The twelve-year-old Niu Ben, who was in the first year of junior high school, was haggard inside. Because he never thought of his own students. That is, the disjointed middle-aged and elderly Zhang Tong who has just returned from the other world doesn't even know what WIFI is.

"Internet, network, network, cable. Do you know how to work?" Niu Ben felt like he was communicating with a foreigner, so he almost shouted [Eight Grid Tooth Road] and smashed the keyboard.

Zhang Tong naturally understands the Internet. Huaihai is one of the earliest cities in Chinese mainland. In the ninety-nine years before the crossing, the Internet had begun to slowly become popular.

But at that time, the Internet relied on a telephone line, and if you used the telephone line to access the Internet, the home phone could not make calls for the time being. Importantly, internet access was expensive in those days.

Zhang Tong vaguely remembers that the cost of opening the Internet back then was several thousand yuan, and then the Internet fee was three or four yuan an hour, and then he could enjoy 128KB or 256KB Internet speed.

So in those days, it was a luxury to surf the Internet at home, and it was much cheaper to go to an Internet café. The Internet café fee is only 2~3 yuan per hour. You don't need to buy an expensive home computer to go to an Internet café to surf the Internet, after all, it will cost you almost 10,000 yuan to buy a set of computers in '99. It wasn't a small amount of money at the time.

So Zhang Tong understands what the Internet is, but he has not actually touched it. In '99, surfing the Internet was not a necessary skill. The use of computers and various 3C products is also not something that is popular among all young people and feels cool.

At that time, playing The King of Fighters 97 in the arcade hall and using Mary to perform a set of 37 consecutive moves was something that young people thought were particularly cool.

Or it's also cool to play The King of Fighters 99 and hit a set of five cuts of damage with K.

There are people who play with computers, but they are toys that belong to a few wealthy families, and they are far away from ordinary people. Anyway, it was very far away for Zhang Tong at that time, when his parents just used this store to run a snack bar, where could they have the money to buy a computer that was useless to them?

Although there were a small number of microcomputer classes in the school at that time, at most they taught the switch and five strokes of typing, and there was nothing else.

Therefore, Niu Ben originally thought that the easiest and fastest way to let Zhang Tong grasp the situation in this world was frustrated at the beginning. Because the problem of the network was solved, Zhang Tong discussed it with the couple who sold flowers next door, and the other party expressed his willingness to let him rub the net for a few days. However, it is best to handle the broadband service yourself as soon as possible.

But after the network problem was solved, another problem arose. Because Zhang Tong can't use the current computer at all!

"Didn't you learn to use a computer when you were in school?" Niu Ben was about to collapse.

Zhang Tong shrugged helplessly: "I was still in high school in ninety-nine years, and the conditions of middle schools in Huaihai City at that time could not be compared with now. Unless it is a key middle school, it is impossible for every school to have a computer room. EVEN IF THERE IS A COMPUTER ROOM, THE COMPUTER CONFIGURATION IS NOT NECESSARILY UP-TO-DATE, AND NOT ALL STUDENT COMPUTERS CAN INSTALL WINDOWS. Anyway, for a long time, I was in the computer class with DOS instructions. Well, it's nostalgic. I still remember a series of DOS commands that allowed me to open the game of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" installed on my computer. ”

Well, Niu Ben surrendered. He couldn't help asking: "Is the place where you used to live really Huaihai, China? How does it feel like the third world in Asia, Africa and Latin America?"

Zhang Tong shrugged: "Compared with the past, I now doubt that this place is not Huaihai, China." In '99, the Bund skyline could only see the Oriental Pearl, and now there are so many high-rise buildings, just like I felt when I watched New York in American blockbusters. ”

"There are so many cars on the road, and the streets of Huaihai City still feel very spacious in '99. And there are too many people who have cars now. At that time, there was a clothing store owner on this street, and he bought a Xiali, which made us envious. There was a hint of reminiscence in Zhang Tong's eyes.

"There are still a lot of Changhe vans running on the street. I don't even know the big jeep running on the road now. Zhang Tong pointed to an SUV parked across the street.

Niu Ben glanced at it and couldn't help but pat his forehead: "Zhang ...... Brother Zhang, that's a Land Rover, not a Jeep. ”

Zhang Tong waved his hand: "At that time, we called all cars of this shape Jeep, you don't have to worry about me." I don't know how to drive, and at that time, there was a small noodle at home to drive, even if the conditions were good. Mercedes-Benz BMW is a legendary existence, and I feel that only the rich guys in Hong Kong TV dramas can drive it. ”

"At that time, the biggest dream of many people in business was to make a lot of money and buy a Mercedes-Benz BMW or something. ”

Zhang Tong's words attracted Niu Ben's approval: "No wonder the streets are full of Mercedes-Benz and BMW now." You guys did it all in the first place!"

If you calculate it like this, the nineties happened to be when Zhang Tong's group was young. Around the age of twenty, I was attracted by a large number of Hong Kong films and foreign films, and I was very curious and even sought after about everything that appeared in them.

From Mercedes-Benz BMW to Rolex Chanel, and even simple foreign fast food. This kind of full-scale cultural invasion and commodity invasion began twenty or thirty years ago. Even though many such products did not enter the land of China at that time, they have sown seeds in the hearts of many people under the influence of film and television cultural works.

Obviously, I have never seen the actual car of Mercedes-Benz BMW, but I have already decided in my heart that this is a good car, a very good car. Because in the movie, the male protagonist drives them and can do anything.

When the people of the same decade generation as Zhang Tong gradually grew up, to the present. Many people in their thirties and forties happen to be the mainstay of this society, and they are also the most economically powerful group of people.

They began to chase the dreams of their youth, the car of their dreams, the house of their dreams, the brand of their dreams.

The roots planted twenty years ago are beginning to sprout. Until now, China has grown into the world's fastest-growing consumption of luxury goods and luxury cars.

Zhang Tong sighed: "Yes, sometimes I'm thinking." Is this still China? Is this still Huaihai? The world has changed so fast, why do I not know anything in a blink of an eye? Why has the world become so developed all of a sudden? It's like New York in a movie. ”

"I went to the vegetable market the day before yesterday and saw someone buying a chicken rack (that is, the chicken has been shaved relatively clean, with only a small amount of meat and a lot of bones left), and I thought I was buying it to eat at home. As a result, others said that they bought it back and fed it to the dogs. Zhang Tong felt incredible.

"When I was a kid, the spicy fried chicken rack was a big meat dish. Is it reduced to feeding dogs now? It seems that everything is sold in the 24-hour convenience store. There are all kinds of snacks, many foreign snacks that I can't name. Seaweed can also be eaten as a snack, and Ferrero chocolate seems to be readily available. In the past, we would only go to a big supermarket or go to a big food company to buy this expensive chocolate only during the Chinese New Year or when an important guest came to the house to give gifts. ”

"KFC and McDonald's are everywhere, and it seems like only people who don't know what to eat go in and eat. When I was a child, I went to eat KFC, and it must have been a reward for being the first in the class. ”

"The buildings are getting taller and taller, the roads are getting wider and wider, and the clothes are getting better and better. Zhang Tong sighed: "Is this really China? What has happened in the past 17 years? Why has it changed so quickly?"

Niu Ben listened to Zhang Tong's story, he spread his hands and said, "Welcome to the future." But I think we're probably going to need to change the subjects. Let me teach you how to use the computer first, and then teach you how to surf the Internet. Then from the Internet, you can understand what you haven't experienced in the past 17 years, maybe it's a big era of change. ”

It's the best of times and it's the worst of times.