Ten Years Against the Current of Rebirth

In December in Shanghai, after the cold front passed through, the temperature dropped to single digits.

Xue Weiqiang, the squad leader of Class 18 of the School of Electrical Engineering, climbed down from the bed in the dormitory after taking a nap, changed into decent casual clothes, looked at the time, and sent a WeChat message to his girlfriend Wang Jiaxin.

[Xue Weiqiang]: There is still more than half an hour before the open class. How about we go over and grab a seat first?

[Wang Jiaxin]: I’m so sleepy, I want to sleep a little longer.

[Xue Weiqiang]: Okay, I'll go over and grab a seat for you first. Remember not to be late.

[Wang Jiaxin]: Okay~Thank you, husband~

Looking at the message from his girlfriend on WeChat, Xue Weiqiang's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly felt comfortable. He said to his roommate Wang Jian, "I'm going to Principal Mei's open class, are you going?"

"What am I going to do? It's boring." Wang Jian shook his head repeatedly, "I still have to eat your and sister-in-law's dog food. I'm not that stupid."

"Haha." Xue Weiqiang smiled and said nothing more. After tidying up, he went out and walked towards Hall 1 of the Administration Building where the open class was held.

On the way, he was bored and opened WeChat to see if Wang Jiaxin had sent any new messages, but there was no news.

As a result, a few more hot news items on WeChat were pushed to him.

For example, [college students’ views on love—when your girlfriend does these things, it means she really loves you]

[What are the differences between university monitors and high school monitors? There are very few monitors who can do these things]

[Template for outstanding college students—Have you done all of the following?]

In addition, there is also a soft article mixed in [The proportion of Shanghai college students ordering takeout has increased rapidly. Is the takeout trend among young people coming?]

In this soft article, we first give an objective and three-dimensional introduction to the comparison of the food delivery industry before and now, and by the way, we mention the professionalism and advantages of the food delivery platform.

After reading this soft article about takeout, you can also get a discounted set of pork chop rice for two people at the bottom.

However, Xue Weiqiang usually only orders takeout when he is busy. If he goes out with his girlfriend, he will definitely not order takeout.

Then give the coupon to Wang Jiaxin and see if she wants to order it with her roommate. If not, give it to her roommate.

Thinking about this, Xue Weiqiang finished reading the four push articles and walked to the entrance of the administration building.

At this time, a vertical open course poster has been placed next to the door. As academician Mei Hongmei, who was awarded the academician of the Academy of Sciences for his achievements in the field of computer software, he serves as the vice president of Min University this time. He comes here to offer open courses, which can be regarded as a close relationship with Min University.

The older classmates know each other.

On the poster is a half-length photo of Mei Hong himself, with a brief description of Academician Mei's life and achievements next to it. Below is a logo of Eat.me takeaway, indicating that this open class is sponsored by Eat.me.

As the squad leader of Class 8, Xue Weiqiang naturally knew that Zhang Nong and the others were promoting this take-out platform.

However, he didn’t know that this was a company founded by Xu Xing, and he thought that Zhang Nong and others had joined the Chime platform, so it was promoted within the school.

Just like the stores in schools that send and receive express delivery, the students in the school also contract express delivery points from the express delivery company and rely on this to make money.

Xue Weiqiang felt that it was a waste of time for Zhang Nong and others to do this.

He knew a little about Zhang Nong's situation. If his family was in trouble, it would be understandable to work part-time. However, Lu Pengyou and Jian Jiashu just joined in the fun and often took time off from school. Xue Weiqiang felt it was a bit much.

If it weren't for Wu Zhiguo's support and convenience every time he issued a leave note, Xue Weiqiang would have warned them to pay attention to their studies.

This time, Xue Weiqiang was a little surprised when he saw the logo of Eat Me on the poster, but he didn't pay too much attention. He followed the people in front of him and walked into the administration building and found the location of Hall 1.

Although he had arrived about half an hour early, this was an open class for academicians after all, and there were still credits to be earned, so many people had already arrived early to grab seats.

Xue Weiqiang glanced over and saw that about half of the seats were already occupied, so he quickly found an empty seat to sit down, and used the backpack he brought to occupy the seat next to him.

After confirming the location of the seat, Xue Weiqiang took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Wang Jiaxin.

[Xue Weiqiang]: I have reserved a seat for you in the third row on the left side of the entrance.

[Wang Jiaxin]: Yeah, I'll be there in a minute.

After chatting with his girlfriend, Xue Weiqiang sat in his seat with nothing to do. He simply opened WeChat and looked at the game center.

It turned out that in addition to the previous three games, WeChat added two new games today, one called Exciting Skiing and the other called High-Speed ​​Rail Parkour.

After habitually choosing to download, Xue Weiqiang was not very interested in this high-speed rail parkour, so he clicked on the exciting skiing, and then fell into it unknowingly.

Although it is still a 2D horizontal parkour game, it is different from the pure horizontal racing of Happy Cool Run. The terrain of the exciting skiing map is undulating, and the character controlled by the player will keep sliding on the snow until

Until he is caught up by the avalanche behind him.

This exciting skiing inherits the consistent high-end attributes of parkour games. Xue Weiqiang simply played a few games, and fifteen minutes passed.

When a familiar voice came to his ears, Xue Weiqiang came back to his senses, looked up and found that it was Xu Xing.

"Is there anyone here?" Xu Xing pointed to the empty seat next to the seat where Xue Weiqiang put his backpack.

"No." Xue Weiqiang shook his head subconsciously, but when he was about to refuse, Xu Xing had already sat down, but there was no valid reason for him to refuse, after all, the empty seat was there.

So he thought about it and simply stood up, picked up his backpack, and tried to find a place farther away from this guy.

As a result, the place was almost full at this time. Although some empty seats could be seen here and there, Xue Weiqiang was not sure if there were anyone in those seats.

If Wang Jiaxin didn't get a new seat when she came over, it would be a bit of a loss.

So Xue Weiqiang simply sat down next to Xu Xing, and then put his backpack on his original seat to avoid Wang Jiaxin being sandwiched between the two of them.

Then Xue Weiqiang ignored Xu Xing and continued to take out his mobile phone to play exciting skiing. The new game he had just started was still very attractive.

Xu Xing, who was standing by, was a little surprised to see him suddenly sitting next to him. Then he saw him taking out his mobile phone to play a new game that his company had just launched, and his expression couldn't help but become even weirder.

"Squad leader, what kind of game is this?" Xu Xing came over shamelessly, with a curious expression on his face, "Is it a parkour game produced by Tengxin?"

"What is it made by Tengxin?" Xue Weiqiang heard what he said and immediately said dissatisfied, "What else can Tengxin do besides plagiarism? This is a parkour mobile game just released by Tianshu Games, and it is much better than Tengxin.

"

Hearing Xue Weiqiang's compliments, Xu Xing was very impressed and nodded in agreement: "Is it true? This game has just been launched? I didn't seem to see this game in WeChat's game center yesterday."

"Probably." Xue Weiqiang nodded in response while operating, but because he was distracted from communicating with him, he accidentally fell on the snow and was directly covered by the avalanche.

The settlement page pops up on the screen, and then a pop-up window for the first deposit activity pops up.

Xu Xing saw Xue Weiqiang about to press the cross, so he pretended to be casual and said: "Squad leader, why don't you top up money to buy a skin? A free skin for the first top-up of six yuan is pretty cheap, right?"

"How much money do you need to play games?" Xue Weiqiang curled his lips.

Now Xu Xing was a little dissatisfied. It turned out that he was still a prostitute for free.

"Didn't the squad leader scold Tengxin just now? If you don't give Tianshu Games money to encourage him, how will he develop games that challenge Tengxin in the future? He will be poor without money."

"If you have money, go ahead and replenish it." Xue Weiqiang was a little embarrassed by what he said, and immediately retorted, "I can play his game, which is already a gift of face."

Xu Xing: "..."

Good guy, I am actually a little speechless.

After confirming that their squad leader was an invincible prostitute, Xu Xing didn't have much thought to continue talking to him, and simply looked down at his phone.

When there were still two or three minutes before the open class started, Wang Jiaxin finally arrived belatedly and found Xue Weiqiang. As soon as she said hello to Xue Weiqiang and wanted to sit down, she discovered that Xu Xing was still sitting next to her.

"Xu Xing is here too? What a coincidence."

Looking up and seeing Wang Jiaxin, Xu Xing just nodded as a greeting, then lowered his head to look at his phone and ignored her.

Xue Weiqiang didn't want his girlfriend to have too much interaction with Xu Xing, but he was a little dissatisfied when he saw Xu Xing's indifferent attitude, but he couldn't say anything more, so he could only hold Wang Jiaxin's hand and ask her to sit down.

Because she arrived late, Wang Jiaxin did not have any chance to talk to her. Soon, the open class began.

On the front stage, the host took the stage first. After giving a speech, he solemnly invited today's protagonist, Mei Hong, an academician from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and who has just become the vice president of Min University.

Mei Hong is dressed very simply, a blue and white vertical striped shirt, a pair of loose trousers, and his hair is half black and half white. He is under fifty years old, and is still relatively young among the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

After walking onto the stage, facing the gazes of hundreds of people in Hall 1, Mei Hong stood behind the podium with a smile and greeted everyone in an orderly manner.

"Hello fellow Min University students."

"I'm glad to see you here and have a pleasant exchange."

"I am 49 years old this year, I will be 50 soon, and I have spent half a century in this world."

"If I had been standing in this place thirty years ago at the age of 20, I would definitely be at a loss."

"Just the computer in front of me and the big screen behind me make me feel like I'm in a dream, as if I'm in a future science fiction world."

"I don't know if you still remember that when I was a child, I was in elementary school or junior high school. At that time, the teachers didn't know how to use computers in class, and there were no PPTs."

"Lectures only use a blackboard and textbooks. Occasionally, if I need to lecture on a topic, the teacher will use a projector."

"But in the next few years, teachers began to use computers without realizing it, and handouts became PPT formats and appeared on white curtains."

"The development of computers and the Internet has penetrated into people's lives and continued to deepen over time."

"Our generation was once very far away from the Internet. Looking at today's era, it seems like we are watching a science fiction movie."

"And for your generation, as they have experienced the process of growing up from mobile phones to smartphones, they will also be amazed by the changes in mobile phones."

"But when you start a family, start a business, and have children, your children's generation will already be bathed in a world where they have access to smartphones and the Internet as soon as they are born."

"At that time, the new generation may never be able to imagine what kind of life their parents and ancestors lived before the Internet."

"Well, the theme of my open class today is - looking back at the past of computers and looking forward to the future of the Internet."

…

As a newly elected academician in the past two years, Mei Hong has participated in and chaired a number of national-level computer engineering and software research and development projects, and has made very significant contributions, especially in software development in the industrial field.

However, what he gave today was only lecture notes for an open class, so it did not involve very complicated computer engineering. After all, in addition to students from the School of Electronic Engineering, students from other departments also came to attend his class.

Taking into account the difference in the number of people and knowledge, Mei Hong tried his best to explain in simple terms, starting from the origin of computers, and briefly but efficiently told the process of computer development from the early days to the beginning of the century.

Then it went from the Internet wave at the beginning of the century to the PC era before 2012. In just half an hour, a lot of essence was condensed, giving the students present a more macro understanding of the development process of computers.

Although he had studied it in school and watched various popular science articles and videos in his previous life, Xu Xing understood everything Mei Hong said very well. Even the broader perspective in the next ten years allowed him to draw parallels and think of many other perspectives.

something.

But Academician Mei's own level is there, even Xu Xing has gained some knowledge.

After introducing the past development history of computers, Mei Hong also smoothly jumped to the second half of today's open class topic.

"Now, the emergence of smartphones has begun to gradually break the dilemma that the PC could not completely solve in the past - the mobility of the Internet."

"In the past, computers were very bulky things. Even though they gradually became lighter and even had products like laptops, they were still inconvenient for people to use the Internet anytime and anywhere."

"Smartphones have changed this situation."

"Most of the hundreds of students here should already have smartphones and have felt the changes."

"Have any classmates volunteered to share with you what changes you think smartphones will bring to society and life?"

Students who are still studying for undergraduates may have some stage fright, but today there are also many students who are studying for graduate school or Ph.D., and there are even several doctoral students led by Mei Hong himself.

In order to leave a good impression on Meihong, many graduate students or those interested in applying for graduate school raised their hands.

Mei Hong casually clicked on one, and the host on the side immediately sent it over with a microphone.

Then, Xu Xing, who was sitting on the seat next to him, looked at the graduate student sitting on the other side of him and stood up, took the microphone and said:

"Hello Academician Mei, I personally think that a smartphone is equivalent to a mini computer."

"Some relatively simple functions can be copied from the computer to the mobile phone for operation, which greatly facilitates the user experience."

"But as of now, it seems that smartphones rely on the network provided by 3G base stations. Compared with computers that use network cables and rely on bandwidth, the network speed is very different."

"So in my opinion, smartphones are limited by network speed. Unless there is a major expansion in this area, the Internet can only become an expansion unit of computers. The main force of Internet use is still computers.

"

Mei Hong listened to his speech and did not express any opinions. He just smiled and nodded: "Well, that's very good. Do any other students have any other opinions? Come on, this classmate will tell you."

Mei Hong named several students one after another to stand up and express their opinions. Some were not optimistic about smartphones, some were optimistic, and some were more neutral. They felt that mobile Internet has development potential, but it still depends on the subsequent development of 4G.

After listening to the speeches of these students, Mei Hong nodded with satisfaction, returned to his own rhythm, and said slowly:

"What everyone said makes sense."

"However, before I express my opinion, there is another classmate whose opinion I am quite curious about."

"After I recently came to the Min University campus, I came across a takeout platform called Chime. You can order takeout directly on the mobile APP and wait for the food to be delivered to your door while sitting in the office. It is very convenient."

"And coincidentally, I heard that the take-out platform E-Me is the entrepreneurial project of our Min University students, and the founder should also be here today."

"So I really want to hear what this classmate thinks about the future development of the Internet after he started his own Internet-related entrepreneurial project."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Xing, who was sitting in his seat, blinked and felt helpless.

How come it feels like I didn’t raise my hand in class, but ended up being called upon by the teacher to answer a question...