Since they are reborn, they must be supported by the school beauties.

Chapter 167 The Significance of the School's Internal Network
Liu Shiyu, who returned from studying in the United States, is highly dependent on the Internet.

She frequently uses email to communicate with her Berklee tutors about her performance experiences and questions, and the tutors also send her new teaching materials via email.

In addition, almost all of her university classmates were ICQ users, and they maintained frequent contact through ICQ, just like netizens in China are used to using QQ to communicate.

Although ICQ ceased service completely after ten years, it remains the most popular chat software internationally, with a larger user base than MSN.

Tencent QQ was originally called OICQ, which can be considered a copy of ICQ. It even copied the name of ICQ. Later, it was under pressure from infringement that it changed to QQ. In the end, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. For Chinese users, both ICQ and OICQ were just a bunch of letters that they couldn't understand.

It might take several tries to remember the name OICQ, but you can remember QQ very clearly in one go.

In fact, OICQ only took off after it was renamed QQ.

Liu Shiyu habitually logged into her ICQ, checked her email and unread messages, and then opened the Renren (a Chinese social networking site) address that Chen Cheng had given her.

When registering her account, she filled in the schools she attended for junior high, high school, and university, and also followed the system's suggestions to fill in the specific dates of each of her school experiences.

This is also the algorithm logic behind the school's precise recommendation of students.

If user A is a student at Jiangcheng No.1 High School and also a student at Jiangcheng University, then among the ten users the system recommends to him that he may know, the first one in the list must be a user who, like him, has the experience of studying at both Jiangcheng No.1 High School and Jiangcheng University.

Secondly, users of Jiangcheng University and Jiangcheng No.1 Middle School are the next group.

However, there is one situation where the recommendation will take precedence over matching two schools: when the enrollment years are the same.

If user B and user A both attend the same middle school and university, but their enrollment dates differ significantly, the system will prioritize matching users whose educational experiences overlap with user A's in terms of time.

For example, if User C and User A both entered Jiangcheng University in 1999, then User C should be recommended first because they are more likely to know each other in real life.

If User D and User A both entered Jiangcheng No. 1 High School in 1996, then User D's recommendation weight would be higher than User C's. This is because Chen Cheng believes that the number of high school students is far less than that of university students, so the possibility of User A knowing User D is higher than the possibility of User A knowing User C.

Liu Shiyu couldn't see the system's algorithm logic. If this wasn't Chen Cheng's website, she wouldn't be too willing to fill in her detailed information. But the thought that it was Chen Cheng who made it made her less wary.

She is a native of Jiangcheng. Both her parents are academics. She attended the best schools in Jiangcheng for elementary, middle and high school. In order for her to receive better professional training, her parents sent her to study in the United States before she graduated from high school.

In the early years, communication was inconvenient, the internet was not widespread, and international calls were extremely expensive, so she lost contact with most of her high school classmates.

After returning to China, she had considered reconnecting with her high school classmates, but because she really disliked the job her parents had arranged for her, she focused on applying to the Philharmonic Orchestra and temporarily put the matter out of her mind.

At that time, there were no university classmates on the school's intranet.

So, after she registered her account, the system couldn't find any university alumni for her, so it immediately recommended ten high school alumni to her.

Liu Shiyu attended the High School Affiliated to South China Normal University, so the first three of these ten alumni who graduated from the High School Affiliated to South China Normal University are her classmates.

What she found even more incredible was that one of them was her classmate from high school!

Moreover, the other person was one of my two best friends in class!

Unfortunately, they lost contact with each other and could no longer find each other's contact information.

So at that moment, she was almost speechless with shock.

I originally thought that since Chen Cheng's website was in its early stages, I would just register an account and fill out some information to support him.

To my utter surprise, right after registering, I saw my high school classmate on this platform!

Moreover, her high school classmate used a real photo, and even after so many years, she still recognized the person at a glance.

What she didn't notice was that there was a small green dot in the upper right corner of the other person's profile picture. This green dot indicated that the user was currently online.

She probably never imagined that Renren's algorithm logic was absolutely groundbreaking and leading among current internet products.

As the system matched her with these alumni, it also sent a message to these alumni, as well as to other alumni who were not included in the system's recommendation list.

"Your classmate from Huazhong Normal University Affiliated High School, Liu Shiyu, has joined the school's intranet! If you know her, please say hello!"

The classmate who was online also received this message.

To their surprise, Liu Shiyu, who had been out of contact for many years, had also joined the school's intranet.

At this moment, Liu Shiyu had already opened the other person's profile. She saw the other person's photo and a few short posts. The most recent one read: "Are there not enough alumni from Huazhong Normal University Affiliated High School using Renren? I don't see many of my classmates from back then. Renren is such a great website, everyone should promote it and get more classmates who have lost contact with us to join!"

Seeing this, Liu Shiyu suddenly felt a little sad.

Most people study abroad after graduating from university, when they are relatively mature and have a stronger ability to adapt to unfamiliar environments.

But Liu Shiyu was different. She went to the United States to study before she was an adult, living with a local family and starting to adapt from the local high school. Then she applied for and interviewed for universities. Only those who experienced it firsthand can understand the hardships involved.

Suddenly seeing updates from her former high school classmates back home evoked a feeling of excitement, but also a sense of unease.

Just as Liu Shiyu was browsing the other person's profile, a system notification popped up. The girl named Wang Hui had followed her and sent her a message: "Shiyu? Do you remember me?"

Liu Shiyu was surprised that the other party had sent her a message, and replied happily: "I remember, Xiao Hui! Where are you now?"

“I work in Yenching University. What about you? Are you still in the United States?” Liu Shiyu replied, “I’ve returned to China and am teaching at Jiangnan University.”

"Oh my god, you're back in China? When did you get back?"

"last year."

Wang Hui eagerly sent a message: "Quickly give me your phone number, I'll call you!"

Liu Shiyu sent her phone number to the other party, and the call came back very quickly.

Two classmates who hadn't seen each other for many years chatted on the phone for a long time. Towards the end, they both cried and laughed on their respective ends of the line.

Liu Shiyu did not hide her next career plan, and when the other party heard that she would be going to Beijing for an interview next week, they immediately said that they would definitely meet up and catch up.

Wang Hui works at a research institute in Yanjing. Although she is not married yet, her workplace provides single dormitories as a benefit. So the two agreed that when Liu Shiyu goes to Yanjing, they would live together.

The two chatted until late before reluctantly hanging up the phone, while Liu Shiyu sat in front of the computer, her emotions still unsettled.

She never imagined that a website could bring such comfort, helping someone easily reconnect with a classmate they had lost contact with for many years.

Thinking back to the fact that this was a website created by Chen Cheng, she felt even more incredulous.

What happened to her was also happening to other users on Renren.com at that very moment.

The purpose of Renren.com is to help people build, strengthen, and rekindle friendships among classmates.
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The following morning, the number of users on Renren.com had exceeded 150,000.

When the vehicle management office opened for business, people in Wenzhou raised the price of vehicle registration quotas to 60,000 yuan.

However, the price of 60,000 yuan did not last long, and it rose by another 2,000 yuan in the morning, reaching 62,000 yuan.

The entire taxi industry and those who follow the quota market are somewhat frenzied, but Chen Cheng remains calm. The current price is only one-third of his target selling price.

With relatively flexible hours, Tang Jiakai took some time in the morning to go to the second floor of the Sichuan restaurant to meet with the delivery workers and the installation and debugging technicians.

By the time Chen Cheng finished his morning classes, the second floor of the Sichuan restaurant was ready for use.

When Chen Cheng arrived at the second floor of the Sichuan restaurant, Tang Jiakai was already waiting there with ten people.

Most of these ten people are third-year students, and there are three fourth-year students.

Tang Jiakai had already informed them, so when they saw that the boss was a freshman, although they were surprised, they did not show it.

As soon as they met, Tang Jiakai introduced everyone to Chen Cheng.

It must be said that Tang Jiakai is reliable in his work.

These people include both front-end and back-end developers.

What surprised Chen Cheng even more was that there was a senior student named Xiao Peng among them.

Although Chen Cheng had little interaction with him in his previous life, he left a deep impression on him because he later became a very famous product manager in the Internet industry. He was recruited by many large Internet companies and later transitioned to the new energy vehicle industry. Although he did not become a big boss, he was very successful in a large company.

Unexpectedly, Tang Jiakai's startup team included such a future product genius.

A product manager may not be the most technically skilled, but they are definitely the most insightful, understand users best, and know how to cater to them.

Good internet products, whether software or hardware, are fundamentally based on product managers conceiving product functions and architecture, which are then implemented by the technical team.

Such talents are rare.

After getting to know everyone, Chen Cheng announced the work plan he had set for the team.

First, there was the product iteration of Renren.com.

The concept of the fishpond is already complete; it involves embedding forums from various schools within the school's intranet.

So he told everyone about his idea for the fishpond, and then said, "There are plenty of source code for forums. What I'm thinking is that we should get a mature source code as soon as possible, do some secondary development, and then optimize the UI to keep the style as clean and refreshing as the Renren homepage. Then we can go online for testing."

The product concept of the fishpond amazed Tang Jiakai when it was first developed, and it has now amazed the other ten people as well.

They were all veteran netizens who had been browsing BBS for at least three years. In the past, their understanding of BBS was like that of different shops on the street.

Restaurants, clothing stores, hardware stores, general stores—each type of shop is different, with its own storefront and address, completely independent of other shops.

No website has ever tried to combine all these forums together.

The success of the Galo Forum once made them very admire and envious.

But now it seems that Chen Cheng's one fishpond is going to replace all the university forums similar to Galo Forum across the country.

This perspective completely exceeded their previous framework of thinking.

(End of this chapter)