In just one hour, the boy did a lot of things! He posted a message asking for help, chatted with friends for a while, skimmed through today's news, ordered a takeout, and bought a pair of sneakers!

This is the end of the boy's story. Are you a little disappointed, I thought that the future life should be like Hollywood science fiction movies, full of intelligent robots, virtual reality technology and the like!

Well, that's probably 50 or 100 years from now, and we'll have just one more computer than we do now. For those who already have a personal computer, it should be more accurate to say that there is just one more network cable to connect to the Internet world!

But it is this network cable that will bring about a great revolution! Yes, this is a new bloody revolution! Old rules will be broken, and new rules will be born!

Those who can't adapt to the new changes will become lost, and eventually even eliminated! and those who dare to surf will become the new industrial heroes!"

Li Xuan's speed of speech suddenly increased, and he began to become a little excited.

"The five things that Chinese teenagers have just done through the computer are two of the disruptions that the Internet will bring to us - the subversion of information dissemination methods and the subversion of business models!

Most of us have a very narrow social circle, which is nothing more than relatives, friends, classmates, and colleagues, which I call acquaintance socialization. And the counterpart to the acquaintance socialization is naturally the stranger socialization.

Before I entered the venue, I overheard a conversation between two college students passing by me. One of them, who seemed to have an amateur radio station, told his friend that he had managed to communicate with a radio station owner in Jack Slovakia on the other side of the Atlantic in the dead of night last night!

Two strangers, thousands of miles apart, met through radio waves. As is customary, the two will send each other cards as proof of the successful connection!

This is a real-life example of stranger socializing, but for most people, such things have nothing to do with them, they are confined to a small circle around them!

But the Internet will change all that, and any two people who have never crossed paths, or even thousands of miles apart, can intersect because of a common trait!

Before he even enrolled at Austin, he may have met a large number of Austin alumni who were eager to answer his questions through Quora!

Someone will tell him which café on campus has the most mellow coffee, where to rent the cheapest rent, how perverted the newcomer test of the fraternity last year was, and how terrifying the amount of extracurricular reading in which professor and which subject was!

You may like to read "The Moon and Sixpence," but your friends have never heard of William Somerset Maugham, an English writer. They only love rugby, they only like pickles!

Now you don't have to fret, because there are countless people on the Internet who also love literature. Lovers of The Moon and Sixpence have created a private discussion group on Quora. So far, 107 book lovers from 14 countries and regions have joined the group!

They may live in Maugham's birthplace, Paris, where Maugham studied, at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, they may live in London, England, where Maugham first published, or they may even be only a block away from you but don't know you.

But one thing you can be sure of is that you're not alone!"

At this point in Li Xuan's speech, the venue remembered warm applause for the first time! Many people heard that Li Xuan was carrying private goods, and it turned out that this website called Quora really existed. But so what, it's not easy to find a friend who has the same interests as you, and it turns out that there is such a cool website!

Another time and space in China, Zhihu was originally inspired by Quora, a website founded by a former Facebook employee. However, the source of the idea for Quora's website in this time and space was originally due to the online technical discussion community within the Oriental Research Institute.

So far, the Institute has set up technology research and development centers in Hong Kong, the mainland, Taiwan, Japan, the United States and Europe. In order to facilitate communication between R&D personnel, the Oriental Institute has set up an online forum.

Under the deliberate guidance of Li Xuan, the entrepreneurial atmosphere within the Oriental Group is very strong, and the company not only does not prohibit employees from starting a second business, but also helps everyone to relieve their worries as much as possible. It is in such a good atmosphere that all kinds of strange ideas have a chance to take root.

A researcher at the Hong Kong R&D Center of the Oriental Research Institute suddenly thought one day that it was possible to develop a discussion community limited to academic exchanges into a professional Q&A social networking site.

Asia Satellite TV's knowledge quiz variety show "Who Can Become a Millionaire" has made the whole Hong Kong's concept of "knowledge is wealth" deeply rooted in the hearts of the people! But how can knowledge be more easily transformed into real wealth?

The researcher's plan to answer questions for a fee was unexpectedly favored by a venture capital manager of Oriental Ventures. As for why the first Q&A social networking site in this time and space is coincidentally called Quora, it is not necessary to guess that it is also Li Xuan's credit.

As for why Li Xuan intersected with this small website, it was another story, anyway, it was all kinds of coincidences. "question or Anser" - "ask or answer", this is the reason why Li Xuan named the website "Quora", a new word, and everyone else thought the idea was good, so they unanimously approved it!

It's been 18 months since Quora was launched, and it's already famous in Hong Kong, but it's still unknown around the world. It is just through this global Internet conference and the mouth of Li Xuan, a celebrity, that a huge exposure for Quora is made!

Li Xuan believes that after today, the Quora website will definitely be known by more people and attract more curious eyes to try!

For Li Xuan, who has experienced the era of Internet explosion, he doesn't have too many website ideas in his head. But not every successful website in the future can be used right now.

After governments led by the U.S. government began to support and promote the development of the Internet at the national level, the Internet began to attract more and more attention, and its development can be described as rapid and rapid development.

However, relatively speaking, the Internet infrastructure is still very weak, such as network bandwidth, that is, data transmission speed, is still very low, at least like video and live broadcast technology, there is still some way to go from commercialization.

The reason why Quora was selected by Li Xuan to promote at the Global Internet Conference is that it is very suitable for the current stage of the development of the Internet. When it comes to the Internet operation model, the first thing that most people think of is the Yahoo model and the Google model.

The Yahoo model is to attract huge traffic through Internet content, and then attract advertisers through traffic, and use advertising fees to achieve disguise. Google's model is to attract traffic through search engines, then use keyword bidding to accurately sell advertising space, and finally monetize it in the form of advertising fees.

This is often referred to as the free model of the Internet, but the Internet is not really free, whether it is bandwidth, content or search technology, it requires huge investment.

Taking video websites in another time and space as an example, on the one hand, the popular TV series, variety shows and other content purchased by the website require huge copyright fees, and on the other hand, in order to enable users to enjoy a high-definition and smooth viewing experience, it needs to spend a huge amount of money to purchase a large amount of bandwidth from telecom operators. So don't look at the video sites' advertising revenue for a year, but after excluding operating costs, they often still lose money!

One of Quora's huge advantages is that you don't have to pay for content acquisition, and you can even get a portion of the revenue from it. On the other hand, Quora also has low bandwidth requirements for high cost, and the current Quora website is almost a text-only website, and even the ability to upload images is not yet available.

This keeps Quora's operating costs very low, and a single venture capital is enough for it to burn for a long time. After all, in the future, whether it is Zhihu in China, Douban, or Quora abroad, you will not hear that like video and live broadcast websites, a financing can easily cost hundreds of millions, and then the next round of financing will start in less than half a year!