By Hayden Ma / 3/1/2022
- What is Bilibili?
Bilibili has grown from a purely ACG (animation, comics, and games) content platform to a pan-entertainment online video community with content ranging from fashion, lifestyle, and technology to gastronomy, knowledge sharing, etc.
Inspired by similar video-sharing websites, Nico Nico Douga and AcFun, Xu Yi founded Bilibili in 2009. At the time, Xu Yi was an AcFun user and wanted to create a site better than AcFun. He spent three days creating a prototype website named Mikufans.cn as a fandom community of Hatsune Miku. As it grew, Miku fans officially launched. The domain name is mikufans.cn. The webmaster is Bi Shi (UID2). Miku fans, which literally means Hatsune Miku fans, are the predecessor of Bilibili.
The turning point from bilibili
On January 24, 2010, Mikufans officially changed its name to Bilibili.
The domain name is bilibili.us. The name Bilibili comes from the nickname of Misaka Mikoto, A character in the popular anime “A Certain Magical Index” and “A Certain Scientific Railgun”.In February 2010, Bilibili organized 40 Content Creator, We Call “UP“. They made the first Video of the Chinese New Year greeting (the predecessor of Chinese New Year Greeting), which attracted many netizens to watch and gathered considerable popularity.
Bilibili Virtual Character Born
On August 16, 2010, the voting for Bili girl closed, and the final number of votes was the same so that both 22 and 33 became Bilibili characters. 22 is the older sister, 33 is the younger sister. Produced on 16 August 2010 by the final count of the BILI image vote. (22 and 33 will be voted as virtual characters of the image of station B for the image selection of the company in Bili Bili)
- What makes the bilibili being different from the video websites?
In 2011, co-founder of Cheetah Mobile Inc Rui Chen (UID208259) joined Bilibili as an angel investor. Rui Chen is currently chairman and CEO of Bilibili.
From October 20 to December 27, 2012, Bilibili hosted the first barrage Competition. Bilibili is one of the popular places of bullet screen ( danmu) culture. In Niconico, users make various pictures with characters. At that time, Bilibili developed an advanced bullet screen and code bullet screen based on Flash player, among which code bullet screen was the most flexible and realized the interaction between bullet screen and users. Bilibili technicians gradually invented the art of barrage, which led to the birth of the first barrage competition. The significance of the existence of bullet screens is to be able to discuss interesting things with others while watching videos, to help others solve their doubts and explain the reasons in some science and technology videos, so as to help them learn knowledge and know what happened more clearly. (Bullet-screen means you can make comments inside the video, and when you send it, it will show up in the video)
From May 20, 2013, registration is open, and tourists cannot send bullets. After registration, visitors become registered members. (Tourist means Not logged in) Because most people sign in to the Bilibili on the Internet said many bad words or malicious comments and attack the video to the author, comments under the video author malicious insult and slander, so bilibili for the network violence the real-name authentication and do topics can send barrage on video and log in to a certain period of time after can also send a barrage.
On December 25, 2015, Bilibili Film was established. The first project bilibili Film participated in was a major sherlock film. On March 26, 2016, Bilibili participated in AnimeJapan 2016 with domestic animation. Bilibili became the first Chinese Internet company to enter AnimeJapan. Bilibili wants to develop its business in a wide range. In terms of film and television, it needs more film resources and animation market so that more people can choose to use bilibili. It has also been put into the public’s view since 2016.
On May 16, 2017, Bili Bili officially entered the ERA of an HTTPS connection. Users no longer have to worry about carrier DNS hijacking, binding ads, and account security. Access to bilibili.com using HTTP is now forced to jump to an HTTPS connection.
Bilibili was listed on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange on March 28, 2018.
On June 21, 2018, Bilibili launched a massive revision of the manuscript video playback page on the PC web. First, a small public test, then officially put into use. The old play page is now closed. Bilibili’s long-used PLAYER UI has been changed in favor of a youtube-like design.
In addition, Bilibili set up MIMI, a website accessible only to IP from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, to place broadcasting websites with licensed animation from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan channels. In addition to Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, Bilibili will quietly open an exclusive client for Southeast Asia at the end of 2020, mainly placing licensed animations from Southeast Asia. Thai, English, Vietnamese, Indonesian, simplified, and traditional Chinese six different CC subtitles are available. Also, the International Edition bilibili is open up too.
In 2020, Bilibili added a convenient way to search for videos by rewriting website addresses into numbers, which we call BV numbers (for example Bv1QK15925tH). If you enter this number in the search interface of station B, it will automatically enter the video interface, which can be said to be very convenient and fast. The method of use is that “BV” is written on the top of the website address and the row from numbers to letters is BV number.
References
https://ir.bilibili.com/corporate-information/company-profile/
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