Chapter 47.1


    “Really?” Gu Muxi looked at him skeptically.


    Yi Feng nodded solemnly, “Really, it still hurts a bit. I think I need a few days to recover.”


    Life is like a y, all dependent on acting. If he didn’t do this, how could he get Gu Muxi to take him to school?


    He hadpletely figured out Gu Muxi, haha!


    “Alright, let’s go. I’ll help you downstairs,” Gu Muxi said helplessly.


    Yi Feng walked down the stairs with her support.


    “Gu Muxi, did you go to open an ount yesterday afternoon?” Yi Feng asked.


    Now, to ess the inte, one still needs to go to a business hall to open an ount, and then theputer esses the inte through a phone line.


    This era has not yet poprized fiber optics; one could only use dial-up to ess the inte.


    It involves dialing a special number of an ISP through a phone line modem, with very slow speeds, only up to 56kbps for both upload and download rates.


    And once you make a call, you can’t ess the inte, and if you’re online, you can’t make calls.


    This inte speed only allows for browsing web pages, forums, and using OICQ,ter known as QQ. For gaming, one could only y single-yer games since they don’t require an inte connection.


    Inte cafes and some businesses would use dedicated broadband to y online games like CS.


    “Yes, my parents agreed, and a technician wille to install it this afternoon. However, my mom only allows me 30 hours of inte time per month, roughly an hour a day.”


    “It can’t be helped, inte fees are quite expensive, around fifty or sixty yuan a month!” Gu Muxi sighed.


    “Auntie is probably worried you’ll spend all your time surfing the inte and neglect your studies,” Yi Fengughed.


    “Maybe, but having an hour a day to y isn’t bad, haha!” Gu Muxi quickly cheered up.


    Women change their minds faster than flipping a book!


    “Fine, when Ie back from school, I’ll help you set up theputer. You can also ask the technician to install my inte line. It’s about time my house had andline installed,” Yi Fengughed.


    “Okay, I’ll tell the technician when hees after school,” Gu Muxi nodded.


    As the college entrance exam approached, there were hardly any sses, with teachers mostly going over exam problems or students studying on their own.


    The school days passed quickly amidst intense revision.


    After school, Wang Tie took Yi Feng to Zhao Xingye’s shop to repairputers.


    The next day, the new assistant apprentice Gao Hongxing started to take the initiative to ask Yi Feng aboutputer repairs.


    Yi Feng didn’t pay much attention to him, letting him adjust his attitude first before possibly teaching him a thing or two.


    He waspletely under Yi Feng’s control, so he could only obediently assist and dared not talk back.


    After fixing theputer, Yi Feng returned home, where the instation technician was from the telmunicationspany.


    This telmunicationspany was not theter China Tel but a newly establishedpany that undertook smallwork services in Guang province, whichter merged into the Tel Group.


    Seeing Yi Fenge back, Meng Xiaoyun hurriedly asked, “Xiaofeng, why did you call someone to install a phone and inte?”


    “That must have cost quite a bit?”


    Yi Feng chuckled, “Not much, just three or four hundred yuan.”


    “Mom, don’t worry, I’ve earned some money repairingputers recently. Having the inte will also make it easier for me to learn aboutputers!”


    These days, repairingputers had earned him more than seven thousand yuan, and with his previous savings, Yi Feng now had thirty-one thousand yuan in cash at his disposal.


    Spending a few hundred yuan to install a phone line wasn’t a big deal.


    With another month or so of work, he would have enough money to open his shop.


    The soft furnishings for the shop and the purchase ofputerponents would also be a significant expense.


    Meng Xiaoyun patted his head and smiled, “My son is really good, earning money so quickly!”


    “But still, focus on preparing for your college entrance exam and don’t get distracted.”


    “And if you make money, remember to save it for your university expenses. Don’t spend it recklessly!”


    She was reassured to see that Yi Feng could earn money.


    “Mm, I know, Mom,” Yi Feng responded with a smile.


    However, he looked closely at his mother and noticed her paleplexion, “Mom, you don’t look so well. Are you too tired? Should we go to the hospital for a check-up?”


    Meng Xiaoyun smiled, “No need, I’m fine.”


    “Still, we should get a regr health check-up, don’t worry about the cost, I have money,” Yi Feng earnestly said.


    “Okay, okay, I’ll listen to you. Let’s talk about it some other time,” Meng Xiaoyun brushed it off.


    An hourter, the technician had installed the phone and inte at Yi Feng’s home.


    After paying, Yi Feng started setting up hisputer on the desk in his room.


    He sessfully connected to the inte after dialing up.


    Awesome!


    Finally, he could surf the inte at home!


    Yi Feng couldn’t express how excited he was.


    The inte is arguably the greatest invention since the turn of the century!


    It will change the world!


    Even though the inte speed was extremely slow and unstable, taking five or six seconds to load a webpage didn’t dampen Yi Feng’s enthusiasm.


    With thisputer, he could start programming and developing software!


    A perfect tool for making money.


    Developing software or games that could be sold for money would be amazing!


    In the year 2000, an era when the inte andputers were not yet fully poprized, many utility software or games had not been developed, such as stealing vegetables, grabbing parking spaces, yingndlords, and even 4399 small games were not online yet. This market was a vast blue ocean.


    Yi Feng opened a few of the most popr websites of the time, like Sohu and Sina, which were information portals that also had their chat rooms.


    Chatting in chat rooms, browsing portals, and discussing on Tianya were the main ways of online social interaction at the time.


    OICQ, or QQ, was not particrly popr at this point. Yi Feng remembered that at this time, QQ had not yet changed its name, and Tencent had just received financing. The number of registered users had just reached 5 million, but this was only the number of registrations. After all, many people had several, even dozens or hundreds of ounts, mainly because the real-time online number hadn’t broken 100,000, which was lowpared to the real-time online traffic ofrge portal sites.


    However, this year was also precisely the year of the inte bubble burst, severely impacting the inte industry. Tencent was also in a severe financial crisis due to the soaring operational costs caused by user expansion, but revenue could not cover the losses.


    Bringing his thoughts back, Yi Feng felt that he currently did not have the capacity to enter this era of the inte.


    Maybe there would be a chance in the future!


    He downloaded an OICQ, which had a very… basic, but nostalgic login interface, with a gray box…


    The login interface only had a user number and a user password, with three navigation buttons at the bottom:


    Login, Cancel, Registration Guide.


    Following the registration guide, Yi Feng registered an ount for himself, and it was a six-digit number. ———- Support the Trantion! ??? Your donations not only show appreciation but also keep the trantor motivated! Every contribution helps continue bringing you more of what you love. Thank you for being a part of this journey! ?? /maxoofie