The Internet world in the 80s was still in the wilderness period after the opening of the world, and it was completely different from the Internet age in the era of the information explosion a few decades later. For example, the current BBS system, even the function of online browsing can not be fully realized, but generally adopts the mode of offline browsing.

For example, Li Yue has an East-BBS client software in his computer, and it is through this client that he logs in to the Pearl of the Orient Forum by dial-up networking. BBS is the abbreviation of English "Bulletin Board System", literally translated into Chinese is called electronic bulletin board system.

Due to the emergence of the Eastern Bloc, Hong Kong can be said to be the earliest and fastest-growing region in Asia. As early as 1981, Li Xuan funded the establishment of an ARPANET node in Hong Kong, and rented satellite communications to connect to the global ARPANET system. After the BBS system appeared in the United States, the Eastern Bloc also quickly introduced it to Hong Kong.

In the early days, BBS programs were written by Internet enthusiasts themselves, and the sites were independent of each other, and there was no way to access each other. As a result, Oriental System Software Co., Ltd. wrote a new East-BBS software system and promoted it for free around the world.

After the introduction of the East-BBS software, anyone with only a computer, a telephone line, and a modem was able to build their own BBS website, which greatly promoted the development of the global Internet. There are now more than 20 BBS sites in Hong Kong, and the largest one is undoubtedly the Oriental Pearl BBS Forum, which is funded by the Oriental Group.

In contrast to those who commonly use ABC-3 or ABC-5 computers as servers, only one user can occupy the line at any one time. Access to personal sites that are as slow as a snail. The Pearl of the Orient Forum has adopted the latest generation of web servers from Aikang. The site is directly set up in the communication room of the Hong Kong Telephone Company, which can withstand up to 2,000 simultaneous visits.

The electronics industry is centered on computer, game and other industries. It is rapidly developing into a new pillar of Hong Kong's industry, so Hong Kong has rapidly gathered a large number of high-tech talents in recent years. According to the statistics of relevant institutions, more than 2,000 electronic talents come to work in Hong Kong from Taiwan alone every year.

After all, there are only two universities in Hong Kong, which is far from meeting the demand for mid-to-senior technical talents due to the rapid rise of the local electronics industry. These gaps are mainly made up by the introduction of talents from Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States.

In their daily work, it is difficult for these electronic engineers to leave the figure of the computer, and they are the natural users of the computer. The emergence of the Internet was naturally accepted and liked by these computer enthusiasts at the first time.

There are many computer users in Hong Kong. They are also densely populated in Hong Kong, a small city, which actually greatly reduces the investment cost of infrastructure construction. For example, in the United States, although it has the largest computer population in the world, the people who can use computers in the 80s are at least from middle-class families.

Even if the middle class in the United States lives in big cities such as New York and Los Angeles, they do not make their home in the city center, but in the suburbs within one to two hours of the city center.

This land is vast and sparsely populated. The low density of the population undoubtedly greatly increases the cost of achieving region-wide network coverage. Therefore, after Li Xuan acquired the Hong Kong Telephone Company, Hong Kong's Internet construction speed has actually been in the forefront of the world.

Because even under the strong impetus of Li Xuan's seemingly uprooted seedlings. The losses of the Hong Kong telephone company in the newly opened network business are not serious. By simply charging users a modest internet access fee, the company can quickly recoup most of the upfront construction costs.

And if the U.S. counterparts want to build a high-speed backbone network across the U.S., like HK Electric. The cost of the input will be astronomical. Therefore, the telecom operators in the United States are not in a hurry to promote the development of the Internet. Instead, wait patiently for the technical progress, and wait until the melons are ripe and then take advantage of the trend.

So the Pearl of the Orient Forum can be called yes. One of the largest BBS sites in the world. What is the concept of more than 50,000 posts a day? This means that on average, every 2 seconds, a new discussion post is posted to the forum. You know, it's 1986, and most Hong Kong people haven't even touched a computer. Even after 30 years, this data can be called a popular website.

Of course, a large number of posts are updated every day, and the information on the Pearl of the Orient forum has also begun to become rapidly complex. In order to make it more convenient for everyone to screen the content they are interested in, the entire Pearl of the Orient Forum has now been subdivided into more than a dozen large sections, and each large section is subdivided into several sub-sections.

For example, the game home section that Li Yue is now browsing is subdivided into five sub-sections: arcade, home machine, handheld machine, computer game and comprehensive information. In addition to the game home section, the sports world section that Li Yue also often pays attention to can also be divided into six sub-sections: Hong Kong Group A League, English League One, Horse Racing and Six-Lottery, Comprehensive Sports, and Leisure and Fitness.

Since the Pearl of the Orient Forum cannot be browsed online, users can only use offline browsing. Li Yue's first step after logging into the forum every day is to update the directory of new posts in the subreddits he is interested in.

After the client prompts that the information is updated, Li Xuan usually disconnects from the Internet immediately, and then slowly browses the newly downloaded information on his computer.

The Pearl of the Orient Forum adopts a membership system for login, and each member has a limit on the login time each day according to different levels. Because the maximum number of simultaneous access to the forum is only 2,000, and during the evening rush hour, the number of members who log in to the forum usually exceeds 10,000. In order to reduce congestion as much as possible, the website had to strictly allocate everyone's login time so that everyone had the opportunity to log in to the forum.

Unlike in the past, Li Yue's interest today is not focused on browsing the forum and covering all kinds of information. After he opened the personal client of East-BBS. did not rush to land on the Pearl of the Orient forum, but wrote a post of more than 500 words for the first time.

He is ready to share it with others. I went to the Eastward Journey today to try out the GameBoy-2 handheld, and my thoughts after the new game called "Pokémon".

After posting your own new discussion thread to the forum. Li Yue continued to type again. The post he just uploaded was in Chinese, and now the content typed is in English. In fact, the content of the two posts is similar, except that the Chinese post was published on the Pearl of the Orient BBS forum, while the English post was published on another BBS site called "Oriental Game Alliance".

The Oriental Game Alliance was originally a group of players who were obsessed with various games of the Oriental Game Company in San Francisco, USA, and spontaneously organized an exchange and gathering organization. Later, with the official support of Dongyou, it quickly developed into a game fan association with members all over the world.

Oriental Games will allocate $10 million a year for the "Oriental Game Alliance" to carry out various networking activities among players. The advent of the Internet has allowed this game fan association to transcend the barriers of space. Easily interact globally through a virtual network. The BBS Forum of the Oriental Game Alliance is the official online contact point of the association.

Li Yue is one of the members of the Oriental Game Alliance, so he wants to share the GameBoy-2 handheld and the game called "Pokémon" in English with netizens in other parts of the world as soon as possible.

After uploading the second English version of the trial impression, Li Yue landed on the forum of the Pearl of the Orient again. After completing the data update, he found that his post had received more than a dozen replies in just ten minutes.

"Although I'm looking forward to GameBoy-2 too, you're blowing it too much!

After Li Yue read the first netizen's reply. I couldn't help frowning. So he read what he had written again from beginning to end. He was a little excited just now, but now that he calmed down, he did find that he had written a lot of nonsense. But based on his previous personal experience, the new game called Pokémon is indeed fun. No amount of praise can be overstated!

"After reading your post, I decided, I want to work hard this summer to save money, and it is said that the sales price of GameBoy-2 in Hong Kong. Maybe more than 500 Hong Kong dollars!'God of Wealth Li's heart is too dark, can you spend so much money to play!"

Li Yue finished reading the second reply. I couldn't help but smile! The summer vacation is about to end, and I don't know if this junior will have time to save money. He couldn't help but think of the funny story of how he saved up his pocket money to buy a GameBoy-1. I can only silently wish him good luck!

"Hearing you say that, I also want to sign up for a trial, I don't know if there is a chance!"

This is the third reply, according to the previous arrangement given by Oriental Game Company, GameBoy-2 will be launched in October, in fact, it will not be long. But Li Yue, who was aroused, had a feeling that he was not equal for a moment.

He read the other comments below, and the content was similar. Either I don't believe it very much, or I am envious and jealous. After Li Yue jumped a few comments to reply, he decided to continue to reveal some dry goods. GameBoy-2 and Pokémon are destined to be a new milestone in handheld history. He felt that he might as well be a prophet now, and it would definitely be interesting to be turned out by everyone later.

While Li Yue continued to bury his head in typing on the keyboard, netizens all over Hong Kong were doing the same thing with him. Browsing posts, typing and replying, the Pearl of the Orient forum has built a huge platform for information exchange.

It is said that many savvy merchants have begun to hire people to advertise their products on forums, which is likely to be the first online advertising in the world. It's just that the administrators of the Pearl of the Orient Forum did not have a sense of accomplishment in witnessing history, but deleted these garbage posts along with those meaningless water posts, so as to keep the forum as clean and tidy as possible.

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In the pastry room on the third floor of the Oriental Building, a group of people are nervously and orderly setting up the set, as well as setting up various filming and radio equipment. It was tea time now, and everyone found that a movie crew came to film, so a large number of employees of the Oriental Company immediately gathered on the third floor.

"Brother Xiao Ma is so handsome and stylish, it's a pity that I didn't bring the camera at home, otherwise why would I have to squeeze up and ask for a group photo now! The scene where he lights cigarettes with banknotes in the movie is so cool!" A girl with a few pimples on her cheeks, looking at Zhou Yunfa who was surrounded by fans begging for autographs not far away, said with some.

"The crew of "Sleepless Nights in Hong Kong" is going to shoot in the building for several days, and you will have the opportunity to take a group photo tomorrow. It is said that this movie is about the poignant love story of a game planner in Dongyou Company!" another female colleague said.

"I've been fond of Fa Ge since "Hu Yue's Story", by the way, that movie is also our boss's masterpiece!" The pimple girl continued to gaze affectionately at Zhou Yunfa not far away.

The summer of 1986 was definitely the most important moment in Zhou Yunfa's entire life. With his role as Brother Ma in "The True Color of Heroes", he conquered the audience in Hong Kong at once. "The True Color of Heroes" has been released on August 6, half a month ago, but it is still hot, and it is hard to find a ticket!

And Zhou Yunfa finally got rid of the reputation of "box office poison" in one fell swoop, and was quickly promoted to Hong Kong's first-class superstar. In the recent period, his agent has received more than a dozen film appointments and scripts. But this "Sleepless Night in Hong Kong" was signed with Zhou Yunfa before the release of "The True Color of Heroes".

At that time, Zhou Runfa was at the lowest point of his career, and before the filming of "The True Color of Heroes" started, if it weren't for the popular superstar Zhang Guorong joining, director Wu Yusen wouldn't even be able to get investment. However, Zhang Wanting, the director of "Sleepless Nights in Hong Kong", tried her best to find him in person against public opinion, and decided that he was the most suitable actor in her mind.

Zhou Yanfa relied on "The True Colors of Heroes" to turn over overnight, but he will not forget those friends who once sent charcoal in the snow. After dealing with the fans around him, Fa Ge immediately took the script of the lines handed over by the assistant and continued to figure out what kind of performance he needed to perform next.

This "Sleepless Nights in Hong Kong" is exactly what Li Xuan retold to Zeng Zhiwei before, the pirated idea based on the classic movie "Sleepless Nights in Seattle", which changed the radio romance in it to the Internet romance.

After half a year of careful preparation, the screenwriters of Asia Pictures finally came up with a script that would satisfy a number of sponsors, including Oriental Games Company and Aikang Computer Company.

This movie can be described as a brand implantation show of the Oriental Group, and the unit where the male protagonist works in the story is the Oriental Game Company, and it is the Pearl of the Orient Forum that connects the development of the storyline. The child of the male protagonist and the heroine, a computer prodigy who had both legs amputated because of a car accident, met through the Internet. In the end, the actor not only completed the promotion and salary increase, but also reported the beauty.

The total budget of "Sleepless Nights in Hong Kong" is 8 million Hong Kong dollars, but the total advertising placement fees of various companies, including Oriental Game Company, Aikang Computer Company, Hong Kong Telephone Company, etc., are as high as 6 million Hong Kong dollars.

So as long as this movie is not made into a super bad movie, it will not be a problem to recover the cost at all. And the director of the movie officially became famous in the Hong Kong film industry because of a "Ghost Love", and the talented girl Zhang Wanting.

However, at this moment, she was not busy directing the crew herself, but was chuckling and talking with a refreshing and generous girl dressed up, which made many people in the crew secretly look sideways......!