Return To 1998

Anything, when you do it the fourth time, practice makes perfect.

The same goes for opening an Internet cafe.

Ximen Road Internet Cafe 4 is already the fourth Internet cafe opened by Xu Tongdao. It has rich experience in all aspects, and all kinds of publicity before the opening also have rich experience.

Flyer, night card, 20% discount for the first month of opening...

After this set of procedures is completed, the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering across the road, although it may not be as well known, it is not far from it.

As we all know, the level of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering is one or two levels lower than that of Marine Normal University, Water Bird University, and Water Bird Engineering University.

In the School of Mechatronics, there are no undergraduate majors, only junior college students here.

The learning atmosphere in the college is not as strong as those of the three universities.

Can business be good if you open an Internet cafe near such a college?

Will many students be interested in coming online?

Before the official opening of Ximendao Internet Cafe 4, to be honest, Xu Tongdao was a little worried.

not much! Just a little bit worried.

He worries that the students of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering are not as interested in the emerging Internet cafes as the students of the other three universities.

Until the day of the official opening, it was also a Saturday he chose specially.

In the morning, before 8 o'clock in the morning, four boys came and asked as soon as they walked in the door, "Boss, are you opening today? Can you really get a 20% discount on this thing?"

The boy who asked the question was a handsome boy. When he asked, he held a white-printed leaflet in his hand.

Xu Tongdao smiled, "Yes! Welcome! Come! I'll boot you up! You are the first to come, and I will give you a bottle of Coke! Please come in! Please come!"

...

This is just the beginning.

The arrival of these four people was like opening a Pandora's Box. After about two hours, a group of boys and girls came online with leaflets.

Uh, shouldn't Pandora's Box be used here?

Maybe!

But the meaning is the same.

That's it anyway.

The guest is like a cloud, and it should be able to describe this morning on the first day of opening.

The students of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering used their practical actions today to dispel the little worries in Xu Tongdao's heart.

They seem to be more interested in surfing the Internet than the students at Aquatic Normal University, Aquatic Bird University, and Aquatic Bird Engineering University.

Before ten o'clock in the morning, Xu Tongdao was full here.

After ten o'clock, people still come from time to time, but there are no computers for them to play. Some people leave in disappointment. Some people watch others play curiously, waiting for someone to leave by the way.

...

Around ten o'clock.

Early in the morning, Chang Min, who had gone to the side entrance of the Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering to set up a stall selling breakfast, rode a tricycle back to the courtyard.

At the first glance, she saw the crowds in the Internet cafe, and her eyes were filled with surprise at that time.

Then subconsciously glanced at the sign hanging on the front door of the main house-Ximen Road Internet Cafe.

"Internet cafe...the business is so good?"

She whispered to herself.

Obviously he was taken aback.

However, for her, this seems to be just the beginning.

afternoon.

She prepares the meat for tomorrow morning in the kitchen, and when she goes out occasionally, she subconsciously glances at the open internet cafe.

As a result, every time I saw it was a scene full of seats.

In front of a computer in an Internet cafe, young faces were staring at the screen so intently. Someone was learning to type with both hands on the keyboard.

Someone is wearing headphones, little by little, like a chicken pecking at rice, but it doesn't seem to be dozing off.

Others are wearing headphones and staring at a movie playing on the computer screen.

Chang Min's eyes were filled with surprise and doubt.

She was surprised that the Internet cafe's business was so good, from morning to afternoon, it turned out to be full.

And what she wonders is-does the computer really have such a magical power? Those young people, why are all of them obsessed with each other?

It's like a game hall that was all the rage a few years ago.

But it was a bit different from the game hall in her impression.

In her impression, every game hall is very noisy, and every game hall is always smoky. Some young people are always shouting in it, looking like gangsters.

But this Internet cafe opened by Xu Tongdao...Although it is not very quiet, in general, there are not many people talking in it, and most of them do their own things and do not interfere with each other.

...

At night, at night, the moon has risen very high.

Chang Min, who had run out of her aunt’s towel, opened the kitchen door, put on her coat, and went out, preparing to go out to buy a bag. After going out, she subconsciously glanced at the brightly lit internet cafe.

It was still full.

She was startled at that time, a little bit unable to believe her eyes.

Is the magic of this Internet cafe really that great?

Full in the morning, full in the afternoon, full in the evening?

Exaggerated, right?

Don’t you need money to play in it?

Every full scene I saw today, when added together, had a great impact on her at this time.

She thought of running under the sunset that day...

wrong!

I thought of the Maolin Hotel that her family opened before. Half a month ago, this was still her family's Maolin Hotel. But why did her family get fewer and fewer students every day when they opened the restaurant here?

Don't they have to eat?

Is playing on the computer more important than eating? Why didn't these people come when she opened the restaurant? Now that Internet cafes are opened here, these people will come to patronize without day or night?

She was puzzled.

She didn't know that after the rise of Internet cafes, this era has entered a new era of rapid change.

For example, twenty years later, some of the capital giants that everyone is familiar with all developed rapidly after the rise of the Internet.

Such as the BAT Big Three.

Such as Apple, Huawei, Meituan and so on.

Before Xu Tongdao's rebirth, some people said: When the times abandon some people, they won't even say hello.

This is a fact!

The rise of the Internet, for most people, is silent, like mushrooms after a rain, like the sunrise.

People like Chang Min's age were generally uninterested or even disgusted when Internet cafes were just emerging.

They subconsciously think that Internet cafes and game arcades are one type of things, which are harmful things. Not only do they not want to contact them, they even educate and warn their children and family members not to go to Internet cafes.

Such a concept will not affect their lives for three or five years.

Ten or eight years ~www.readwn.com~ may not have much impact on their lives.

When the Internet economy began to sweep the land of China 20 years later, people like them couldn't even play a smart phone.

Then, one day, they finally realized that the times had changed, and they seemed to be unable to keep up with the times.

By then, time can't go back, and they are destined to never keep up with the times.

...

It was past four o'clock in the morning.

Chang Min got up early, prepared to wash up, and started making steamed buns, steamed buns, and siu mai, otherwise she would have nothing to sell today.

When she opened the kitchen door and poured water out of the washbasin, she turned her face, what did she see?

Through the window of the Internet cafe, she actually saw a dozen boys surfing the Internet in the dimly lit Internet cafe, sitting in front of the computer, staring at the computer.

At that moment, she was stunned, as if she had seen a ghost.