The Han River in June is a little hot and dry. Zhang Xiaolong, who had just completed his graduation defense, was naked, lying on the bed in the dormitory.

The pu fan in his hand occasionally whistles. The Walkman in his ear was playing Xu Wei's "That Year", a tape he had brought back from backgammon yesterday.

It is also Xu Wei's second chapter album after a lapse of two years. Compared with the previous album, this one is more in line with Zhang Xiaolong's aesthetics.

The beautiful melody and the hymn of praise are more beautiful than the rebellion of two years ago. I've listened to it many times this day, but I still can't get enough.

"Xiaolong, you haven't gotten up yet. It's almost noon, and you can sleep in such a hot spot. Yao Zhicheng, who was in the same bedroom, threw the ceramic basin in his hand on the shelf, and just took a shower, but he still couldn't stand the heat.

"When are you going for the afternoon off-campus special recruitment?" Seeing that Zhang Xiaolong didn't react, Yao Zhicheng casually pulled out one of the earplugs he was carrying.

"What?" Zhang Xiaolong, who was interrupted, looked at Yao Zhicheng with a confused expression.

"Step by step. It's the last day today, didn't you say you were going to check it out? "Since 1993, BBK has gone deep into colleges and universities and started to engage in special recruitment.

This year, in addition to colleges and universities majoring in electronics, Huazhong Institute of Technology, a school with telecommunications majors, has also become a special recruitment college for BBK.

"No, I've already been selected."

"Selected? When was this? Are you really sure you went? Hearing this result, Yao Zhicheng immediately asked three questions.

As a graduate student in telecommunications, in fact, after completing the graduation defense, the school is arranging the counterpart units, as long as they are willing, the telecommunications units across the country can basically go to them casually.

After all, in the era when college students are still very expensive, graduate students are treasures everywhere. Although he had heard Zhang Xiaolong say before that he wanted to go to BBK to have a look, he still couldn't believe that he could make a decision so easily.

"BBK has set up a software department, specializing in the Internet. I just wanted to give it a try, so I agreed to join the company. "The concept of the Internet, after several years of continuous publicity by the domestic media, there are various technological innovations.

Among mainland universities, it is no longer as closed as it used to be. In particular, BBK's "Computer Weekly" will have the latest news on the foreign Internet every week.

A variety of new computer programming languages are included. Zhang Xiaolong, who is already full of interest in the Internet, of course went to the interview on the first day of BBK's special recruitment.

also got his wish and got the position of the software department of BBK.

"Hey! Does BBK have a high welfare package? Yao Zhicheng, who had been struggling, immediately sat down on Zhang Xiaolong's bed and asked curiously.

"The conditions given so far are not bad, the monthly salary is 1500, but it seems that there is a project bonus or something, I didn't hear it too clearly at the time, I went because of this newly established software department. As long as the salary is enough. Zhang Xiaolong thought about it and said truthfully.

"1500 is okay, but I don't know if such a company can last long?" After a little sum in my heart, the unified recruitment unit arranged by the school, the best one now is the southern telecommunications company, and the salary is only about one-third of BBK.

Although it looks low, it is an iron rice bowl of a state-owned enterprise after all, and you can eat it for a lifetime if you go in. But a private enterprise like backgammon, looking at the high wages in front of them, may not be able to go bankrupt when it will be.

In 1994, although the economy improved, many went bankrupt and went bankrupt, and now there are laid-off workers in the north.

"I don't know if this company will last long, but the Internet will definitely last." said that Zhang Xiaolong threw Yao Zhicheng a copy of the latest issue of "Computer Weekly".

Big headline on the cover, the spring of the Internet. This is a reprint of a news article from Matrix News, a monthly current affairs magazine in Texas, about Internet data.

"Between January 1993 and January 1994, the network transmission speed increased by 2,057 units. The number of Internet users is expanding at an annual rate of 2,300 percent" What is even more interesting to readers is that under this report, there is also a commentary on this news from the chairman of BBK.

"It's impossible for anything to grow that fast, it's just extraordinary, and that makes me think about it for a long time. What kind of industry can get a piece of the pie under the high growth rate of the network? ”

"It's like a whole new world, and there will be just as many people in our world in the future, and he will also need infrastructure and high-end enjoyment. Everything is waiting to be developed, waiting for people to fill it, to enrich it. "Anyone who reads Computer Weekly knows that the chairman of BBK often likes to add his own commentary after some news.

The news, which is often very brief, becomes a lot more vivid after his commentary. For example, in the previous issues, a news review about lithography machines in Computer Weekly touched many people.

"If we don't support our own industry, what will we have left in the future? As the saying goes, take people with short hands and eat people with soft mouths. Great men have long told us that we should have enough food and clothing to do it ourselves. ”

"When you don't have it, people don't give it to you. You have it, but you don't want money? What are they afraid of? This is food for thought. "Lithography machines are basically far away from public life.

Not to mention the ordinary people outside, even college students like Zhang Xiaolong, there are not many people who know about it. However, through the flagship stores of BBK Toilet across the country, many people have seen such a report.

Although this comment is brief, it has opened many eyes to the other side of things. The wisdom of the ancients, which has been tempered for thousands of years, has a good saying, nothing to be courteous, either treachery or theft.

Although they don't understand the lithography machine industry, they understand this saying. There is another person who was also stimulated by this "Spring of the Internet".

Far away in Hangzhou, Jack Ma, who is also a teacher at the Institute of Electronic Industry. As a senior member of backgammon, he also has backgammon's "Computer Weekly" at home.

At first, he was not interested in the magazine given by backgammon. After all, when he became a senior member, he only wanted to buy a VCD player so that he could watch "Once Upon a Time" at home.

It's just that backgammon tirelessly sends every issue, and slowly he also became interested. What the Internet, computers, electronics.

The more he watched, the more interesting he felt. really made him interested in this magazine, and half a year ago, Tonglu asked him to be a translator because of a cooperative highway project.

Relying on what he saw from the magazine, he was half-hung about Internet information, and he actually chatted very speculatively with that rice businessman.

This made him realize for the first time that such a given magazine was so advanced. Many of the things in it are entrepreneurs from the United States, and they are all amazed when they hear it.

Since then, he has been more interested in the Internet, and Jack Ma, who was originally going to go to the sea to start a business, decided to aim at the Internet after reading this report.

Although he is a person who wants to do what he says, he is not blind again. It just so happened that there was a problem with the construction of the expressway, and Tonglu County asked him to go to the United States to find out the progress of the project, as well as some possible solutions.

gave him the opportunity to go abroad. This time, he will personally go to the United States to see if what he has found on the Internet is what the magazine said.