Time had already entered summer, and even the common folk of Silicon Valley felt a different atmosphere surrounding them.
The young people coming out of the sleek office buildings were all discussing computer or network-related topics with great excitement and enthusiasm.
Especially after the National Science Foundation officially announced that it would no longer regulate and supervise the NSFnet, this atmosphere reached its peak.
Silicon Valley, sensing the impending transformation, almost overnight saw the establishment of dozens of internet companies.
Among these companies, search engines were the most numerous, with Yahoo's presence making search services popular worldwide.
In fact, the trend had already taken shape at the beginning of the year when Steve Kirsch founded the Infoseek search engine in Sunnyvale City in February.
It was the first to propose the advertising models of "pay-per-impression" and "pay-per-click", though it was Yahoo that first applied these models.
