Wang Taoxin hurriedly said, "Is it expensive for 6 yuan? If you come two weeks earlier, it will cost at least 8 yuan per hour."

"I think it's expensive anyway!"

Although Lin Weidong also knew that computers at present are still a high-consumption product for most Chinese people, he still felt that the cost of surfing the Internet is a bit expensive now.

However, with the popularity of computers in China and the increasing competition among Internet cafes, the Internet fee today is much cheaper than it was a few years ago.

As early as May 1996, the first Internet cafe in Chinese history appeared in the Magic City, named "Wigette", and the Internet price reached 40 yuan per hour - this was a sky-high price at that time.

You know, the national average salary was only about 500 yuan, and pork was only 3 yuan per kilogram.

It is worth mentioning that "Internet cafes" were not called Internet cafes at the earliest, but computer rooms, which can play local games and leisure.

In November 1996, the Ximen Shihua Online Cafe in Yanjing's first-class building opened, becoming the first online coffee house in China.

Subsequently, the new term "Internet cafe" was quickly known and imitated by countless IT operators.

Including this "Red Ant Internet Cafe", more than ten Internet cafes have been opened in the entire Mei'an city in 1999.

Lin Weidong thought for a while, but he took out his wallet from his pocket, took out a 5 yuan and a 1 yuan RMB from it, and said to Wang Taoxin: "Just go to one clock."

"Okay." Wang Taoxin nodded, took the money from Lin Weidong, and then said: "Then we both have a clock."

"Boss, help me drive two machines." Wang Taoxin came to the boss and found that the chubby boss was calculating the time on the small notebook.

The boss looked up at Lin Weidong and Wang Taoxin and asked, "How long will it take?"

"One hour." Lin Weidong and Wang Taoxin answered in unison.

"Single-player, or online?"

“On the Internet.”

"Okay." The boss nodded, then stretched out his chubby fingers and swept down the notebook all the way, saying, "Phone No. 7 and 16 can be used."

Wang Taoxin looked puzzled and asked again: "Boss, are there two machines connected together? We are my buddies and want to sit together."

The boss shook his head and said coldly: "You two are not lovers, you have to be kissed together when playing on a computer?"

Before Wang Taoxin could speak again, the boss urged: "You have to go there quickly, otherwise you will be out of luck later."

Although Wang Taoxin wanted to sit with Lin Weidong, due to conditions, she could only accept the boss's arrangement.

Lin Weidong didn't think there was any problem. As the boss said, he and Wang Taoxin were not in love, nor were they teaming up to play games, so why did he have to sit together?

Soon, Lin Weidong and Wang Taoxin paid the money and sat in front of the computer screen.

People on both sides were playing stand-alone games. Lin Weidong looked at the old antique 1 computer in front of him and couldn't help but reach out and start operating.

However, the computer's internet speed is very slow, and the mouse in your hand clicks when scrolling, and the sensitivity is very poor. There are several keys on the keyboard, and it feels like you can't pop up if you press it.

Later, Lin Weidong saw an oicq software on his computer desktop. A small penguin with a slender figure stretched out its wings. It is the version of oicq99a, about 230k, and only the size of one picture.

The functions of this version are extremely limited, mainly to publish Chinese web pagers, public chat rooms, and transfer files.

At this moment, Wang Taoxin ran over from her seat and saw Lin Weidong sitting in front of the computer in a daze. She thought he didn't know how to play with the computer, so she recommended herself: "You haven't touched the computer before, have you? I'll teach you if it's okay."

"I'll help you register an OICQ account first."

In front of Lin Weidong, the "rookie", Wang Taoxin felt like an Internet veteran, very accomplished.

However, Lin Weidong felt that Wang Taoxin was in trouble and waved his hand and said, "No, I'll do it myself, you can play with you."

As he said that, Lin Weidong began to type in the logo and keyboard, and began to register an Oicq account in front of Wang Taoxin.

Seeing Lin Weidong's familiarity with the operation, Wang Taoxin shrank his hand away in disappointment and walked back to his seat.

Lin Weidong was lucky enough to apply for a 5-digit account for the first time; 16*81, and then he took a casual online name: Journey.

In order to prevent the loss of the account, Lin Weidong also borrowed a pen from his boss and wrote the 5-digit account in his notebook so that he would not forget it in two days.

According to Lin Weidong's understanding, the shortest Oicq is 5-digit number, so 5-digit accounts are extremely precious. However, the accounts applied for these days are basically 5-digit numbers.

If there are more and more people using oicq and there are not enough oicq numbers, the number of digits of oicq numbers will definitely increase accordingly.

If there are 10 or 20 years, a 5-digit or 6-digit account will definitely become particularly valuable.

However, Lin Weidong did not want to make a fortune by reselling his five-digit OICQ account, because it was too far away.

Lin Weidong looked at his 16*81 account and thought to himself, who would be the owner of the account 10001? Could it be Ma Ge Ma Huateng?

Thinking of this, Lin Weidong immediately started searching for 10001. After a while, the net name: pony was displayed on the screen.

"Is Pony the English name of MCA?"

Lin Weidong thought about it and shook his head again. It seemed that it was not. He vaguely remembered that Brother Ma's English name seemed to be tony.

Maybe some people will feel strange, how could Lin Weidong know Ma Huateng’s English?

In fact, it is not uncommon to know that Ma Huateng's English name is not uncommon, Lin Weidong still remembers the English names of several celebrities, such as Cheng Long's English name is jackie    chan, and Ma Xiaoyun's English name is jack    ma...

To be ashamed, in fact, Lin Weidong only knows the English names of these three big names. It is wrong. There should be Andy's English names. Lin Weidong also has an impression that his English name seems to be andy.

So, Lin Weidong continued to search for 10002. Sure enough, the online name of this account was indeed tony.

"This tony shouldn't be wrong! It's definitely Brother Ma himself."

However, what Lin Weidong didn't know was that Ma Huateng's English name was indeed pony, not tony.

To be on the safe side, Lin Weidong sent friend applications to the two oicq accounts "10001" and "10002".

Obviously, in Lin Weidong's opinion, Ma Huateng is definitely a friend worth making.

Although Lin Weidong did not have the ambition to become an Internet tycoon and did not have the capital to acquire OICQ, he had a strong premonition in his heart that he and Tony Ma would meet one day sooner or later.

"Wei Dong, come here." Wang Taoxin, who was sitting in front of the computer No. 16, waved to him.

"What's wrong?" Lin Weidong stood up and walked over, leaned over to look at Wang Taoxin's screen.

"My chat room is very fun. Although there are not many people, the proportion of female compatriots is quite high." Wang Taoxin pointed to the screen and said proudly.

"New Century Chat Room?" Lin Weidong glanced at the name at the top of the chat room.

"Come on, I'll tell you the chat room account."

"Forget it, you can play by yourself, I'm not interested."

Lin Weidong said what he said in his heart. What he was thinking about now was how to make money, and he couldn't even be interested in the love between children.

Three minutes later, at the enthusiastic invitation of Wang Taoxin, Lin Weidong entered the chat room.

A line of words is displayed on the page of the New Century Chat Room: Welcome to the chat room "Journey".

Momotaro said: "This is my good friend, let's talk together."

Momotaro is Wang Taoxin's online name. When Lin Weidong saw it, he could only sigh silently and typed three words on the keyboard: "Hello everyone."
Chapter completed!