In the era of wasteland, the mainstream of the Internet in the future is still in the gestation, Yahoo Spring Breeze is not to mention, Microsoft is taking shape with 95, Google is not called Google now, but backrub, and Amazon is just an online bookstore.

For Jiang Yizhou, the closest achievement is in the field of instant messaging, which alone has become a 100 billion dollar market value enterprise in China, and he wants to give it a try, at least to take the title of the father of instant messaging and occupy a corner of the history of the Internet.

The magnetic cards lying quietly in the cabinet in his bedroom in the rented house were nothing more than the basis for him to achieve financial freedom, allowing him to accelerate the accumulation of wealth, but he was still unwilling to make a big move.

The most fearful thing in life is to miss it, not to make a mistake, and he doesn't want to miss it, November is the time when the ICQ is released in the United States, and he still wants to fight for it.

But because there is no ...... Well, money, renting a server, asking for money, the bandwidth required, now there are 64K enterprise private lines, tens of thousands of dollars per month, Internet access, is burning money, this sentence is not a joke.

In this era, there were cases of being arrested for taking advantage of loopholes to access the Internet for free, because they occupied the time spent on the Internet, causing economic losses.

There are also ignorant children who use the family computer to surf the Internet, and spend hundreds of yuan a month, although the family that can afford to buy a computer should not be poor, at least the monthly income is thousands of yuan, but a pound of pork is only about one piece......

In short, the reason why China's Internet began to take off slowly after 98 is because of the decline in the cost of Internet access, as well as the improvement of network infrastructure, that is, the improvement of network speed.

But Jiang Yizhou still wanted to give it a try.

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Halfway through July, Jiang Xiaoya rode the only bicycle at home to the school with great trepidation, locked the car in the parking shed, and nervously said nothing.

Jiang Xiaoya actually didn't have much hope for her grades, because in the days of the high school entrance examination, she suddenly had a fever, although it was a low-grade fever, but her head was dizzy, and she barely finished the exam, and after checking the answers with other classmates, she suddenly found that she didn't want to say whether she could get a scholarship, and even whether she could be admitted to the high school in this town was a problem!

My hometown has always paid more attention to education, whether it is a county high school, or a town high school, there are some scholarships set up by hometown people who are enthusiastic about education, after all, it is the only poor people left and this piece of green mountains and rivers, if you don't pay attention to education, there are really not many opportunities to get ahead and get out of your hometown.

It was originally the motivation for Jiang Xiaoya to rekindle her hope again, but now that she is in high school with full payment, she doesn't know if she can continue to go to school?

"Xiaoya, what's wrong with you, why are you crying?" Lin Wenhui stood in front of Jiang Xiaoya's desk, her hands behind her back, and her relaxed expression was somewhat out of place in this classroom.

"It's nothing, it's just a little worried!" Jiang Xiaoya brushed away the tears that overflowed her eyes, suppressed her nervousness, and smiled a little reluctantly, "How are you?"

Lin Wenhui pouted, holding her chin with one hand, "My dad has inquired with the teacher, I still have a gap of about ten points, I should pay more than 3,000 yuan in sponsorship fees to go to the town high school, otherwise I can only go to other towns!"

The sponsorship fee is also the default rule in the local area, if the score is not enough for the desired high school line, it will be according to how much worse, pay the corresponding sponsorship fee to enroll, in the case of insufficient school funds, many schools, especially, high schools without much financial support have to rely on these funds to build schools.

However, the county high school and the town's high school are relatively good, this kind of sponsorship only accounts for less than one-fifth of the new students, and it can also ensure the quality of teaching, and the same restriction on the number of sponsors also means that the sponsorship fee is high.

The town's high school is two thousand, a difference of more than one hundred, while the county high school is more expensive, and it needs to be connected to have the opportunity to pay this money and compete for the sponsorship place.

"It's quiet, the students are back to their places, next, I will talk about the situation, the school ......" The head teacher just put the paper that recorded the results of the high school entrance examination of the whole class in his hand, and started the last lesson, telling about the glorious history of the school, hoping that everyone will win more glory for their alma mater.

Fortunately, it is voluntary first and then the exam, otherwise this class will be 100% guaranteed to become an analysis recommendation meeting, and the town junior high school and high school are docked.

"That's all I have to say, I put the report card on the edge of the blackboard, if you have any questions about the results, you can come to my office and ask me!"

When the head teacher left the classroom, the students in the whole class banged, and they all made a fuss, scrambling to see the small piece of paper, most of them didn't have a phone at home, and they couldn't call directly like Lin Wenhui to ask, most of them waited until this time to see the results, as for the score line of each high school, it had been written on the blackboard just now.

"Xiaoya, why don't you go and look at the score?" Lin Wenhui already knew the score, but this time she just came to join in the fun.

"I... I'm a little scared!" Jiang Xiaoya's anxiety in her heart has reached the extreme, even if she has just reached the score line, maybe her parents may provide her with high school, but it is really not possible, it is okay to beg the eldest brother, although it may delay the eldest brother, but if she doesn't even reach the score line, she has no face to ask her parents for tuition.

"Oh~~ Why did Jiang Xiaoya get such a score and didn't even get the town high school, what an accident!" In the group of people who were watching the report card, a boy suddenly shouted, and then the others confirmed it in disbelief.

"Really, what's going on? If you get a grade wrong, it's okay to say, why don't you do well in the test?"

"Xiaoya, is this true? What is going on?" Lin Wenhui heard the cry of surprise and asked Jiang Xiaoya worriedly.

"Woo woo woo~~~" The girl didn't say anything, she lay on the table and cried, a little sad, a little unwilling, others can, but she doesn't allow herself to be like this, this is her effort, her future......

"Xiaoya, don't cry first, what if something goes wrong? It's not that there is no such situation, I'll go to the old class and ask, you stay here!" Lin Wenhui glanced at her good friend worriedly, and ran out of the classroom in small steps.

But for Jiang Xiaoya, it is already quite clear, in the seat of the classroom, crying until her throat is dry and hoarse, waiting until her classmates leave with sympathetic and strange eyes, and waiting until Lin Wenhui brings the head teacher to apply for a review of the test papers, but don't get your hopes up.

When she was alone, Jiang Xiaoya wiped away her tears and rode back home......

"Erya, what about the soy sauce and wool I asked you to buy?" Gao Qingzhen was a little annoyed, went to see the results, but went for most of the day, and only came back now, and came back empty-handed.