Rebirth of the Industrial Internet

The goblin elder in "World of Warcraft" said: "Time is money!"; in the Chinese server, this line is translated as "Time is money, my friend!" The old and urgent tone made many players sigh.

How many Warcraft people’s youth and memories!

Early the next morning, Sun Buqi changed his biological clock and did not go to the campus to read English early. Instead, while others were sleeping soundly, he turned on his computer to check the news about "World of Warcraft". Unexpectedly, there was little news about World of Warcraft on the Internet.

Recently, a poster has been complaining on the forum, "Glass slag keeps bouncing tickets, today comes tomorrow, there are so many tomorrows? Do you want my grandson to burn the game to me?"

The sporadic followers below continue to explain, to clear the ground for the production company, "Blizzard's attitude of striving for excellence in making games has earned it the reputation of "Blizzard products must be high-quality products." I suggest everyone wait patiently. There will be bread.

There will be milk too!”

Below is a neat queue, with people from different accounts constantly swiping the screen, "Produced by Blizzard, it must be a high-quality product!".

Sun Buqi was unwilling to return without success, and did not miss any link or information on the hyperlink. Finally, in the corner of the post, in an inconspicuous place, he found the QQ group number of the World of Warcraft fan group.

Fortunately, Sun Buqi used to occasionally go to the crooked Pijikik Industrial Workshop, so he would not be turned off by the awkward web design of 2004 with layers of content stacked on top of each other.

In 2017, domestic web technology has developed for several generations, and the forum layout looks neat and elegant; the Wanwan forum remains unchanged, just like when it was first born in 2000, maintaining the layout and atmosphere of more than ten years, which is very

Suitable for retirement and nostalgia.

After Sun Buqi complained about the current web design, after constant application and verification, he was able to join the QQ group left in the post. There were only three or two kittens in the group, and the avatars were all gray.

He sent private messages to inquire one by one, only to realize that he was wrong: fans of "World of Warcraft" are basically foreign students. They are accustomed to using the international version of ICQ instead of the QQ of Penguin Empire in the future.

In 1996, three Israelis, Visig, Vardy and Goldfinger, got together and decided to develop a software that enables people to communicate quickly and directly on the Internet.

They named the new software ICQ, which means "I SEEK YOU". ICQ supports online chatting, sending messages, transferring files and other functions, becoming the world's first online online contact tool.

Ma Huateng's version of QQ was formerly OICQ. It was first launched in March 1999. It was only released domestically and had only a few hundred thousand users. He didn't have enough confidence in QQ and wanted to take advantage of it. He planned to sell it for 1 million yuan.

To the big boss at the time - Sohu Zhang Chaoyang.

Zhang Chaoyang looked down on the newly born QQ, thinking that such a simple and crude communication tool could be done by himself in two weeks with a few people. He lowered the price to 600,000, but Mr. Ma felt that the price was too low: his own bottom line

It's 1 million. 600,000 is not enough for the development team.

Because of the price difference of 400,000 yuan, Zhang Chaoyang missed QQ. After this matter came to an end, QQ's development was still difficult. The number of registrations and users increased slowly, and the market was tepid.

The founding team gave up the idea of ​​making a quick profit and put more energy into QQ. In order to increase the stickiness of QQ users, they constantly "learned" and "copied" the functions of other similar software, slowly accumulated customers, and optimized

QQ content and design.

In October 2004, Sun Buqi temporarily applied for a QQ with only eight digits. Of course, if he spent more time and carefully refreshed it, it was possible to get a seven-digit QQ. It is said that if he used an overseas virtual website, he could get a seven-digit QQ.

The probability of numbers is greatly increased.

When Sun Buqi saw the new QQ number, he even thought of hoarding a batch of beautiful QQ accounts; the income from these numbers in ten years will be no lower than the income from hoarding land and real estate speculation! The important thing is to apply for a QQ account with zero investment

, there is no need to fill in any information!

Sun Buqi followed the guidance of his QQ group companions and registered an international version of ICQ number. Compared with the commonly used QQ, ICQ has fewer functions and is bloated. No wonder it will be defeated in the competition with TM users in the future.

After joining the ICQ group, Sun Buqi realized that he had made a false alarm. Instead of getting up early, he made it to a late gathering:

The American and European servers of "World of Warcraft" are not open to the public. Only the legendary closed beta players have released some screenshots of the game sporadically. The other people are very angry and are gearing up to wait for the open beta of the game in November.

The soldiers and horses have not yet been moved, but the food and grass have to go first. If Chinese players want to play the American version of "World of Warcraft", there are still several thresholds. The first is the account issue. New players need to purchase a CDK to register for Battle.net, and a US credit card is required to purchase the CDK;

Secondly, if players want to play "World of Warcraft", their computer hardware must keep up. Nowadays, the mainstream 3D games "Fantasy Westward Journey", "Westward Journey" and "Legend" do not require independent graphics cards at all. The functions of the graphics card included with the motherboard are more than enough.

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"World of Warcraft" not only has high requirements for graphics cards, but also requires larger memory. Players need to add additional memory modules.

Before "World of Warcraft" entered the mainland market, professional computer websites such as "Pacific Computer Network" began to popularize computer knowledge to players, recommended various motherboards, graphics cards and memory for playing games, and even listed more than a dozen sets.

Configuration table.

"World of Warcraft" is a phenomenon-level game. Unlike the stick-and-pickle games "Paradise" and "Miracle", which are constantly grinding, hacking, hacking, and upgrading, they set a level cap. The game weakens the importance of equipment and emphasizes the cooperation of small teams.

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The launch of the game in mainland China has objectively promoted the upgrading of computers in Internet cafes.

Although the new machine in the Internet cafe was only purchased for three or two years, it was already overwhelmed and could not play new games smoothly. In order to attract players, the Internet cafe owner had to upgrade the hardware just to play the game "World of Warcraft".

Chen Zhiyong got up to go to the bathroom and accidentally saw a faint blue light emitting from the monitor. He saw Sun Buqi facing the monitor and writing and drawing on his notebook, seemingly gaining something.

He came closer to the screen and asked curiously, "Sandong, you work too hard! You actually used your energy in class to play games. My brother is optimistic about you, and I wish you can get the dragon-slaying sword as soon as possible..."

Sun Buqi heard the ridicule from his roommate who refused to get out of bed without letting the sun shine on his buttocks, so he continued to record useful information.

He didn't even raise his head and asked angrily, "When will you become a tongue-tied woman? You'd better go back to bed and sleep. Be careful not to get enough sleep and you may get acne on your face..."

Chen Zhiyong belongs to a group of people who love beauty. He never leaves his hand with a mirror and a comb. He has five or six kinds of facial cleansers to wash his face. He does not wash his hair every day and never leaves the dormitory. He must sleep for beauty sleep every day and maintain at least ten hours of sleep.

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He pointed his middle finger at Sun Buqi and threatened: "You mother-in-law, you are so arrogant! Be careful if you anger me, I won't let you play with my computer!" Chen Zhiyong is a typical person who has a sharp mouth and a soft heart.

Always offend people.

Sun Buqi laughed and scolded, "Be careful, I'll record the audio and relay the bad words you just said to your classmate Xiaojiao!"

Chen Zhiyong had a crush on his classmate Ye Xiaojiao for four years, but he did not dare to confess his feelings until graduation. When drinking the graduation wine, he burst into tears and revealed his unspeakable secret: his parents only allowed him to marry a Shunde local!

Sun Buqi didn't say anything, but he was secretly anxious in his heart, secretly calculating whether the money in his wallet could meet the needs of playing the World of Warcraft game.

The cost of creating a new account is US$100, plus a monthly card of US$18. In 2004, the exchange rate between the US dollar and the RMB was 8. The initial investment was one thousand RMB. If the Internet speed is not good,

You also need to buy a network accelerator, which is additional money.

But for the bright future of "one gold coin sold for one dollar", all these money are necessities. If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools and sharpen his knife to chop wood. This is the only way to comfort and numb yourself.

The above is just the money for software, hardware has not been taken into consideration.

In 2005, if you configure a computer that can play "World of Warcraft" smoothly, you will need at least 8,000 yuan; to play large-scale online games, of course you cannot use the campus network that is as slow as a snail, and you have to pull a separate network cable, which costs more than 1,000 yuan.

expenditures.

Sun Buqi touched his wallet and counted his property, which was less than six thousand yuan.

In mid-January, the school will issue scholarships for the freshman year. The first-class scholarship is only 500 yuan, plus the illusory national first-class scholarship of 8,000 yuan, which will definitely meet the needs of the game, but that will have to wait until next year.

Time is money, I am a friend!

Sun Buqi cannot wait until next year, when everything is ready and only needs the east wind, to enter "Warcraft Time".

At that time, people who farmed gold coins were called "gold coin farmers", and Wai Guoren believed that they were destroyers of the game. Players in the national server were reported at any time and threatened with being banned by the GM. The gold coins depreciated even more, which was not conducive to the third game.

The accumulation of a pot of gold.

Chinese NBA star Yao Ming is a loyal player of "World of Warcraft". After training during the day, he would stay in his dormitory to play games at night, and even dragged his Rockets teammates into the World of Warcraft pit.

The hunter character he plays has sharp controls, good equipment, and good reflexes and coordination as a professional athlete, but he is a bit "clueless" in the game.

If you can't beat the opponent in basketball, you can only take revenge in the game. In order to enter the game as soon as possible, get the lead in equipment, and realize the dream of beating Yao Ming in the game, Sun Buqi had to find another way.

He focused his bad thoughts on the upcoming "First Campus CS Competition" and pretended in his heart: Junior students, for the sake of the alliance, I will let you down! (To be continued)