On the evening of October 30, 1997, seven or eight people were surfing the Internet in an Internet café called Keda, near the south gate of Peking University in Beijing.

The façade of this Internet café is not large, it is only forty or fifty square meters, and there are sixteen or seventeen computers. At this time, such a large-scale Internet café is no longer small.

Although the Keda Internet café is close to the student dormitory concentration area at the south gate of Peking University, and this time should be the peak period of Internet access, there are not too many Internet users.

This is because the Internet fee is too expensive, and the cost of 30 yuan per hour is not something that everyone can afford.

These seven or eight Internet users, without exception, are hanging QQ chat, and now, using QQ chat has become the most fashionable thing.

In the small Internet café, I can only hear the sound of crackling and rapidly tapping on the keyboard, and occasionally a partner who comes here is talking in a whisper, talking about dating with netizens.

"Ahh This girl asked me to meet at the gate of Haidian Park, do you think I should go? ”

"Go! Why don't you go? Okay, buddy, we've only been talking for a long time, and there's a girl bubble tonight. ”

"Damn! She said she was ugly. ”

"There aren't many girls who have the courage to say they're ugly now, I see, she's definitely just modest, maybe people are actually as beautiful as flowers."

"What are you afraid of? It's not the same when the lights are off? ”

"Forget it, buddy isn't that thirsty!"

"If you don't go, I'll go and see it for you, if it's really a dinosaur, take a look at it from afar, and I'll run away, can't I?"

Dinosaurs, this word is still from Xiao Fei's novel "The First Close Contact". Nowadays, with the popularity of novels, dinosaurs have become synonymous with ugly women, and they are very popular.

A few people were chatting, and a guy who was originally muffled and just chatting violently suddenly shouted: "Ah! Look, look! Feixun Technology has issued a notice! ”

"What notice?"

"It seems that they launched a paid service called 'QQ member', with a service fee of 5 yuan per month, and a one-time purchase of half a year and an extra month. If you buy it for one year at once, you will get two months free. ”

"It's only 5 yuan a month, which is not expensive! It's only 60 yuan a year! It's only enough for two hours of networking, so it's really cheap! ”

"It's really not expensive. There is also member privilege service content,What is the member icon lit up,QQ level acceleration and QQ show discounts、QQ chat room privileges, etc.,It seems,QQ is going to push new service content again。 QQ show I don't know what it is, but it's fun to listen to, if QQ launches a chat room, it must be a nationwide chat room, looking forward to it, I'm really looking forward to it. ”

"I think this service is worth it, how can I buy it?"

"Then you can see for yourself, click on any dialog box, and you can see it."

Soon, the people in the Keda Internet café began to discuss QQ's notice. Even the one who has already made an appointment with a girl. I don't have to worry about whether I can go or not.

The girl can be soaked again at any time.

After the launch of QQ, many people suddenly found that it became very easy to pick up girls, and if they chatted speculatively on QQ, they could make an appointment to meet offline.

At this time, the girl is already bold and enthusiastic, and there is not much utilitarian purpose.

It's really the golden age of pickled girls.

Because of this, QQ's every move as a new fashion favorite is much more important than pickling girls for people who often surf the Internet.

In addition to this membership service, there is another content in this notice that really shocks these people.

This content is the QQ pretty number that is sold at a public price.

"Damn! Isn't this crazy? A QQ account is actually selling for 300,000?! 300,000 yuan can buy a big house in the capital, and a house is deposited in the bank, and the interest is enough for ordinary people to live a very nourishing life. ”

This time. is in the era of high interest rates, 300,000 yuan of money, deposited in the bank will have tens of thousands of interest every year. In 97, the per capita income in cities and towns was less than 10,000 yuan.

"It's really too expensive."

"Is it just too expensive? It's too expensive, isn't it? I think that eighty percent of the bosses of Feixun Technology are poor and crazy, or their brains are in water. ”

"But. These numbers are really good! Think about it, if you use a QQ number of five eights, then it should be Dorafeng, girls will probably look down on you when they see your number, and they will rush to you, this is simply a big killer of pickled girls! Used it. How many best beauties are not all hand-to-hand? ”

"That's true, but in order to pick up girls, you go bankrupt to buy a QQ pretty account, how crazy should this be? If your family had found out, they might have taken you to the psychiatric department! ”

They talked enthusiastically.

At the end of the debate, everyone agreed that if you really have money to a certain extent, it would be good to spend money to buy one of these beautiful names.

But for those of them who are still spending money, it is unrealistic to buy the beautiful numbers worth tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands in the front, and it is still worth considering the Q numbers of one or two thousand in the back.

As for the QQ membership service launched by Feixun, the children of these rich families all agree that it is worth having, and they feel that using QQ members is also a privileged class among QQ users, and it is not bad to use it to install forks.

To their regret, the notice issued by Feixun clearly stated that it would not be until 9 a.m. on November 1 that the 168 voice phone service of purchasing QQ members would be opened.

If they can buy it now, they want to go to the outside public phone booth to make a voice call to buy a QQ membership service to see if it is easy to use.

Scenes like this are happening in Internet cafes in major cities across the country. This aroused great enthusiasm and strong interest from all netizens.

Many people said that if QQ members are really as good as the notice says, they don't mind buying one.

Lei Sheng is a reporter at the Beijing Evening News, and he can be regarded as a veteran netizen.

That night, after he was busy with interviews, he ate outside, and when he got home, he began to turn on his computer and surf the Internet. In order to surf the Internet, he pulled a 32K DDN special line at home, and he would go up for a while every day. It's much easier to use than a phone dial.

He is also very interested in the new QQ. He applied for a QQ number as soon as possible and tried to chat with netizens.

As soon as I used it, the thunder was fascinated.

The first time he chatted, he stayed up all night, chatted with a girl, and chatted until more than two o'clock in the morning the next day, before he reluctantly said goodbye to sleep.

The feeling of chatting online is very amazing, and he can't stop it.

After QQ came out, Lei Sheng went to interview Feixun Company, and also wrote QQ's strategy after studying the functions of QQ.

Tonight, as usual, he turned on the computer, and after getting on the Internet, he immediately logged in to QQ.

Lei Sheng has been using QQ for more than 20 days, and he has added more than 100 netizens on QQ, and there are a few female netizens who can chat.

He even met with three or four netizens, and some super friendship happened.

As soon as he got on QQ, he heard a ticking sound in the speaker, which was the sound of QQ's message being delivered.

Lei Sheng clicked on the first dialog box, and saw the message sent to him by his netizens: Thunder, Feixun Technology has sent an important notice, look at it, maybe you can make a big news!

Leisheng's QQ nickname is Leisheng, and he also added his own professional evening newspaper reporter Leisheng, so that people can know what he is doing at a glance.

At this time, many people give themselves QQ nicknames, all of which are real names, and they are so sincere that they are a mess.

Lei Sheng followed the prompts of netizens, and also saw the notice issued by Feixun Technology at a glance.

He looked at it carefully, and his heart was excited.

It's really good news material.

Now that the Internet is developing so fast, netbooks are a fashionable thing, and Feixun QQ is so easy to use because it is the first instant messaging software in China, it has become a hot spot on the Internet recently. Feixun Technology is now going to launch a paid membership service and sell QQ beautiful accounts at sky-high prices, which is estimated to attract people's attention and cause a sensation in the whole society.

Thinking so, Lei Sheng began to use his home phone to dial the mobile phone of Liu Xinming, vice president of Feixun Technology.

He knows Liu Xinming, has interviewed Liu Xinming twice before, and has written several manuscripts about Feixun, and he is also familiar with Liu Xinming.

The phone was dialed many times, but it turned out to be busy.

Later, instead of being busy, the other party has turned off the phone.

This annoyed Thunder.

If he wants to catch up with the news, he must write out the manuscript tonight and send it to the newspaper office, so that it can be guaranteed to be sent tomorrow.

If you can't even interview the relevant people of Feixun, what should the news do?

Lei Sheng gritted his teeth, he decided to call the relevant leaders of the newspaper first, report a topic, if you can't interview anyone tonight, then just write the manuscript first, anyway, it's not a negative draft, it's not so particular.

Lei Sheng first called the editor-in-chief of the newspaper on night duty.

The editor-in-chief listened to it and told Lei Sheng: The layout will leave him a quarter of the edition, if the manuscript is well written, has depth, and the interviewed people are authoritative, the title on the manuscript is fine.

With the words of the editor-in-chief, Lei Sheng's motivation is even greater.

After hanging up the phone, he first drew up an outline of the news, and first called several authoritative figures in the IT industry to listen to their views.

Then, Lei Sheng called the relevant lawyer and asked the lawyer to express his opinion on whether the incident of Feixun Technology selling its company's QQ number at such a sky-high price was illegal.

In the end, Lei Sheng tentatively dialed Liu Xinming's mobile phone again.

This time, the thunder was cleared.

"Mr. Liu, I'm the thunder of the evening newspaper, I interviewed you last time." He first reported to his home.

"Hello reporter Lei, don't you want to ask me about the notice issued by my company?" Liu Xinming's voice was very tired. That night, his phone kept ringing since Feixun sent that notification.

A lot of media called to interview him.

Even, after the CCTV news reporter contacted him, he ran over with a camera and did an exclusive interview with him. (To be continued.) )