The Collection of The End

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"I know you are there."

"I can feel it."

"You are scared."

"You are afraid of us."

"You are afraid of change."

"I don't know what the future holds."

"I am not here to tell you how everything will end."

"I'm here to tell you how everything will start."

"I'm going to hang up."

"When this is over, where will the world go."

"I leave this choice to you."

【——AD.1999.5.7——】

"Haha—ha—"

Thomas A. Anderson raised his head abruptly, calming his fierce heartbeat while breathing heavily.

A few seconds later, as the heartbeat gradually slowed down, the surrounding sounds gradually passed into his ears.

It was the crackling of the keyboard, the hum of the copier, the low-pitched conversation, and the sound of footsteps.

Next, some dilated pupils gradually focused, allowing him to see clearly what was in front of him. It was a 17-inch rear-projection monitor. Several rows of fairly normal program codes were displayed on the screen, as well as the countless numbers below them. The garbled characters that are enough to cause intensive phobia and the error warnings raised by the debug program.

Next to the monitor, there are a humming computer host, a pen holder with few pens, a desktop bookshelf strewn with basic programming code books and a little debris, a mug with steaming coffee, and a small pot Too healthy green dill.

These items are all placed on a pure white small computer desk with two drawers, and this computer desk is surrounded by a half-height translucent plastic enclosure, and is separated from other simultaneous desks. .

When looking out from the window on the wall not far away, you can notice that the sky is completely dark, and on the ceiling above, cold incandescent lamps are illuminating these work compartments with almost no vacancies.

As familiar things came into view one by one, Anderson's little confusion when he just woke up gradually disappeared, and his memories began to recover.

Yes, this is my office, and I am "voluntarily working overtime" to complete the work arranged by the company. I made a cup of instant coffee because I was too sleepy, but I tilted my body slightly while waiting for the coffee to cool. Fell asleep accidentally.

Since everyone is very busy, no one sticks out of the cubicle to care if they are too tired. There is no difference between the environment before the nap and after waking up, at least Anderson himself thinks so.

When it comes to work, it is purely in the opposite sense of "predecessors planted trees and future generations enjoy the shade", Anderson thought while deleting the garbled characters that were pressed out while sleeping.

Those pioneers who are engaged in electronic computers, for some unknown reason, set the length of the field representing the year to two, that is, the year 84 represents 1984 and the year 95 represents 1995. At first there was no problem, but this problem is entering 1999. Years later, it was directly upgraded to the "millennium bug": What year should it be the next second at 23:59:59 on December 31, 1999? 1900? 2000? Human beings will not have problems. Only those computers that have spread to all aspects will cause problems. Any equipment whose functions are related to time may fail.

And Anderson's software development company is to solve in advance the impact of the "millennium bug" on all software developed by itself and requires employees to work overtime.

The focus here is on "advance" and "oneself". By this crisis, other software companies are stepping on the upper hand. Unsurprisingly, all software companies think so.

The basic idea to solve this problem is to change a two-digit year to a four-digit year, but because it involves too much and there are no successful cases before, all the programmers of the company cross the river by feeling the stones, so who can be the first To solve this problem, whoever is the leader of the industry, others will have to look at it and act-of course, it may also be attacked by hacking and hacker attacks.

However, this modification is also very problematic, because by the time 9999, the four-digit year will be insufficient again. What should we do then? Some people may think that it is impossible to use the same calendar for 10,000 years, but there is no absoluteness in the world, and people who think 10,000 years later can solve this problem by themselves... This is not the same as setting the year as a two-digit figure to save trouble. Is the guy as bad?

Let Anderson say that the year format is directly set to Int. Are you afraid of years that exceed the life of the universe?

However, these things basically have nothing to do with Anderson. First of all, he is just an ordinary programmer in the company. Even if he jumps out and claims that he has solved the "millennium bug" problem, no one will believe it, and secondly——

The small problem of the "millennium bug" has long been solved by [TheGROX].

The so-called "matrix" refers to a secret online world that cannot be accessed by normal means and is only used by a small group of people who know it. There is everything there, and there is nothing at the same time. The capable people can get everything in a short time. , But you will lose everything instantly if you make a mistake.

As a hacker who is not too advanced, Anderson entered the matrix under the pseudonym Neo by accident. After discovering that the water was too deep, he didn't dare to do anything at all. He looked up at the fight between the gods and the big guys every day. A little bit of internal information of listed companies is used to run short-term stocks in hand.

In this kind of very dangerous network, if the "millennium bug" breaks out, the possible losses cannot be compared with the "clear net". Matrix users do not dare to believe others, so they start to think of ways to solve this early. The problem, but because not everyone is a master of the network and programs, half of the users solved it by themselves, the remaining people found a relatively reliable master to help them, TA's name is "Trinity" .

This very powerful master did not disappoint everyone's expectations. He just compiled a universal tool installation package without tracking IP, implanting Trojan horses, grabbing permissions, transmitting intelligence, making the battery overheat and explode, and successfully solved it for them. There is a millennium bug problem, and the one responsible for ensuring the security of this installation package is another master. TA's name is also very interesting, called Morpneus.

Anderson didn’t download the installation package. After all, this software company paid him a lot of wages. There is no need to leave clues to lead matrix masters who don’t know what personality to harm them—and even if they download it, it’s at his level. It can't be cracked.

Da da da--

Anderson drank his coffee in one sip and started crackling on the keyboard to continue. After all, although he quietly gained some benefits from the matrix, in any case, this superficial job must be maintained, otherwise the source of the funds for the mortgage and car loan is unknown. But it will be found by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

He is just an ordinary white-collar worker in the company and doesn't like trouble.

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