"On the sixth day of the first lunar month, I send you six blessings: success in career, impressive performance; success in love, holding hands with a beautiful woman; success in life, being a great person; success in friendship, accompanying noble people; success in going out, always meeting good people; success in wealth, and a salary increase.
gratifying……"
Tsk!
Yao Yuan glanced at his phone and put it back in his pocket without caring. This was so retro.
Since about 2001, New Year greeting text messages have gradually become popular, and many auspicious words and jokes have been born. Some of them are good, and everyone forwards them one after another. You worship me, I worship you, they are all the same.
Today is the sixth day of the lunar month, his last day at home, on the pretext of going back to start a business.
Many businesses were already open for business, and the streets in the northeast were also lively. He was walking around casually, and suddenly saw a video store that had just opened, and stepped in.
The hut was not big, with wooden strips nailed to the wall and pirated VCD covers on display. There were also several cabinets containing pirated TV series and music albums.
If you buy it, the cheapest price is 4 for 10 yuan.
The rent is 1 yuan per day and the deposit is 10 yuan.
Yao Yuan scanned a circle, good guys, "The Legend of Shushan", "Slimming Man and Woman", "Romantic Sakura", "Shaolin Football", "Fast and Furious", "Tomb Raider", "Shrek"...
Is this a new film or an old film?
He scratched his head and asked, "What's the latest?"
"this!"
The boss took out a few books from the drawer and said, "The goods have just arrived and haven't been put up yet. They are the most popular ones in Korea!"
Yao Yuan took a look, "My Sassy Girl".
"Can you watch the TV series? This one, and this one, they are all very good."
The boss casually took out "Meteor Garden" and "Looking for Qin", especially "Meteor Garden" and said, "You have to watch this quickly. After watching one episode, bring it back. I'll wait to rent it."
"So popular?"
"Our little place is backward, and Shencheng has long been spread. Back then, "Huan Zhuge Ge" was very popular, and "Meteor Garden" was just as popular."
"That's not necessarily true. My parents also watched "Huanzhugege", but can they watch this?"
"My Sassy Girl" and "Meteor Garden" were both released in China last year, and only this year spread to the mainland, where they quickly became a hit.
F4 has become a milestone in youth idol dramas. These four people have been eating one drama for a lifetime.
"Sassy Girl" was released in Hong Kong in February, which led to the spread of pirated discs. Hong Kong filmmakers once again used their studio talents to create an ancient version of "Sassy Girl" with lightning speed.
Starring Louis Koo and Cecilia Cheung, it was quite popular for a while.
Yao Yuan looked around and found it really uninteresting, so he finally rented a copy of "The Jade Girl's Heart Sutra" and put it in the big pocket of his down jacket to reminisce about it when he went home.
After leaving the video store and continuing to walk forward, we arrived at the Supersonic Internet Cafe.
I came quite early, and there were still a few empty seats inside. A computer was turned on, and the sounds of typing on the keyboard and mouse were endless. Students, hoodlums, and idle middle-aged people around me were shouting.
"..."
Yao Yuan pressed the keyboard with both hands, thought for a moment, and searched for a website called "Blue Sea Silver Sand" on Baidu.
Old netizens should be impressed by the blue sea and silver sand.
Founded in 1996, it is a self-operated website of Guangdong Telecom. It has its roots in Miaohong. It launched a chat room in 1998 and a text version of the online game "The Legend of Jin Yong" in 1999. It is known as the originator of domestic online games.
In 2001, it launched online diary and photo album services. In the same year, it launched voice chat rooms and video chats, as well as an original literary column "Listen to the Wind Sing".
It can be said that Bihaiyinsha was ahead of the times every step of the way. Unfortunately, it could not operate and was later closed.
What Yao Yuan is looking for is a voice chat room.
This was the first website in China to provide voice chat. The concept of "voice chat" quickly emerged, followed closely by Sina, NetEase, TOM, etc., and many other following products such as 9Liao, XiLiao, LiaoLiao and so on.
But for the same reason, they couldn't make any money, so they closed down one after another.
On the contrary, voice chat has been further developed in another track, namely online games!
As China's online game market becomes more and more popular, out of the need for team building, voice chat software such as UT, iSpeak, and YY have been released one after another.
Bihai Yinsha is very popular among netizens and is often called "Bi Chat". At this moment, Yao Yuan randomly found a chat room, clicked in, and put on his headphones.
The characteristic of a voice chat room is that only one person can speak at the same time, and others can only listen - but one-on-one private chats are possible.
This requires grabbing the authority to speak, which is commonly known as "grabbing the wheat."
For example, if the administrator shouts 1, 2, 3, netizens will click the mic button together, and then queue up to speak. The administrator can set the length of the speech time.
When a person grabs wheat, what do you think he will do?
Shy? Nervous? Chat cautiously?
So simple!
Warm greetings of course!
"Mom Cao Niao, is this all in the magic city? My cunt is so damned! I'm so fucked!"
As soon as Yao Yuan put on his earphones, there was a burst of cordial greetings. He couldn't understand them, but they were just all kinds of nonsense.
This guy scolded me for two minutes, and then he was replaced by another person, who was equally friendly: "Help me Guan Te, make me a loser, help me Xi Wuqi... I was wrong about that bitch... a plague, a dog, a dog, a poison...
"
Tsk tsk!
Yao Yuan praised how wonderful the people were and how simple they were.
He listened for half an hour, mostly cursing, and finally calmed down. Finally, a soft girl grabbed the microphone and sang a song for everyone, winning a round of applause.
He quit and went to other chat rooms, which were all very lively.
I took a look at the number of people online, and there were over 30,000!
"Awesome!"
If Yao Yuan's club had 30,000 people online at the same time, he would laugh to death.
The advantages and disadvantages of things within the system are all obvious. Bihaiyinsha has such good resources, is backed by telecommunications, and has a strong start. It has everything it wants, but it just doesn’t know how to operate it!
The technology of voice chat rooms is relatively mature at the current level, but what is lacking is ideas.
He happens to be the one with the most ideas!
"elder brother!"
After playing for a long time, Yao Xiaobo opened the door of the Internet cafe and came in, speechless: "Why do you always make appointments to meet at the Internet cafe?"
"I mainly want to go online, how did you get here?"
"My neighbor happened to be in the county, so I came on his motorcycle."
“Quite capable!”
Yao Yuan paid the bill, left the Internet cafe, looked around and said, "Let's take a walk, it's not cold either."
"oh!"
Yao Xiaobo looked at this posture and knew he had something to say, so he couldn't help but feel anxious.
The two walked along the street and came to the small square of the cinema. The door was closed and there was a sign saying "Closed."
"Is this going to be dismantled soon?"
"We will demolish it this year and build a building."
Yao Yuan looked at the old cinema, then at his younger brother, and asked, "What did you do with the fifty thousand yuan? Did you give it to your mother?"
"No, I saved it. If it's given to my mother, she can save it until I get a wife, then it's worthless."
"Hey, it's all worth it. You didn't train in vain. This fifty thousand yuan is a bonus for you. You performed well last year. But you also know the situation now. The main battlefield is in the capital. You are too far away to help.
What a busy time.
Let me tell you the truth, your technical level can only be said to be adequate, far from being a master, and the demand for technology will increase day by day in the future."
Yao Yuan paused and continued: "You will be a senior in the second half of the year and will graduate soon. What do you think?"
"I……"
Yao Xiaobo shook his head and said: "I don't have any ideas, I want to listen to your suggestions."
"My only suggestion is to improve your technical level. You can either take the postgraduate entrance examination, sign up for a class, or find a master to be your apprentice. In any case, it is to improve your level. Because you are lacking in operations and do not know how to promote, and programmers will always be popular, the more capable they are.
Stronger and more popular.
Of course, if you want to try this aspect of operations, I also support you. If you have any ideas, just tell me."
"I listen to you! In fact, I also feel a little powerless. Your needs are getting higher and higher."
Yao Xiaobo is good at this, he respects his elder brother very much, and it is Yao Yuan who has proven his strength in the past six months.
"That's good, okay, let's go have some food."
"If you don't want to eat, I don't want to eat. I have to see my partner. I have made an appointment."
Gan!
Yao Yuan rolled his eyes, but Yao Xiaobo stretched out his hand again: "Brother, borrow some money, I forgot to bring it when I went out."
"..."
Yao Yuan was speechless for three seconds, then put his hand into his pocket and took out dozens of dollars and a copy of "The Jade Girl's Heart Sutra".
"..."
The two brothers were silent for a while. Yao Xiaobo silently took the money, wiped himself away and walked away. After walking a few steps, he turned back: "Brother, you should find a partner quickly, it's easy to get sick from holding it in!"
"piss off!"
…………
The seventh day of the lunar month, Xiaocheng Railway Station.
Yao Yuan is preparing to return to Beijing.
There are still a lot of passengers at this stall, but it is better than before the Spring Festival. At least they have bought tickets. This time, the uncle did not follow because he wanted to stay for two more days.
Yuan Liping helped her son check his luggage for the last time while complaining: "I was so busy before I graduated. After I graduated, I had to stay away from home for a year. It was like working."
"I have been working for a long time. They are working on a serious website. You two have time off every winter and summer vacation. How can you understand the hard work of working as a worker?"
"Get out of here, you said you were fat and had asthma!"
After Yuan Liping packed her luggage, she told her to eat well, pay attention to the weather, and cross the road to watch the traffic.
While she was going to the toilet, Yao Yuemin pulled Yao Yuan over again and said sneakily: "Damn it, give me 10 yuan!"
"What are you doing?"
"you give me first."
"Don't you have any private money?"
"I lost even playing mahjong."
Hiss!
Yao Yuan was horrified: "Then how will you survive next month?"
"I'm thinking about buying an invitation, and I'm just going to say dinner and gifts. If I'm lucky, I can get 50 yuan from your mother's pocket."
"What about bad luck?"
"I'll buy another pack of cigarettes."
Ouch!
Yao Yuan shed a lot of sad tears. There was nothing wrong with his father. He just loved playing mahjong for 50 cents, and his calligraphy skills were excellent.
What is the relationship between the two?
Why don't you buy invitations? You can forge them yourself.
He took out 10 yuan and stuffed it into Yao Yuemin's pocket. He didn't get a penny more. Yao Yuemin put it away solemnly and patted his son on the shoulder. He was indeed a filial son!
When the time comes, I check in and enter the station, and my parents take them to the platform.
There were more than a dozen people waiting for the bus.
After a while, the train rumbled from a distance, stopped slowly, and the door opened.
"Hurry up and get in the car!"
"Hurry up and get in the car!"
Yao Yuan carried the big suitcase up, stood at the door and waved to the outside. His mother shouted: "I'm here, give me a call!"
"Be more careful over there!"
"I know, let's go back!"
The door closes, the train moves forward, and 2002 begins.