Ye Yufei, who chatted on QQ for the first time, was still in high spirits when she went to school the next day, and couldn't help but chat with Lu Xiaofeng about OICQ again. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Lu Xiaofeng took the opportunity to let her promote to her former classmates and friends, pull everyone she knew into the world of OICQ, and at the same time recommend it to her classmates in class.

However, at that time, the average household still only had tape recorders and color televisions. Computers are also high-tech, more than 10,000 for general households, ordinary working families can't afford to buy them, and there is no urgent need for use, such as Tiecheng, a second- and third-tier city, in addition to those large companies have office computers, and only local tyrants who are not bad for money will buy computers and put them at home.

Therefore, students generally use handwritten letters to communicate with distant friends and family, and if there is an emergency, they are calling, but the local call fee of 6 jiao per minute and the remote call fee of 1 yuan per minute make ordinary people can only say a few words.

Before mobile phones became popular, BP machines (also called pagers) that could receive information were once very popular. When you want to contact the BP owner, call the hotline of the pager, and then leave a message, and the pager will send the message to the BP machine through a short message, and the owner will receive a text message and call by phone. In the eyes of Lu Xiaofeng, who is used to using mobile phones, it is quite troublesome.

Later, as soon as the Internet café appeared, it became popular, chatting QQ, playing games, watching movies, reading novels, Lu Xiaofeng also spent a few nighters in the Internet café in his memory, just because the night fee was half cheaper.

Lu Xiaofeng's recommendation of OICQ failed to receive results in the class, but it reminded him of an Internet café.

"Then I'll eat the first crab and open the first Internet café in Iron City."

As soon as Lu Xiaofeng went home to talk to his parents, he demonstrated the chat with Ye Yufei on OICQ, and said that he was going to invest in OICQ, and the family reached a consensus to open a small Internet café with twenty or thirty computers first.

Lu Guoqing stared at the coal mine and the construction company, and he had to go to Shenzhen to contact Tencent, Lu Xiaofeng had to go to school again, and only Qin Li would operate the Internet café.

Renting a storefront, applying for a business license, applying for broadband and the like, because there is money, access, and connections, it is simple, and I deliberately chose to be opposite Tiecheng Institute of Technology.

On the contrary, the purchase of a computer was delayed for a few days.

Last time, the computer in the buyer was bought in the provincial capital - Jiangcheng, but this time I inquired, I had to go to Jiangcheng, and there are no merchants in Tiecheng who sell computers.

When he went to the computer shop in the provincial capital to talk about the opening of an Internet café, the boss was very happy, and he heard that there was no administrator of the Internet café, and he also warmly recommended a network manager, according to him, it was his cousin's classmate who worked in the Internet café in Jiangcheng.

Decorate the room, according to Lu Xiaofeng's idea, make it very simple, it is a long row of computer tables against the wall, there is no partition, the chair is a simple solid wood chair, and there is no need to match the seat cushion, the most primitive Internet café, there is no need for comfort and privacy at all, what VIP private room or the like, I will talk about it later.

I installed the computer and debugged it, and the Internet café did not open for business until half a month later, and took a very fashionable name in the later generations, "e-network love".

The operation of Internet cafes is based on the membership system in Lu Xiaofeng's memory, although there was no Internet café management system at that time, but it can be used manually.

Find someone to make a bunch of paper membership cards, implement the real-name system, and use the ID card to apply for a card for free. When using it, you should also show your ID card to avoid counterfeiting.

The opening of the implementation of a large reward, non-members of the first week of the hour 2, after the hour of 3 yuan. $1 per hour for the first week and $2 per hour thereafter. It's important to note that membership is preferred.

For membership cards, if you recharge 20 yuan at one time, you will get 5 yuan; If you recharge 30 yuan at one time, you will get 10 yuan; One-time recharge of 50 yuan or more, get 20 yuan.

In terms of time, if it is less than half an hour, it will be counted as half an hour, and if it exceeds half an hour, it will be counted as one hour.

The membership card has a special ledger management, and the member's boarding number, boarding time, and disembarkation time must be recorded in detail, and the member is required to sign for confirmation.

Lu Xiaofeng also had people make leaflets, hired a few college students from Tiecheng Institute of Technology, and distributed them everywhere in the school.

The leaflet is not as beautiful as that of later generations, it is written in black and white, and the content contains the name, address, and membership system of the Internet café, and also deliberately promotes the function of OICQ.

College students were always the most receptive to new things, and they were also the most eager for the Internet in that era.

It is said that "poor students", from middle school to university, from the ivory tower to the society, the material and cultural needs of college students are growing geometrically, and the economic source is mainly the monthly financial support of parents, and how many are not poor?

And college students have traveled all the way, elementary school, junior high school, high school, there are hundreds of classmates, and there are dozens of less. There are even long-distance relationships. So college students, almost every day, there is a need for letters and phone calls.

A letter costs 6 cents for a short distance and 8 cents for a long distance; And a phone call is worth a letter in a minute. Some people, just for the sake of this letter and phone call, would rather save money, eat less meat, smoke less cigarettes, or even buy one less piece of clothing, and can endure the decline in material treatment, but they can't endure the spiritual loneliness and desire to communicate.

After the e-mail came out, the college students, like wolves that had been hungry for three days, pounced on it fiercely. Unfortunately, the school's computer and network resources are also limited, and even some schools with poor conditions only allow computer science students to use it.

As soon as the "e-Internet Love" Internet café opened, the students of the School of Engineering were like sharks smelling blood, and a long queue formed at the door of the Internet café early in the morning on the opening day, and everyone had their ID cards and money ready.

You want to say that you don't have an ID card, and you can get on without a membership card, but if you look at the posture in line, it's not a member, can it be your turn? Members are preferred!

Qin Li was originally a shopkeeper, on the first day of opening, she was going to take a look at the situation, but when she saw this posture, the newly recruited cashier was already busy crying, so she had to go up to help collect the money.

Fortunately, Lu Xiaofeng expected it, so the Coal Mine Safety Department sent a few people to maintain order, uniform summer training uniforms, and sunglasses.

The busiest is actually the network manager, college students, who have used the computer, are okay, know that they are groping, some have never used the computer at all, so they came with their classmates, and the network management has to teach them how to switch input methods, how to surf the Internet.

Seeing such a hot scene, Qin Li was already thinking about expanding the scale of the Internet café, or opening a second or third Internet café.

In fact, about the Internet café, Lu Xiaofeng just came up with some ideas, although this is also a chicken that lays golden eggs, but it is just a chicken, it is okay to come up with an idea, spend more energy, he is not interested, he only has gold mines in his eyes.

Lu Guoqing went to Shenzhen, but through a classmate of Ye Jianguo, he got in touch with the industrial and commercial department, and found the address of Tencent and Ma Huateng.

Seeing the young Ma Huateng and his humble office environment, Lu Guoqing, who has accumulated hundreds of millions of assets through coal mines and construction companies in the past two years, can't connect him with the future "richest man in China".

Could it be that he also has "special abilities"?

Out of trust in Lu Xiaofeng's "special function", thinking of his son's instructions, Lu Guoqing still expressed his interest in OICQ, revealing a little bit of investment.

And Ma Huateng, because OICQ was founded, has no bottom on the prospects of OICQ, and he didn't expect this gadget to be a money-burning "foodie", the company is not short of money, and has not thought about introducing investment.

Therefore, the first contact, there was no intention to cooperate, but only the exchange of contact information.

Lu Xiaofeng asked his mother to open an Internet café, his purpose is to promote the spread of OICQ, anyway, he can't lose money by opening an Internet café now, with his business philosophy in later generations, the return of funds is fast, he is ready to spread the business of the Internet café as soon as possible, attract more people to the Internet café, and will definitely attract more Internet café investors.

In his eyes, although the development of Internet cafes in later generations has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, but because the resources on the Internet are still relatively monotonous and poor, and the initial investment of Internet cafes is relatively large, a lot of capital is not a rabbit and does not scatter eagles, out of risk considerations, still wait-and-see, until the explosive development of QQ and the rise of online games, the number of netizens has skyrocketed, and Internet cafes have seen explosive growth.

Lu Xiaofeng wants to reverse this order, the demand for instant messaging has always been there, and now QQ has also appeared, rather than letting telecom operators continue to monopolize profits, it is better to attract users to Internet cafes, the development of Internet cafes and the surge of QQ users, promote each other, and grow at the same time.

When the number of QQ users rises to millions or tens of millions, can Ma Huateng's simple equipment still support it? Internet companies are all raised by burning money, and he has not yet found a way to make a profit, so he still has to look for investment when the time comes.

"I am the living Lei Feng who sends charcoal in the snow! Hehe! ”

This can be regarded as a curve to save the country, and it is big with a small one.

In the future, QQ almost dominated the world, why are there only hundreds of thousands of OICQ users now?

First of all, a restriction is the basis of the entire Internet network, there are only so many computer users, where are the OICQ users?

The second is the limitation of OICQ itself, in the initial stage, the investment is limited, and there is no strength in later generations to make overwhelming advertisements for an APP, it is said that in order to promote OICQ, Ma Huateng also personally went into battle and left messages and advertised on the BBS of various universities. It's such a rudimentary condition.

In May, Qin Li opened a second Internet café next to Tiecheng Normal College, and in view of the fact that the first Internet café was full, the second one was twice as large as it was, with a full 50 computers.

There is a theory called the "Theory of Six Dimensions": it means that you can know any person in the world through up to six people.

When you are still thrifty, giving your long-distance lover, making a phone call of 1 yuan/minute, writing a letter of 8 cents/letter, but you find that your classmates are using free QQ to chat for several hours, and only spend a few yuan for Internet access, can you not choose QQ?

Perhaps it was Lu Xiaofeng's vigorous promotion through Internet cafes, coupled with the word of mouth of college students, or maybe it was other butterfly effects, by mid-May, Lu Xiaofeng found that the newly applied OICQ number was already 7 digits, which means that OICQ users have exceeded one million.

"Ma Huateng, your server is almost overwhelmed, right?"

Thinking of the recent phenomenon of OICQ stuck and disconnected, Lu Xiaofeng thought.

Sure enough, at the end of May, Lu Guoqing received a call from Ma Huateng, inviting him to inspect Tencent again and discuss cooperation.

This time, Lu Xiaofeng decided to go with his father, so the day of the inspection was set for the weekend.