wild 1995

Chapter 62 Choice
The Computer Department of Yunda University is very small, with only 3 classes and 32 students in each class. Among them, only Di Ye and Shi Yucheng are natives of Yuncheng. The others are from all over the country.

"Di Ye, let's start a game of Fighting the Landlord quickly, and let you see my strength after painstakingly training during the Spring Festival."

"Su Zhaonian, Di Ye is the founder of Doudizhu, you dare to provoke him, now you know what it means to be self-inflicted?"

"Zhu Zichun, don't make sarcastic remarks, hurry up and come to the rescue..."

Di Ye played a few rounds of poker in the dormitory. While connecting with his classmates, he asked them where they would go after graduation. It turned out that most of them had already signed work contracts and made plans for internships. Only a few students with poor grades were still waiting for school assignments.

It was only in 1996 that domestic colleges and universities completely abolished the allocation policy, but in 1995, self-selection of careers became very popular, especially for students of computer science, a popular and scarce major. When Di Ye heard that Zhu Zichun hadn't signed a work contract, he was a little surprised and asked: "Your grades are good. There should be many companies rushing to get it. Why wait for the school to allocate it?"

"I'm not waiting for assignment. I just want to find a job I like. Going to work in a state-owned enterprise or a public institution is too boring and not interesting."

"What kind of work do you like?"

"Make games. I already found them during the winter vacation. After graduation, I will go to a software company in Beijing to develop computer games."

Di Ye admired Zhu Zichun's wise choice very much, and reminded: "The domestic computer game market is currently blank, and you must be prepared to eat dirt for a long time."

"Is it suffering?"

"No, just eat soil, the soil of Guanyin soil. If you want to make games, you won't even have to eat instant noodles in the next few years. You can only eat Guanyin soil every day."

Everyone burst into laughter, and Zhu Zichun himself laughed too, saying: "I wanted to do video games, so I enrolled in the major of computer science. I have to try it anyway. If it doesn't work, I'll switch to something else."

A classmate who stood by and watched them playing cards was a little curious and asked, "I have never seen a game company come to the school to recruit. How did you find this job?"

"I went to the editorial department of "GAME Concentration Camp" during the winter vacation. The editor-in-chief said that the investors of the magazine were planning to start a software company specializing in video games, and they recommended me."

"I bought a copy of "GAME Concentration Camp" before, and it's pretty good."

"I bought it too. If it was made by this magazine, it should have some strength."

Di Ye didn't know much about game magazines in the 90s. Seeing that some of his classmates liked them very much, he gave up the position of playing cards to others. He found an old issue from November 1994 and looked through it. He found that the real name of the magazine was "Video Game Software".

However, in terms of the bleak domestic video game environment in the 90s, this magazine has done a good job, and it is also very sincere. In November, this issue also published a special article called "11 Fighting Game Frenzy", which introduced and summarized the top 94 fighting games in 1994.

Di Ye has a lot of ideas about video games, but he doesn't plan to make a fuss about it now. While flipping through the magazine, he asked, "Zhu Zichun, you just said that the investor of this magazine is going to start a software company, but it hasn't started yet, right?"

"Not yet, but it's coming soon, they let me go to practice next month."

Su Zhaonian and Zhu Zichun live in bunk beds, and they usually have the best relationship. Hearing this, he reminded him: "Be careful of being deceived."

"I won't be deceived. I met with the general manager of the investor. They got 100 million investment from the American Pacific Technology Venture Fund. The Beijing Science and Technology Commission invested 100 million, and I invested 200 million. This amount of money is enough to make one or two games."

Seeing Zhu Zichun's confident look, Di Ye couldn't help rubbing his forehead.

The toy browser he wrote earlier was modeled after Netscape's Navigator 0.9, which was derived from Mosaic.

Mosaic is the world's first successful browser. Like HTTPd, it also comes from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in the United States. It was developed by Mark Anderson and Eric Bina. The source code is only 9000 lines, and it is no problem to write it by one person.

However, if CSS, Javascript, Dom and other future new technologies are added to the browser, the amount of code will skyrocket, and one person can break his hand by typing on the keyboard. IE had millions of lines of code as early as 2000, and the code amount of Firefox and Chrome has been measured in units of "tens of millions of lines" since 2010.

So when Di Ye raised the conditions with Dean Fei yesterday, he said that he wanted to go to Pengcheng to develop a browser, but he didn't go alone, but invited a few students to form a team with his own money, so that he could allocate unimportant projects and improve R&D efficiency.

Zhu Zichun has a strong learning ability. He usually only listens carefully during class, never does self-study after class, and doesn't review much before exams, but he can get [-] to [-] points every time in the exam. He has a gentle personality and concentrates on doing things. He is an ideal assistant.

But now that he has his own career plan, Di Ye can't force it, so he turned his target to Su Zhaonian. Although this guy has average learning ability, he has an outgoing personality and good social skills. He can help share a lot of organizational work.

Just when Di Ye was about to ask about Su Zhaonian's internship plan, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a bag carrying a laptop computer passing by the door of the dormitory, so he threw the magazine away, chased him out and said, "Hey! Shi Yucheng, we agreed to study audio software together during the winter vacation. Why didn't you come to me once?"

After a winter vacation, Shi Yucheng seems to have gained weight a bit, not as thin as before, but as always arrogant, he raised his head and said: "Why should I look for you? You are looking for me."

"Do you want to taste the taste of choking again?"

Shi Yucheng broke his defense in an instant, and argued: "I sent you 3 BB machine messages during the winter vacation, but you didn't reply to me once, and I don't know which building your house is in. How can I find you?"

Di Ye thought it was too troublesome to use the BB machine. Ever since he had a mobile phone, he removed the battery and left it at home to eat ashes. He apologized and asked, "What have you been up to during the winter vacation?"

"I helped my dad write an accounting software for their factory."

"Oh, amazing! I'm also planning to write an accounting software recently, tell me about it..."

Di Ye and Shi Yucheng chatted in the corridor for a while, and found that his winter vacation life was very fulfilling. He not only wrote the software by hand, but also found a tutor for oral English to prepare for the internship at IBM headquarters.

"Have you set a specific time for your internship?"

"It's fixed, depart from Pujiang on March 3, and return to China from New York on the 8."

Although this guy has a bad personality and is a failure in life, he loves programming and is very qualified to be a squeezed code farmer. So Di Ye said: "I am also planning to go to the United States in March. Maybe I will take the same plane then."

Shi Yucheng was very surprised, and said: "The internship quota has been reported to the IBM headquarters, and now they have started to apply for a visa, and there is no way to change it. How do you go to the United States?"

Di Ye took the information given by Liu Shaosong last night as a tiger skin, and said, "It has nothing to do with IBM. Cisco is planning to sponsor me to study at Stanford. I plan to go there in March to see the school environment, and visit Silicon Valley by the way."

Upon hearing this, Shi Yucheng immediately showed deep jealousy in his eyes, and asked, "Why does Cisco sponsor you to study at Stanford?"

"Because I wrote a world-class browser program during the winter vacation. You probably haven't seen a browser before. Let me explain to you..."

"Isn't it just a program for browsing the web, what's there to brag about! I used it in Hong Kong last summer, nothing special."

At this time, Su Zhaonian ran out of the dormitory, held up his big brother and said, "Di Ye, Teacher Liu is looking for you."

Di Ye answered the phone in front of Shi Yucheng, and repeated Liu Shaosong's words intentionally or unintentionally. Shi Yucheng also eavesdropped blatantly, but was confused by high-level vocabulary such as "open source", "Journal of Computer Science", "world advanced level", and "filling the gap in the country".

"Ms. Liu asked me to go to the computer room in the afternoon and demonstrate my graduation project and the source code of the browser to President Song. Are you interested? If you are interested, you can go and see. I happen to lack a supporting role that can set off a brilliant image."

"go away!"

　There have been a lot of things in the past two days, and I can only code after 9 o'clock in the evening, so I have to make up slowly, sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)