For the Chinese people in 1998, the Internet was an absolute high consumption behavior. It costs 8 yuan per hour for Internet and 4 yuan for telephone, compared to the national average monthly salary at this time, if you surf the Internet for 10 hours a day, you will basically spend your salary in a week.

At this time, most of the Internet cafes in China cannot connect to the Internet, at most they can only connect to the LAN to play "Warcraft 2" and "Red Alert 2".

Internet cafes that can access the Internet can charge at least 18 yuan per hour!

However, this still can't stop the charm of the Internet. Many college students save money for a month and go to an Internet café for a few hours, which is more comfortable than doing big health care.

Sohu.com successfully raised $6 million, and Zhang Chaoyang turned from a grassroots to a multimillionaire, which instantly sparked heated discussions in the whole society. A lot of people have heard of the Internet for the first time, and they don't know what it can do, but when they brag about it, they are full of words.

Zhang Chaoyang has become an Internet entrepreneurship hero and is also regarded as an idol by many young people.

Even Ding Ming was interviewed by many newspapers, and because of his move of dropping out of school and starting a business, he was praised as "China's version of Bill Gates" by the Good Things Media.

Song Weiyang's investment in Sohu has also been talked about by the media, and people have speculated about how many shares Song Weiyang has occupied, and how much Song Weiyang's net worth has increased.

At the same time, there are countless young people in China who are setting their sights on the Internet. Some are looking for opportunities to make money, but most of them just want to get in touch with the Internet, and the Internet has become a very high-end and fashionable entertainment.

The number of netizens in China, because of the media coverage of Sohu, has actually come to a crazy surge.

The number of Internet users has increased, but the number of computers has not been enough, and Internet cafes have become a money-making business.

A native of Jin Province named Wang Yuesheng once dreamed of going to university. He took the college entrance examination three times, but did not get an admission letter from any university, and during the tutoring period, the family's only source of income was only 15 laying hens.

So, Wang Yuesheng chose to dig coal, then borrowed 200 yuan to make cement prefabricated parts, and then secretly sold oil. It wasn't until 1992 that the government finally allowed private operation of gas stations, by which time Wang Yuesheng's oil depot had 800 tons of reserves, and by 1997, he had 12 gas stations under his name.

This spring, Wang Yuesheng came to the capital, and the initial purpose was just to recruit a few college students from prestigious universities. However, a famous school is a famous school, so how can it be possible to go to a gas station to work? The direction of people's choice is to study abroad, enter a foreign company or a famous enterprise, become a civil servant, and enter a large state-owned enterprise, and chain gas stations are not considered at all.

Wang Yuesheng, who couldn't recruit college students from prestigious schools, actually found a room of college students from famous schools in an Internet café in Zhongguancun.

This local tyrant, who failed the college entrance examination three times, has an inexplicable admiration and yearning for college students, and immediately decided to open an Internet café. Since Lao Tzu can't recruit college students from famous schools, let college students from famous schools come to Lao Tzu's Internet café to surf the Internet!

Feiyu Internet Cafe was born, and opened 5 branches in eight months, which is actually more profitable than opening a gas station.

The Internet access service handled in batches in Internet cafes is much lower than the cost of individual Internet access. As a result, the night fee of Feiyu Internet café is priced at 8 yuan per hour (20 yuan the rest of the time), barely able to earn some water and electricity bills, which caused a large number of students to run to the Internet in the middle of the night at famous schools near Zhongguancun.

Stories similar to those of Feiyu Internet Cafes are being staged all over the country, and the number of Internet cafes is growing rapidly along with the number of Internet users.

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Deep City.

Brother Xiao Ma looked at the report on Sohu.com, and felt a little excited. But he didn't know how to use the Internet to make money, and at the same time he felt that he was not the material for business, so he threw away the newspaper and honestly became the head of the R&D department of his paging business company.

Flowers.

Ding Sanshi has just gotten 163's free email system, and his business is booming, and there are more and more registered users of 163 mailbox - but he still doesn't know how to make money, so he can only continue to write programs to subsidize his family.

Capital.

A face-blind patient named Dong Ge was wandering the streets at this time, and he was unemployed. But the reason for his loss of job was not because the financial turmoil caused the company to collapse or because of the bankruptcy of state-owned enterprises, but because the Chinese government declared pyramid schemes illegal.

You must know that at this time, the main force of China's MLM is not the uncle and aunt, but the college students who are the pride of the sky. They regard MLM as a road to heaven, and join them by taking out loans and borrowing money, and they are full of entrepreneurial passion.

Dongge's MLM company is still a Japanese company, with monthly sales of more than 1 billion yuan. He has worked in the company's computer, business and logistics departments, and he has just become a supervisor, and the company has equipped him with computers and mobile phones, and he has a subsidy of several hundred yuan for every business trip, and he can live in a five-star hotel.

Seeing that he is about to reach the pinnacle of life, the pyramid scheme is actually illegal, the boss has run away, and Dong Ge has also lost his job!

When the young people came to Zhongguancun, they looked at the newly opened Internet cafes and the towering Zhongguancun Building, and once again came up with the idea of starting their own business. He lived in a shack built by a nearby farmer, and worked as a guerrilla seller of pirated CDs in Zhongguancun, and his business was quite good, so he rented a store and continued to sell pirated CDs.

The name on this façade is "Jingdong".

And Wang Zhidong, who has gained fame and fortune in history, should have received $6.5 million in venture capital last year. However, because Song Weiyang's "Three-Body Problem" has stolen many chat room users, the traffic of Lifang Online has been tepid, and it has not won the favor of international venture capital institutions until now.

Sina, there seem to be signs of miscarriage.

Fortunately, Sitong Group is powerful, and Sitong Lifang got an investment of 5 million Hong Kong dollars a few years ago, and Wang Zhidong has very abundant funds.

Moreover, the article "Dalian Golden State Doesn't Believe in Tears" still appears on the Lifang Forum. In October last year, the Chinese team missed the World Cup, and the fans hugged their heads in pain, and the article received tens of thousands of hits in two days, and was published in full by "Southern Weekly", which made the forum traffic of Lifang Online more and more bullish.

When Sohu received $6 million in financing, Wang Zhidong immediately went to the United States and received $5 million in Wall Street venture capital in one fell swoop. Immediately, he got in touch with Huayuan.com in the United States, and the two sides were discussing a merger - after the merger, it would be Sina.

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Zhedong.

The small hardware business of Ding Daguo is becoming more and more difficult to do, mainly because the competitive pressure is too great, and there are more and more peers doing this business.

In the past, I used to make small hardware, no matter how much I produced, I could sell it, but the production capacity could not go up, and it was difficult to get raw materials in the 80s. Now raw materials are everywhere, and the production capacity is rising, but the production cannot be sold, and the backlog of goods in the warehouse is increasing.

If this continues, the factory will go bankrupt and close down.

Fortunately, there were suddenly more real estate projects in this period, and Ding Daodao got two real estate orders in a row through government relations. If it weren't for the bloody investment when the relationship was made, and the price was very low, Ding Daodao's factory would not have to worry about it this year.

There is another dinner tonight, and a friend invited a local middle-level leader to a banquet and called Ding Daodao to accompany him, maybe he could help him win a certain project.

"Wei Bureau, I'll do it first as respect!" Ding Daodao leaned his neck and finished drinking.

Wei Ju gave a thumbs up and said, "Okay, Boss Ding is a friend enough!"

Ding Daodao's friend smiled: "Lao Ding has always been a friend. Seven years ago, when I was in distress, he lent me 50,000 yuan without saying a word, otherwise I would still be begging for food on the street. ”

"That's really righteous, and I like to make friends with people who are righteous. Come, have another drink!" Wei Ju smiled.

Ding Daodao said: "It is my honor to be friends with Wei Bureau. In this way, I drank three cups and Wei Bureau drank one. ”

Wei Ju laughed: "You look down on my drinking!"

Ding Daodao: "Wei Ju is a big man, I am a small businessman, and only three cups can show my sincerity." ”

"Okay, Boss Ding, let's have a toast!" Wei Ju said happily.

In the 90s, making friends and pulling business to talk about business was to drink better than anyone, you drank others happily, and others helped to do things.

The alcohol test is not for fun.

Wei Ju is obviously also a master of alcohol testing, and a pound of liquor is still full of red light. After talking about the gossip in the city and the interesting stories in the province, he finally turned the topic to the high-tech industry: "The world is changing rapidly, traditional business is not easy to do, and only by doing high-tech can you make a lot of money." Do you understand computers?"

My friend shook his head again and again: "We are all rough people, graduated from elementary school, how can we understand computers." ”

Ding Daodao said with a smile: "I have a computer at home, which usually falls into dust, and only my son uses it when he comes home from vacation." ”

Wei Ju said in a sneer: "If you don't understand computers, you can't use the Internet." It's called the network information superhighway, just like the highway in reality, and the transportation is very fast. The information superhighway is to transport information, and if something happens to the United States, you will know it when you look it up on the Internet in China!"

Ding Daodao immediately patted his ass: "The Wei Bureau knows a lot, and it deserves to be a leader." Come, I'll toast you another glass and show my adoration for you!"

Wei Ju laughed, drank a glass of wine, waved his hand and said, "Actually, I am also half a bucket of water, but my son knows more." Don't look at this kid is only in high school, but he is very good at playing with computers, and his family's monthly Internet access fee is hundreds of yuan. Just last month, the city organized a computer technology competition, and my son won the first prize, and the prize was a pair of roller skates!"

Ding Daodao gave a thumbs up: "The tiger father has no dog, the son of the Wei Bureau family, he will definitely enter a prestigious school in the future!"

"Hahaha," Wei Ju was particularly proud, "Do you know how my son won the first prize? I typed more than 300 words in a minute, and I still got that WPS, computer article typesetting, other students couldn't get him." ”

"Awesome!" Ding Daodao hurriedly cheered.

Wei Ju smiled with a smile on his face: "My son admires two people the most, one is Song Weiyang and the other is Zhang Chaoyang. These two young people are both masters of computers and the Internet, and they can earn millions of dollars in minutes. My kid also said that he would specialize in computer science in college in the future, and this career has a future!"

The friend suddenly said: "Big country, isn't Song Weiyang your son's college roommate?"

Wei Ju was surprised: "Lao Ding's son knows Song Weiyang?"

Ding Daodao smiled: "I know, I also gave Song Weiyang a watch." ”

"Then you're lucky," Wei Ju sighed, "I heard from that kid in my family that one of Song Weiyang's college roommates didn't read any books, so he started a company with him this time." In two years, a poor student has become worth millions, and the speed of making money is amazing!"

Ding Daodao smiled: "I have seen all of Song Weiyang's college roommates, which one is Wei Ju talking about?"

Wei Ju scratched his head and said, "It seems that he is also surnamed Ding, what is it called?"

Ding Daodao felt a little wrong, and prompted: "It's called Ding Ming?"

"Yes, yes, that's Ding Ming," Wei Ju reacted suddenly, "My son also admires this Ding Ming very much, and he said that he dropped out of school to start a business, which is the Chinese version of Bill Gates." ”

"That's my son!" Ding Daodao said depressedly.

Wei Ju said: "Lao Ding, you are blessed, your son is very powerful. ”

"What a fart," Ding Daodao didn't care about the scene, and said angrily, "Lao Tzu endeavoured to send him to Fudan University, and he actually dropped out of school to start a company, don't you say I don't know yet! This little rabbit cub, Lao Tzu has to kill him!"

"Hahaha!" Wei Ju couldn't stop laughing.