Courtyard light

Chapter 830 Christmas Activities

William is a junior student at Cambridge University. Several classmates in William’s dormitory raised funds to buy a computer and then installed an Internet cable.

Several students drew lots to allocate time for surfing the Internet.

At midnight on December 12, William logged into the World of Warcraft text interactive game.

William is already level 9, and he plans to reach level 10 during Christmas.

However, when I opened the game, I found that the game was being upgraded.

The upgrade lasted for a full forty minutes, but William was not idle during this period, as he was arguing with others on the forum.

William is a real Londoner, and some people on the forum have denigrated London's food.

Although William knew that the food in London was shit, he would never allow others to say it.

A big fight often breaks out on a forum because of an irrelevant remark.

The forums nowadays are a bit like watching a live broadcast where the comments are constantly refreshing.

So William stared at the forum with his eyes and typed blindly with his hands, typing out a series of "*** you mother" and so on. There was no such thing as harmony on the Internet at that time.

It is also filled with swear words like shit and bastard.

After the update was completed, William quickly entered the game. With his clever choice, William successfully killed a murloc!
Congratulations to the player for obtaining a fish scale!
Congratulations to the player for obtaining a pearl!
Congratulations to the player for obtaining the Black Iron Christmas Treasure Chest!

William’s eyes widened when he saw the black iron Christmas treasure chest appearing behind him.

Do you want to open the Black Iron Christmas Treasure Chest? Inside is the gift from Santa Claus for everyone!
William sent this message when he saw the game.

William quickly chose to open it.

Congratulations to the player for obtaining a green quality dagger.

The information also carries the attributes of a dagger.

William's eyes widened and he almost cheered, but when he saw his roommate lying dead, he quickly shut his mouth.

Then choose to equip the dagger!

The green quality dagger is indeed more powerful than the white dagger in my hand.

However, the second fishman did not give the Christmas treasure chest.

Of course William knew that it was impossible to give it to every monster.

Soon William encountered an elite murloc. In the past, William would run away quickly when he encountered this kind of situation, because the elite murloc would run away after killing him and he would not be able to catch up.

However, he was equipped with a dagger with higher attack power, so William gave it a try.

William looked at the battle information above, which showed the health of both sides.

When the last elite murloc was about to run away, William chose to charge.

Congratulations to the player for killing the elite murloc!
Congratulations to the player for obtaining two scales!

Congratulations to the player for obtaining two big pearls!
Congratulations to the player for obtaining a pair of fish scale leather boots (green quality!)
Congratulations to the player for winning the Silver Christmas Treasure Chest!

When William excitedly opened the treasure chest, he found a piece of fish scale leather armor (chest armor) (blue quality!)
William couldn't hold back any longer and shouted excitedly, because with such blue equipment, he was not afraid of the murlocs here at all. The main thing was that these murlocs sometimes came in groups of three or two.

"William, you bastard, stop making noise!"

"William, fuck you!"

William didn't care at all about his roommate's abuse and anger.

"I got a Christmas treasure chest today, and it gave me a blue-quality equipment, and it's a breastplate!" William shouted excitedly.

When they heard this, they immediately stood up and went to the computer.

"Woc!"

"Christmas treasure chest?"

"Have a look at the forum!"

The forum is in a state of chaos right now, causing the refresh speed to be a bit slow.

"Haha, I passed by and actually found a Christmas treasure chest and opened it and found 15 copper coins!"

"I defeated a wild boar leader, and a golden treasure chest dropped, and I got golden equipment, and it was a very rare necklace!" This person also posted a message.

This is a pig tooth necklace, it has three attributes: increase attack speed! Increase attack power! And then increase physical fitness!

Generally speaking, one attribute is green, two attributes are blue, and three attributes are gold.

"The text interactive game is stuck!"

"My text-based interactive game is offline!"

"Hurry up and call the official, isn't this a waste of time?" Soon someone on the forum reported that the text interactive game was offline.

The servers for the text interactive game are overwhelmed, and additional servers are being temporarily added.

The news of the Christmas treasure chest dropping from the text interactive game has spread everywhere, and anyone with a computer and an internet connection has started to go online.

Those who don’t have a computer will rush to the Internet cafe, just like William’s roommate, who immediately called the Internet cafe owner and didn’t even bother to wait for William’s computer.

When Liu Hai learned about this, he looked at the time and it was just past 11 o'clock, while it was now past 3 o'clock in the morning in London.

The official of the text interactive game quickly responded to the players' message, because the number of people for this event was underestimated, which caused the server to crash, so the Christmas event was extended from one day to three days to compensate the game players.

And each game player will be compensated with 50 copper coins.

When game players saw the official answer from the game, they applauded and cheered.

At 4:30 in the morning in London, the text interactive game could finally continue, and the server addition had been completed.

Then in the morning, a major news broke in the London newspapers: the server of the World of Warcraft interactive text game crashed due to too many people playing the Christmas game!
At noon, the CEO of the World of Warcraft interactive text game apologized to everyone in the news and announced compensation measures. He also revealed that the number of people online at the same time in the World of Warcraft interactive text game has exceeded 60, and the number is still increasing.

And a lot of paying users have been added!
This news has once again put the hot Internet at the center of attention.

The valuation of the World of Warcraft text interactive game company has increased again!

This makes those who want to enter the Internet but have not yet entered the Internet jealous and think that once they enter the Internet, they will definitely succeed with their excellent minds and genius creativity!
This scene has happened in history. The Bald Eagle was booming during the Spring Festival. One Internet company after another became rich, which made many people feel that they just needed to return to China and copy the template of the Bald Eagle.

In fact, the major domestic Internet companies that were able to emerge were all created by that wave of people at that time.

Of course, these people encountered the Internet bubble a few years after they came back.

The same Internet bubble will definitely happen in this time and space, especially after seeing the series of actions of the bald eagle, Liu Hai became more certain.

Even many investors in the Bald Eagle country have come to London to set up companies or invest in other companies.

This resulted in funds flowing out of the Bald Eagle country.

The double loss of talent and funds has also made the Bald Eagle government anxious.

Where is the beacon of the world?
How did he end up in London? This is impossible.

Therefore, the Bald Eagle government has come up with a series of incentive measures to encourage Bald Eagle's private capital to enter the Internet field.

Of course, it is obvious which companies can get these incentives such as subsidies.

The Bald Eagle Telephone Company and other consortiums have established Internet companies one after another. Of course, these companies will not adopt the Internet standards issued by the London Internet Standards Conference.

Instead, they have to start from scratch, because that is the only way to get subsidies.

These newly established companies hype their concepts in newspapers before they even do anything.

The myth of getting rich quickly brought by the Internet has already been realized in London, so these companies are very popular among the public.

At this moment, the bald eagle felt that it had stood up again, because many domestic companies were engaged in the Internet, hardware, and software.

Some companies can even get large amounts of financing just by coming up with a concept.

There is no way around it, now newspapers and media are praising the Internet everywhere.

In fact, these newspaper media have no idea what the core of profit is. They just know that they don’t understand what the other party is saying, and what they say is similar to what happened in London.

Most of the people waving money around don’t understand what the Internet is, but when they see everyone investing, they act as if they will lose $800 million if they don’t invest.

People in London were also relieved to see that Bald Eagle was going to start his own business.

If the shameless bald eagle really joins in, its lighthouse position will be affected.

As long as the bald eagle doesn't come in, then in this Internet circle, London is the undisputed technological beacon. Are you convinced?

Not convinced? Come and disconnect his internet connection for me!

However, most capitalists still pour their funds into Europe because Europe has a complete Internet system and ready-made templates.

The myth of Internet wealth creation officially began. A large amount of hot money flowed into London, and then technology companies emerged like mushrooms after rain.

Xiaobenzi also faced pressure from the bald eagle and said that we also want to join the world Internet standards.

London said it welcomes Xiaobenzi to join.

And in the midst of this hustle and bustle, an inconspicuous piece of news from some Eastern countries did not attract everyone's attention.

That is the C101 twin-engine narrow-body long-range passenger aircraft of some Eastern countries has been officially finalized.

Liu Hai was completely relieved. Although he knew that there shouldn't be any big problems with c101, he was still worried until it was finalized.

This is how research work is. Until the last step, you never know what kind of surprise or shock is waiting for you.

Just like the famous 117, there were no problems in manufacturing, test flying, etc., but once it was put into actual combat: Oh no!
Even the F2020 that was hyped up so much in 35 needs to be taken out for a test drive to know whether it is a mule or a horse.

We have already contacted Europe and are able to obtain European flight permission and airworthiness certificate, but of course we still have to do some superficial work and apply for it.

As for the bald eagle developing his own Internet business, Liu Hai just stood by and watched the joke.

Because the domestic Internet has become a bubble now, today this company can get tens of millions of dollars in financing with just an idea, and tomorrow that company can get millions of dollars in financing with just an idea.

There is no problem for the bald eagle to build its own Internet, but these companies do not exist on the Internet now, so no matter how good the idea is, it will be of no use.

In London, things are more rigorous. First, there is the Software Alliance and then the Security Alliance.

Of course, London’s current Internet bubble is also very high, but at least London has a ready-made Internet and a ready-made profit model.

To put it nicely, Bald Eagle now calls those companies boasting, and to put it bluntly, they are liars.

It’s just like some companies sold the houses when the land was still barren.

而这个时候时间点已经来到了1988年，1988年的除夕是2月16日，今年腊月只有29。

Liu Hai is happy to have a few good things happen to him. After the C101 was finalized, it was officially put into production by Heshun Airlines. Of course, the production line is still being debugged.

It is expected that the first aircraft will be shipped out of the factory in three months. During the testing period, the C101 made more than 500 takeoffs and landings, including more than 80 takeoffs and landings on the plateau alone.

In addition, Dabao and Erbao both have their lovers.

Perhaps it was the marriage of Erbao and Atong that made Dabao and Amin feel a little bit of crisis.

As for the other four, they are still young and there is still time to wait.

The orders for the second generation of Panda computers were very popular, and several Panda computer experience centers were opened in Europe, including London, Paris, etc.

A large number of Panda Generation 1 computers flowed into the second-hand market, which invisibly increased the number of Internet users, because some people did not have money to buy new computers, so they bought second-hand computers.

Moreover, Panda computers are assembled from discrete parts, so they can be easily configured according to the customer's price.

Although the first generation of Panda computers cannot play CS and Plants vs. Zombies games.

But there is absolutely no problem in chatting, making friends, arguing with people on forums, playing text interactive games like World of Warcraft, chess and card games, and block stacking games.

Not to mention using it for office work.

This has led to a surge in the number of appointments made by Internet account opening users!
The entire Internet pie is getting bigger and bigger, and some news media have already established professional news websites.

In mid-January 1988, the Hao1 Navigation website officially began to refresh some simple color pictures.

Behind this is a major upgrade of related hardware facilities.

Of course, the first generation of computers still couldn’t display anything and could only display plain text.

It can be said that in terms of the Internet, the bald eagle has been completely left behind.

Because the bald eagle wants to establish new Internet standards, it has to bypass the current Internet standards.

This is also why those who develop technology first can develop quickly, because they take the fastest path.

Just like climbing a mountain, the one climbing first chooses the best path.

If you don't follow the previous climbing path, you will have to choose another route, which will definitely be more difficult.

The current London international Internet standards certainly have thick patent barriers.

Of course, given the shameless nature of the bald eagle, it may be possible to get around it legally. That is to say, if I copy yours, you can't do anything to me, but you can't copy mine.

Then the hao123 website officially launched color picture advertisements.

Then the valuation of hao123 website rose sharply.

The new Panda operating system adds a new browser with various features such as favorites.

Other software of the Panda 2nd Generation Computer has also been upgraded, and pictures can be posted on the forum, but there is a certain size limit for pictures, and it may take half a day to refresh.

You can now send pictures on chat software, but the picture quality now looks too poor.

However, the chat software still has no profit model, so no capital is optimistic about it.

Now capital is not simply focusing on the number of users, but on the profit model.

The most popular ones are the navigation page website and the World of Warcraft interactive game. Countless institutions are waving money to ask for financing, and the valuations are rising again and again.

"Hey, now let me cut you guys down."

"When real online games come out, text-based interactive games, their valuations will definitely be looked at, and then I will buy back the shares!"

“Wait until the World of Warcraft interactive text game is launched on mobile phones. When everyone thinks the market is back, I will sell all my shares!” Liu Hai had long been prepared to use technology to reap the benefits of European stock investors. Of course, this matter had to be done covertly, and he had to unite with some gentry to exploit those stock investors or other local tycoons.

As for chat software and search engines, no one is optimistic about them, which is normal because these two companies have been losing money.

Liu Hai does not want these two companies to raise funds too early. Although he is willing to help everyone get rich together, it does not mean that he is willing to let others get on board too early.

So far, a stable Internet circle has been formed. If Bald Eagle wants to overthrow this circle now, it is impossible because the interests of too many people are involved!
(End of this chapter)