Chapter 096: Penguins
After the regular meeting, Kishimoto returned to his office and sat down. He spun the chair under his ass left and right, still thinking about Chinese mainland in his head.
The resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977 was of great epoch-making significance, which directly changed the future of many poor students, their families, and even the fate of their families.
In 1978 and 1979, although the overall admission rate of the college entrance examination increased, it remained at the level of about 7%. At that time, college students went to university, not only did they not have tuition fees, but also had a certain amount of living allowance for normal majors and other majors.
The latter tradition has continued to the next generation. Even if you start charging tuition, it is basically the least major.
Twenty years later, with the exception of arts, university teacher training majors are still quite cheap compared to university business majors. The tuition fee for finance majors is expensive, and it is said that the tuition fee in some 985, 211 or 211 well-known finance and economics universities is 1 or 20,000 yuan.
The Master of Business Administration from famous universities in Chinese mainland, that is, MBA, or Executive MBA EMBA, is less than 100,000 yuan of people's tuition fees, and more than hundreds of thousands of yuan of tuition fees.
It does not yet include famous private schools such as Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and China Europe International Business School. Actually, reading books is one aspect, and the most important aspect is to make friends.
The formal implementation of the non-package distribution began in 1996, and after 1998, it began to be implemented on a large scale, and by 2000, the package distribution system was completely discontinued. Another reform that accompanied the abolition of package allocation was that the state would no longer cover the tuition fees of university students.
And at this point in the time of the introduction and promotion of the policy, there is no inevitable relationship with the Asian financial turmoil, just a coincidence, is it possible?
Until 1996, university graduates were assigned jobs. Especially college students in the seventies and eighties have the highest social status.
The main force that was able to be admitted to the university in the 70s was the old three in the past. As for the 80s, there were people from all levels of society who took the college entrance examination.
Regardless of whether the assigned work is good or not, as long as the college students arrive at the unit, they are generally received by senior management.
A college student came and was robbed by them. Once there is a newly reported male college student, as long as he is not married, either the factory leader takes the initiative to introduce his daughter to the other party, or he wants to introduce the daughters of his relatives and friends to him, as if he has the meaning of catching a son-in-law under the Song Dynasty list back then.
This is less common among female college students, after all, male superiority and female inferiority have always been the norm for marriage in Chinese society. This made Kishimoto think of Wang Shi again. He graduated from college, and his ex-wife graduated from secondary school. In the 80s, technical schools and technical secondary schools were also quite remarkable.
It was only in 1999 that the university began to expand its enrollment, and in 2003 there was a problem with employment. Why was it expanded in 1999?
One of the important reasons is to stimulate domestic demand, give hope, and eliminate the distrust in the minds of the people.
Today, despite the huge external negative impact of the Asian financial crisis, Chinese mainland saw the first nationwide wave of layoffs in 1998, which seriously affected more than one generation.
At the same time, the current era is the best time for the Internet to meet. Naturally, Masayoshi Kishimoto thought of the penguin again.
ICQ is an instant messaging software. In 1996, three Israelis, Wisger, Wadi and Goldfinger, got together and decided to develop a software that would allow people to communicate quickly and directly on the Internet.
THEY NAMED THE NEW SOFTWARE ICQ, WHICH MEANS "I SEEK YOU." ICQ supports chatting, sending messages and files, etc., on the Internet.
The penguins were first imitated by ICQ. Its name is OICQ, and the letter O is added before the ICQ, which means opening I seek you, which means "open ICQ".
However, it was accused of infringement, so Penguin changed the name of OICQ to QQ, which is the QQ that Chinese used later, except for the name, the logo of Tencent QQ has not changed, it has always been a little penguin.
Because the little penguin in the logo is very cute, it is cute in English, because cute and Q are homonyms, so the little penguin with QQ is also a good name.
The origin of Tencent's name is said to be that Ma Huateng's father and college classmate Zhang Zhidong thought that three names all had the word "Teng", and two of them were registered by others in advance, so they had the name Tencent.
At the beginning, Tencent's largest shareholder was Ma Huateng's mother, after all, in 1998, the representative of the registered legal person company had to be a retiree in the society, unemployed, etc. At that time, Ma Huateng was still working as a software engineer.
By 2000, Tencent's OICQ had basically captured nearly 100% of the online instant messaging market in China, and it had basically locked in the win, and then the trouble came.
AOL sent a lawyer's letter to Tencent stating that ICQ is a registered trademark of AOL, so any similar software that uses the word ICQ in its name is at risk of infringing Chuyou's trademark use rights. Ask Tencent to change the name of OICQ or go to court.
Therefore, in the OICQ2000 Build 0325 version, OICQ has made another change to protect itself in advance, but the 0325 version calls itself "QQ2000" from the beginning of the installation file to avoid legal conflicts with ICQ, which was originally a nickname for OICQ by netizens, and I don't want to become the official new name of OICQ overnight.
In 2002, there was also a network instant messaging software called UC, which launched a threat and challenge to QQ. However, the good times did not last long, resulting in Sina's final total defeat.
The emergence of QQ has changed the way the public communicates. Before Masayoshi Kishimoto was reborn here, the first time he had close contact with QQ was when he was in junior high school.
At that time, he went to an Internet café to play LAN games such as "Red Alert" and "StarCraft" with his classmates and friends.
Often after turning on the computer windows main interface, the first mouse click is to log in to QQ. Girls are the most obvious.
The way of billing in the Internet café is a pen, a small book, and the network management looks at the specific time when the person comes to the machine to start. When people get off the plane, it's over. Either directly say how much time you are on, how many hours, and be called by the network management when the time comes, or just casually get on until you get off the plane, and then count the money.
The popularity of QQ has given birth to a new word, see the light die. The two strangers met and chatted on QQ, and then met at a time and place in the same city.
At first, I was looking forward to it. When I arrived at the place, it was generally not the right goods, after all, there was no such function as photo uploading at that time.
In fact, it was useless to have this kind of function of uploading photos later, and various software tools that could be used for retouching came out. Even for video, it's the same thing.
In Chinese mainland, where computers are not yet widespread, even if you see this side, it is quite troublesome. If two people chat and speculate, they will either make an appointment for the next time they will get on the plane together, or leave their landline phone so that one of them can call.
People are also very simple, and they don't think about those bad things, bad people on the Internet and the like. Everyone just thinks this kind of entertainment and chat is very novel, that's all.
As for the new word of what to send for a thousand miles, it didn't happen on QQ, but later an online game called "Audition".
There is also brain damage, and new terms such as killing Matt come from it. Shake it, make an appointment, that should be from WeChat.