The Pentium Era - South to North

Zhang Chen and Zheng Huihong worked for ten days before the website of Zhejiang Banmutian Clothing Co., Ltd. was launched. Although Zhang Chen himself could not explain clearly what the website was used for and how many people could see their company's website, including The actual number of people using "online purchasing" has always been zero.

At that time, who would buy clothes online? What should I do if I buy a large one or a small one? What should I do if I don’t like the style, color or fabric?

When you go to a clothing store to buy clothes, you have to pick and choose them, not to mention online. After placing the order, you have to go to the bank to transfer money to you. I have already transferred the money to you, what should I do if the clothes are not good? Or simply, what if you don’t send me the clothes at all?

The Banmutian clothing website at the end of December 1998 has actually become a pioneer and a martyr since it was first launched. Even Zhang Chen himself almost forgot that they also had a website. The "online shopping" of that website also has a database behind it, so you can place orders online.

At that time, Alibaba and 8848 had not yet been established. Tencent had just been established a month ago. What they did was to provide an online paging system for paging stations. The famous penguin had not yet been born. On the Internet, everyone was spreading the word The Israeli ICQ, the story of the emergency call for help on the plane, OICQ, is still in Ma Huateng's mind.

Wang Zhidong has just uploaded his Sina website this month. On the Internet, the excitement is still Sohu, which was established in February, and NetEase, which was established in May, and the three portals of Sina. E-commerce has not even seen a shadow. By the way, Liu Qiangdong had just established his JD.com, selling computers and consumables in Zhongguancun.

He didn’t know yet that these things could actually be sold online.

Zhang Chen, the late martyr, became interested and never tired of it. He then asked Zheng Huihong and others to help build the website of the M-Zone. All the merchants in the M-Zone were put online, and they could all shop online. The transaction volume was also zero. , M-Zone, the Internet quickly became overgrown, and no one even updated it.

Zhang Chen didn't care. He originally built these websites out of curiosity and Zheng Huihong's idleness and enthusiasm. He had no hope of what this website would bring to him.

However, he bought a chassis and server and placed them in the fabric warehouse. The websites of Half Acre Field and M-Zone were moved from China Wanwang to his own server.

His next interest was in making a website of the future by himself, that is, the website of the Lakeside Oil Painting Gallery. This time, he declined Zheng Huihong's help. Anyway, the content of this website was simple, just paintings.

"I can just do it by myself. I do it slowly and upload one or two a day." Zhang Chen and Zheng Huihong said.

Zheng Huihong was surprisingly angry. The future website was what she said at this time. Although it was a vector image, Zhang Chen made each painting extremely large. You can also zoom in to see the details of each picture. Zheng Huihong was on the modem computer. I tried to open a painting, but failed to do so for more than ten minutes.

Zheng Huihong asked, Mr. Zhang, is this website of yours for people to see, or is it torturing people?

Zhang Chen said that if he really wanted to see it, he would just wait slowly. It was worth waiting for half an hour.

Zheng Huihong opened her eyes wide and said, "Mr. Zhang, do you know that it won't open in half an hour or even a day?"

"It will be opened one day." Zhang Chen said.

"Okay, Mr. Zhang, do it slowly. This is a website for the future anyway. One day, the Internet speed will catch up with your website."

Zheng Huihong said, but she had to admit that when she browsed quickly on the server, this was indeed the most beautiful website she had seen so far. It was completely a work of art. Every frame of the web page looked like So pleasing to the eye.

It's a pity that most people can't see this kind of website.

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By the time He Hongmei took Wenwen and Qianqian from Beijing to Hangzhou, Zhang Chen's enthusiasm for the website had begun to subside.

Anyway, the Internet speed can meet his requirements now, and there are too many things to watch online. Zhang Chen even found a chat room called winchat in the Windows 98 system.

In a large list of drop-down menu directories, there are chat rooms from all over the world, including English, Japanese, French, and Arabic. There are also three or four Chinese ones every day. If you click on them, several Chinese people are chatting inside.

Although the chat speed is very slow, you type a sentence, and someone will reply after a minute or two, but this opened Zhang Chen's eyes, and he felt for the first time that this could still be like this, and he didn't know where in the world he was. His interest quickly shifted to talking to people here, and he would go up there and chat with people every night.

Because the chat room is not fixed and needs to be created temporarily by someone every day, the rooms you enter and the people you meet every day are different.

From the directory of the row of chat rooms, there is no Chinese room. Zhang Chen will create one himself. After creating it, he is like a fisherman, sitting there waiting for the fish to take the bait. At that time, there were really many people online. At most, after creating a room, there are only fifteen people in it at one time, and the normal number is six or seven people.

Because of the damn internet speed, everyone's enthusiasm for chatting will soon be extinguished. Everyone will choose the shortest words, talk about it, and then leave.

One night, a woman came in. The whole night, there were only two of them in the chat room. For an hour, they chatted less than thirty sentences. In these thirty sentences, Zhang Chen knew that the other woman was from Chengdu. The nurse also left her home phone number.

Zhang Chen experienced this kind of thing for the first time. He sat there and hesitated for a long time, but still couldn't hold it back. He picked up the phone on the table and dialed.

A timid girl's voice rang on the phone. The other party seemed to be waiting for Zhang Chen's call. She was almost nervous. She said "hello" in a tense voice. Zhang Chen also said "hello" and there was silence on the phone. Neither of them knew what to say next. Zhang Chen immediately hung up the phone, his heart pounding and his face burning.

Fortunately it was late at night, and fortunately he was the only one in the office.

This was Zhang Chen's first and only phone call with a netizen, and it ended with two "hello"s. Since then, he has never met or contacted him again.

This call ended Zhang Chen's enthusiasm for visiting chat rooms, and he went back to visit art galleries and museums around the world. Zhang Chen regretted that his English was poor, otherwise he would go to those foreign news websites every day to read about foreigners. What are you saying.

When He Hongmei brought Wenwen and Qianqian from Beijing to Hangzhou, Zhang Chen found out that He Hongmei had made an appointment with Xiao Zhao. They happened to have a free time at the end of the year, so they decided to come to Hangzhou for a while. , then Wenwen and Qianqian went home to celebrate the New Year, and He Hongmei and Xiao Zhao went to Chongqing to celebrate the New Year together.

Not only them, Xiao Zhao and Zhang Chen’s parents, as well as Tan Shuzhen, have agreed to go to Chongqing to celebrate the New Year together.

Lao Tan wanted to go back to his wife's natal home with the couple and their children. Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, wanted to go back to Taipei to celebrate the New Year with his family. Lin Shuwan was alone and didn't want to go back to Taipei, so Xiao Zhao invited her to do the same. Let’s go to Chongqing to celebrate the New Year together.

Okay, okay, thank you, Xiao Zhao. Lin Shuwan said.

Liu Ligan found out and shouted, "This is unreasonable. How can you leave me behind? I want to go too."

Xiao Zhao asked He Hongmei, is it okay?

He Hongmei said, ok, my villa can be decorated by my parents. Let's take a look there. My parents, He Dongmei, me, and you, we have four villas, which can accommodate as many people as possible.

Zhang Chen and Liu Ligan said that you can go, but you must bring Lao Liu and your mother with you.

"What are they going to do?" Liu Ligan said.

"Yes, yes, they can stay at my house. All six old people live there. It's so lively. We young people can all live at Hongmei's place." Xiao Zhao said.

Liu Ligan had no choice but to agree. With so many people, this was a chartered flight, he said.

He Hongmei immediately called back and asked her parents to sort out all the rooms in her villa.

Meng Ping knew their plan and shouted, "You must take this lonely old man with you. No matter what, I am fine anyway. I will come to Hangzhou tomorrow to hang out with you, and then return to Nanjing after the Spring Festival."

The next day, Meng Ping actually came. With so many people gathered together, it was lively.

Especially Wenwen and Qianqian, when they saw Liu Ligan, they teased him, do you want to relive their old dreams? Shall we tell you the room number of International Building?

Liu Ligan looked at Tan Shuzhen who was not far away and smiled. Tan Shuzhen pretended not to hear what they were saying.

Zhang Chen asked Meng Ping, are you really closing?

Meng Ping said that this person is idle, and it seems that the more idle he is, the less motivated he is to fight. Now he is a little scared when he thinks about doing things.

Then just rest, being able to do nothing is also a state. Zhang Chen smiled.

Before Han Emperor Liu Bang and Lao Tan left, of course they had to get together once, and they still put them in the big box in Tianxiang Tower. Wu Zhaohui, Wei Wenfang, Qu Tianlin and Xiao An also came. Zhang Chen and He Hongmei were sitting there. Xiao Zhao's car went there.

Tan Shuzhen was driving, and Liu Ligan wanted to sit in the passenger seat, but Wenwen and Qianqian held him back. The two people had to pull him to the back seat, sandwiching him in the middle, and kept rubbing him, causing Liu Ligan to Her face turned red, and Wenwen shouted, Mr. Tan, Mr. Tan, look, this man can actually blush.

Tan Shuzhen looked in the rearview mirror. Sure enough, Tan Shuzhen smiled and shook her head.

Liu Ligan cursed at Wenwen: "Have you been so fucked up by a bodybuilder that your brain is disabled?"

"What kind of bodybuilder?" Qianqian said, "Wenwen is currently playing football or the national team."

"No wonder, I get stinky feet every day, not only 250, but 250." Liu Ligan laughed.

Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao and He Hongmei got out of the car and walked to the lobby on the first floor of Tianxiang Building. They unexpectedly met Lao Ni with his assistant and five people from his financial business department.

The Asian financial crisis is almost over. They have made a lot of money during this crisis. The New Year is about to come. Of course, Lao Ni will reward the entire financial business department and give everyone a bank card with different amounts in it.

At first sight, Zhang Chen and Chen Yaqin were stunned for a moment, and then they came to their senses. Chen Yaqin and Zhang Chen smiled and said, "Hello!"

Zhang Chen also said hello to Chen Yaqin. Xiao Zhao immediately understood who this woman was. She smiled and nodded to Chen Yaqin.

Liu Ligan, Tan Shuzhen and Wenwen Qianqian came in from outside, and everyone called together. When Liu Ligan asked, by coincidence, Lao Ni and the others were in the box next to them.

Let's go upstairs together.

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