousands of lines of code.

In the case of Windows that everyone is familiar with, the XP version alone consists of more than 40 million lines of code.

The operating system that Hoyoung is aiming to build by next year will also consist of at least 10 million lines of code.

“With our company’s current situation, even if we receive a public loan, it is unlikely that a person with skills will apply. But how are you going to recruit people?”

“I have no doubt that our company will make great progress in a short period of time.”

Hoyoung’s confident answer drew everyone’s attention to Hoyoung.

Kim Jin-taek said while pouring a glass of alcohol.

“You are always confident. I’m honestly envious. Your ability and your attitude.”

“no. I just do the best I can.”

“Actually, I thought I was the best until I met you.”

Hoyeong looked at Kim Jintaek’s face as he spoke.

A slightly intoxicated face.

“But that wasn’t the case. Looking at you up close, I thought that there must be many people in our country who are better than me.”

Hoyoung filled the empty glass of soju with a glass of soju, and Jintaek Kim immediately poured another glass into it.

For a moment, I wondered if I was feeling inferior to myself.

Ho-yeong was a little nervous because sometimes inferiority gave birth to monsters and killed the talent of a genius.

“senior···.”

“And when I thought about it one more time, this thought came to me. How many incredible people are there in the world?”

Contrary to Hoyoung’s concerns, Kim Jin-taek’s eyes were burning.

Those eyes were not inferiority, but triumphant.

“Ho Young-ah. As you said, we will grow rapidly. And the operating system we will create. With that operating system, I think it’s worth fighting the world for.”

In addition to Kim Jin-taek, the other three were nodding their heads and shining their eyes.

Hoyoung admired inwardly.

Although they have been together for several months already, these seniors always showed a new side of themselves.

‘As expected, they are the people who led the first generation of Korea’s IT industry.’

It was the first time Hoyoung felt like this.

In my previous life, I only worked with Jinhwan Jeong, and I never thought of working with anyone.

Unlike his previous life, when he was always alone, this feeling of being with a person of the same mind was a pleasure of a quality that was difficult to put into words.

“By the way, shouldn’t we also decide on a name for our new operating system?”

“okay. Shouldn’t it have a name like Microsoft’s DOS, Apple’s Macintosh system, Unix, etc.?”

It was natural for seniors to question.

It won’t be called ‘next-generation operating system’ forever.

“I have a name in mind.”

“What?”

“As you said, this operating system is aiming for the global market beyond Korea. So, I thought of it as a name familiar to Westerners.”

“So what?”

“Cronus.”

“Kronos? Is that Kronos from Greek and Roman mythology?”

“yes. you’re right.”

The seniors repeated it several times, saying Cronos, Cronos.

The reason why Hoyoung chose the name of this operating system as Chronos was simple.

This is because this operating system came from Gaia.

In addition, he was also a god who sat in the rulership of the universe before the Olympus gods, including Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, were born.

“great. It’s cool and has a good tone.”

“Right. It sticks to your mouth.”

“good. Project Kronos. Your name sounds cool, right?”

Woo Hyung-jin said while filling Lee Jin-chan’s drinking glass, who was looking back at everyone with a happy expression.

“older brother. no, sir Please say something on this commemorative day.”

“ruler. Then everyone fills up their glasses. Today is the first day that we evolved from a computer research club into a company called Hangeul and People. Everyone worked hard until the release of Hangul 1.0, and let’s work harder to do Project Chronos in the future. let us eat the world For the world!”

“for!”

Five glasses of wine! crashed with a sound.

They had been running without a break for several months until now.

Today is just one day of rest, but that break made even the bitter soju sweet.

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When I started Project Chronos, I was very busy.

Half of the day was spent making Kronos, and the other half was busy doing other tasks.

Lee Jin-chan established a corporation as Lee Jin-chan, promoted Hangeul 1.0 using the investment money from Gaia Investments, and established marketing strategies, gradually showing the appearance of a businessman.

Kim Jin-taek also came up with the idea that it would be nice if the next version of Hangeul included typing practice and functions, and was in charge of that task.

And for a month after the project started, the members of Hangeul and People did their best to fulfill their duties.

Exactly one month since I started working.

Hoyoung called everyone together and held a meeting.

“Senior Jin-chan. How is the reprint of Hangeul 1.0 going?”

“The recruitment of the factory is over now, and the payment has been made. There will be enough stock in two weeks.”

In the meantime, Hangeul 1.0 was even more successful.

can i sell all of this? 500 copies of the first edition, produced with suspicion, had already been sold for a long time, and 2,000 copies were in the process of being reprinted.

“Did you complete the Korean typing practice algorithm?”

“Then, the algorithm has already been laid out, and coding has begun.”

Kim Jin-taek answered confidently.

One month after Hangeul 1.0 was released, version 1.5 was already being produced by adding typing practice and plotter file printing.

Maintenance of Hangeul 1.0 and development of the next version, as well as the Kronos project.

And marketing, sales management.

Despite the fact that it was a difficult task for five people to do, the project was proceeding smoothly according to plan.

“Then, does anyone have any problems with the Chronos project?”

No one answered Hoyoung’s question.

In this case, no answer was the best response.

“good. Then, please proceed as you normally would.”

Within a month, one person was added.

After completing all the formalities in the United States, Miru came over.

Hoyoung introduced to his seniors that he was a person from Gaia Investment.

At first, the seniors grumbled, asking if they had sent a guard, but within a week of living together, they became friendly with Hoyeong’s seniors with their unique affinity.

In addition, when Hoyeong was coding, Miru, who was bored waiting for Hoyeong in the office, took care of various chores and helped her work.

“Then, please continue to take good care of me while I am gone.”

The reason why Hoyoung called all the team members together was simple.

It was also because I was preparing to go abroad.

“It could take more than ten days this time. And you know you can’t stay up all night like the last time I went to America, right?”

“At that time, it was because the end was really in sight.”

“Anyway, I’ll be back.”

“okay. Don’t overdo it, think about your body and go.”

Receiving the send-off of seniors, Hoyoung headed to Gimpo Airport.

Of course, Miru was also there.

“But why are you going to France?”

“To be precise, we are not going to France.”

“sure? Are our plane tickets to Paris, France?”

As Miru said, the ticket they had was to Paris, France.

“To be precise, we are going to a place located between the borders of France and Switzerland.”

Hoyoung’s exact destination was the European Particle Physics Laboratory between Switzerland and France.

If I could go to Switzerland or Lyon, it would have been much closer, but unfortunately, there was no direct flight from Gimpo Airport to that direction at this time.

He had no choice but to leave for the nearest Paris.

“Who are you planning to go and meet this time? Do you speak French too?”

“No, I don’t speak French either.”

“So, are you going to hire a local interpreter?”

“no. You don’t even have to.”

“Then how…?”

Hoyeong laughed at Miru’s reaction and said.

“The person I am meeting is an Englishman.”

“ah···.”

Since Miru went to France, she naturally thought she would meet a Frenchman.

If you are British, your accent and some of the vocabulary you use are different from those of the United States, but you can communicate well enough.

“The person I want to meet is Tim Berners-Lee. I am a software engineer at the European Particle Physics Laboratory.”

Miru had no idea who the Tim Berners-Lee that Hoyoung had been talking about was.

However, Miru’s reaction was natural.

This is because Tim Berners-Lee hadn’t achieved such great results yet, and most people didn’t know about it because he hadn’t done any outside activities.

However, Hoyoung knew how important this person was in IT history, no, in human affairs.

Tim Berners-Lee. He was the first to propose the World Wide Web (WWW) and would be called the creator of the World Wide Web.