Due to a major event in China in February, Tang Miaomiao's return to the United States was postponed again.

At the same time, all entertainment activities in China were also stopped, including the Lantern Festival Gala that CCTV was about to broadcast live on the same day.

And net art has become popular inexplicably.

The number of registered users in the newly launched Netart community has changed from 50 people who were quietly launched a week ago to 300 people, and from 300 people to 5,000 people, and the number of registered users has exceeded 10,000 in just one week.

If this data is placed in the future, it can be said that basically this website has hit the streets. Just like the gods in the online literature industry, at the beginning, 8,000 monthly tickets could top the list, but later 20,000 monthly tickets could not enter the top ten.

But now in '97, there are no more than 100,000 Internet users in the country, and no more than one million households have personal computers.

Yes, today's personal computers are actually family computers, and parents buy computers for themselves or their children, but use them together as a family.

Of course, young people still use computers more frequently, but parents who are younger and have a certain level of education also use a lot of time.

Since it was a national mourning time, there was no television, and there was nothing to see in the newspapers, so a large number of netizens who were able to access the Internet extended their online time.

"Chen Pi, what are you looking at? so concentrated?" Liu Nan was lying on the bed in the dormitory holding a book of smiling and proud Jianghu was reading with relish, and accidentally put down the book, but saw his roommate Chen Jiang staring at the computer screen and also concentrated, and couldn't help but ask casually.

This computer was bought by four people in their dormitory, and several people in their dormitory happened to be from Yu Yue, and the family conditions were not bad, and there was also a small engineering team in Chen Jiang's family, which was the worst in the family.

Originally, the money of several people was still a lot worse, but later I found out that there was a brand called aliens stationed in Lin'an a few months ago, and a few people checked that if they bought aliens, the living expenses given by the family should be enough to buy a computer.

So a few people found an alien monopoly, and the flower table was low-profile aliens, and the other party also added a 56k modem for free.

Liu Nan took a few roommates in the dormitory to pull a telephone line from the outside, although the Internet is very expensive, and it is charged according to the phone time, but this is the Internet, how many students can not be interested in this new thing?

Liu Nan saw that Chen Jiang had been dialing up the Internet for more than ten minutes, and he couldn't help but feel a little painful, and couldn't help but ask.

Chen Jiang was a little excited: "Brother Nan, come and take a look, these two people are quite level, they are noisy enough, this BBS is much stronger than Mizuki's layout." ”

Liu Nan turned over and got out of bed: "It's almost enough, a dime a minute, it's enough for a day's food in such a while." ”

Even so, Liu Nan still curiously approached the computer, only to see a discussion page appear in front of him, titled "I was born in the countryside, I want a piece of heaven in the city".

In this era, the discussion board, irrigation or something has not yet risen, although many places have launched discounts such as dial-up plans, but most areas are still billed by the minute. Because the cost of Internet access is too high, many people dial the number, connect to the network, open the web page they want to see, and then immediately cut off the dial-up and watch the web page offline.

The most outrageous thing is that there are also crazy people who will cache the entire website, localize all the pages and watch them slowly.

Originally, this post was just a work of emotion from a college student from a rural area, although it was a long expression of emotion, but it was also normal. But before I got to the tenth floor, it changed its taste.

The reason is that one of them joked with a netizen named "Ning Caichen": "If you want it, you can say it, how do you know what you want if you don't say it, although you look at me very sincerely, but you still have to tell me what you want." Do you really want it? Then you take it, don't you really want it, do you really want it?......

CCTV Movie Channel has just rebroadcast "Journey to the West" a few days ago, this film was released more than a year ago, but the box office is extremely poor, and it is one of the few money-losing works in Zhou Xingchi's movies.

But I didn't expect to be bought by the movie channel after the TV broadcast rights to take advantage of the Spring Festival broadcast to attract a large number of young audiences, now the Internet is not popular, but after the word of mouth of teenagers, it gradually has become a little hot.

This netizen named "Ning Caichen" replied with a line of Tang Seng in the Journey to the West, if it is placed in the future generations, it will not cause any controversy, at most everyone will think that it is deliberately funny, but in this era, there are many older and more serious netizens who think that they are mocking the landlord from the countryside.

Of course, there was no such thing as landlord at this time.

A netizen named "Laughing Book Hero" (Beile, the screen name of that era was this style) launched a long criticism of "Ning Caichen", mainly criticizing "Ning Caichen" for using the well-known lines from Zhou Xingchi's garbage movie to ridicule the landlord from the countryside, which is typical discrimination.

"Ning Caichen" also did not show weakness, sneering at each other, coming and going, the number of participants gradually increased, but the focus of the debate inexplicably changed from the discussion between rural and urban areas to whether Zhou Xingchi's movie is garbage, and whether the movie "Journey to the West" is garbage.

The layout of the net art bbs has adopted a pagination browsing method from the beginning, instead of the current popular electronic bulletin board design, after clicking on the topic, the discussion page can see twenty replies per page, and the rest of the replies need to turn the page, and this post has been thirteen pages in just two days, and the number of replies is close to three hundred.

On the last few pages, someone found that the netart community could be sticker, so he took the trouble to post some screenshots of some of the lines of Journey to the West on the forum, causing a lot of scolding.

Most of the cats that everyone uses are 56k, what are you trying to do? Even if a picture is only 100k, it takes two seconds, not to mention so many pictures?

But there are still some people who have watched the screenshots of the lines in their entirety, and they have watched them with relish, and Chen Jiang is one of them.

"It's interesting. Liu Nan blinked, "What kind of website is this?"

Chen Jiang was still immersed in the network, and said casually: "You don't know? Netart, do you know Ding Lei? It's the webmaster of Firebird BBS, this website is what he did, the architecture is good, and the server is also very fast, you see that the number of people online at the same time has exceeded 5000, and the server has no signs of crashing and slowing down, but the speed of our cat is too slow, I heard that the network in other countries is very fast, and I don't know when we can get faster, if the bandwidth can be five times faster than now, no, twice as fast." ”

Liu Nan knows a little bit about technology, but he is more attracted by the content of the post than discussing the technical architecture, and suddenly wants to watch Journey to the West again.

Liu Nan said suddenly: "Chen Pi, now that school is also open, the one renting a disc at the school gate should be opened, right?

Chen Jiang said blankly: "Rent a dish, what kind of dish?"

Liu Nan said as a matter of course: "Journey to the West, I watched it during the Chinese New Year, and now I will watch it again." I tell you, Zhu Yin is very beautiful and pure in it, it's not interesting to just look at the pictures, the phone bill is expensive, let's go for a walk, I'll pay a deposit. ”

Chen Jiang said happily: "Okay, you wait, I'll take the next page offline." ”

A similar conversation took place in the north and south of the river, and this Lantern Festival became popular with two things:

Netart community and Journey to the West. 8)