Rebirth: I Want to Surf

Before Yao Yuan was overwhelmed by the junior high school students full of resentment, Yao Xiaobo arrived in time, he was called to attend the appointment.

elder brother!

Well, here we come.

What's the matter with me?

It's hard to say here, find a place to eat first.

Yao Yuan paid the bill, took Yao Xiaobo out of the Internet cafe, and walked towards the commercial street.

Yao Xiaobo's expression was unnatural, because yesterday he was suddenly found out that he had a small treasury, and today he was called over for no reason, and felt guilty.

The commercial street is not far away, there are no later buildings, only a few clothing cities, tall and short shops are overcrowded, every day gets tighter and looser, when it’s tight, only pedestrians are allowed and cars are not allowed to enter, and they are fined if they look at it, and when it’s loose, it’s casual Enter.

Yao Yuan found a small noodle restaurant and ordered two bowls of stretched noodles, a total of four yuan. This will still be purely hand-stretched, a big bowl, add some meat sauce and coriander, it is cheap and affordable.

Yao Xiaobo had just picked a chopstick when he heard the other party ask: How much money have you saved?

puff!

He choked on a mouthful of noodles, but he didn't want to admit it, but he couldn't deny it, so he could only ask weakly, How do you know I made some money?

Because I was born again, brother!

But Yao Yuan couldn't tell, so he sneered at him, laughing until Yao Xiaobo was furious, and said weakly: I saved up a little for installing and repairing computers for others.

Huh? Didn't you learn programming, why do you still do the job of licking dogs?

What is dog licking?

An animal that didn't die well, you go on.

I also want to take on projects, but our school can't do it. We don't come to us for big projects. They come for small jobs and have little money... Actually, I don't save much. I still have expenses.

Yao Xiaobo bowed his head, the emotions that came up were rather complicated.

Yao Yuan understood.

Yao Xiaobo's living expenses are only 200 yuan per month. How can I say that I can live with 200 yuan, and I can live with 2000 yuan, but in the university environment, children from poor families really have low self-esteem.

It is normal for young people in their twenties to like to eat, drink, sing K, and buy clothes. On the one hand, Yao Xiaobo wants to meet this need, but on the other hand, he feels guilty for not subsidizing his family.

Don't take it to heart, you are still in school, there is nothing wrong with you wanting to have the same life as others.

Old uncles and aunts have no culture, they don't know how happy you are to go to college, and your admission to college is already the first step in changing your destiny. If you can continue to work hard after graduation, find a good job, settle down in the city, and give your children a good education in the future, then the fate of your family will change.

The countryside is suffering, there are not many people who can get rid of it, you are already on the right path, it’s okay to have fun halfway, just keep going...

Later generations are clamoring for rural construction, and I love my hometown at every turn. That's because the city can't move, so I ran to the countryside. When urban agglomerations are developing rapidly, have you seen anyone who loves their hometown?

To put it bluntly, the countryside is always full of the bottom line.

But now it is 2001, the countryside is really poor and miserable, completely two concepts.

...

Yao Xiaobo was in a daze, it was the first time he heard someone explain his college experience from this angle. All of a sudden, he still has a bit of admiration for his elder brother. Is it so profound? !

In the next second, the fellow asked again: How much have you saved?

Three or four thousand dollars.

I have more than one thousand, and the living expenses are gradually saved. My one thousand plus your three or four thousand is enough. That's it, I want to start a business project, and I need some start-up capital. You give me the money, I run it, you do the technology.

If you are worried, let's set a time, just the Spring Festival. By the Spring Festival, if you earn our dividends, if you don't, I will definitely return the principal to you.

Let me tell you, you are my younger brother so I take you with you, no one else can ask for it...

Yao Xiaobo was shocked! ! !

Yao Xiaobo looked at this shameless man, he turned his money into his with just a word of mouth!

elder brother!

Okay, that's it.

no!

Let's talk about the specifics slowly.

No, I, I, I...

Snapped!

Yao Yuan took out two crumpled pieces of paper from his pocket and slapped them on the table, saying: I wrote something, it's all dry stuff, it will help you understand what we are going to do as quickly as possible, take it back and digest it.

In fact, this time is not right. We will start school soon. Fortunately, most of these things are operated online and can be done.

...

Yao Xiaobo refused, but he subconsciously glanced at the most eye-catching big characters circled in red pen on the paper:

SMS alliance, passion to make friends!

Hiss!

Yao Xiaobo took a deep breath: Brother, are you pornographic?

Get out!

Does passion have to be yellow? Do friends have to have a supernatural relationship? When you see short sleeves, you think of white arms, and when you see white arms, you think of being naked. You have shown the bad nature of Chinese people to the fullest!

Yao Yuan was upright and filled with righteous indignation: I despise you!

………………

In other words, the Internet can be roughly divided into four stages:

The first stage is from the mid-to-late 1990s until the bubble burst. The Internet shocked the world when it first came out. 100% of the emerging industries, a golden mountain, are all playing with high concepts.

Countless capitals pour in, waving banknotes to enter the circle, you can put forward a concept at will, get a prototype of the product, you can get a large amount of financing, and go public in the shortest time to make money.

The United States is the base camp, and almost all ideas and products spread from the United States to the whole world.

For example, the three major domestic portals are targeting Yahoo, Baidu is targeting Google, Dangdang is targeting Amazon, and QQ is targeting ICQ—ICQ was developed by Israelis and was later acquired by an American company.

Due to the strong support of capital, the Internet has basically encountered no entrepreneurial problems. The model is:

Propose concept → develop product → venture capital support → initial drainage → large capital financing → burn money to expand → burn money to expand → burn money to expand.

And so it is until now.

The second stage is from the bursting of the bubble to the financing recovery in 2003.

The bubble burst period was from the beginning of 2000 to October 2002. The world's market value evaporated 5 trillion US dollars, and countless companies went bankrupt.

Sina's share price fell to 1.06 US dollars, Sohu fell to 60 cents, NetEase almost delisted, Xiao Ma wanted to sell QQ for 1 million.

Internet products have two core issues: traffic and monetization.

Stocks collapsed, capital was no longer invested, and the website solved the first problem. It was sitting on tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of traffic, but didn't know how to cash it out. It could only charge a meager amount of advertising fees and was losing money every day.

The third stage, from 2003 to the emergence of smart phones.

After the end of the cold winter, the Internet industry recovered rapidly, and capital once again came waving money.

At this stage, the hardware, network speed, and payment conditions have all been greatly improved, and a new generation of products has been born one after another, such as video websites, such as group buying.

The fourth stage is the emergence of smart machines.

Without further ado, let's go back to the second stage.

Now it is the cold winter of the Internet, and not knowing how to realize it is the most troublesome thing for all Internet companies.

However, in the end, the three major domestic portals survived, and QQ also survived, not only survived, but also realized profits before the end of the cold winter.

Why?

Because they have a good father: China Mobile!

(Thanks to Who's, Huabi, Cat, 8616's cuteness...)