bloom america

Chapter 283 Internet Age (Part 2)

Just a few days after the completion of the East-West Internet, three north-south lines were launched simultaneously. These three north-south lines ran through the east coast, west coast and central region respectively. In this way, almost all states can be covered by the Internet.

In California and New York, Catherine is vigorously promoting intra-city broadband. With intra-city broadband, the Internet will have real meaning.

The cloud system is Catherine's big killer for the Internet.

With the cloud system, people can use the Internet very conveniently. In the future, more and more people will want to buy real personal computers, which is very beneficial to the popularization of the Internet.

Donald's advertising strategy is a set goal, but so far, Catherine has no plans to put advertisements on the Internet. Anyway, orders from the federal government can bring a lot of profits to Catherine.

"Um...Okay, no problem at all." Catherine put down the phone, she was a little excited.

The Los Angeles Times finally agreed to open an electronic version.

Catherine had given up all hope, but just after the east-west line of the Internet was completed, the person in charge of the Los Angeles Times called.

"Why are they so impatient this time?"

Elsa vaguely heard the voice on the phone.

"It's very simple, because they saw business opportunities." Catherine looked "unfathomable".

Elsa asked: "Business opportunity? What business opportunity?"

"Elsa, think about it, is the Los Angeles Times a very influential newspaper?"

Elsa nodded.

"Then where is it most authoritative?"

"……Los Angeles?"

Catherine nodded: "Yes, it's Los Angeles. But if there is an Internet, its newspapers can affect the United States. So far, there are no electronic newspapers on the Internet at all. The Los Angeles Times dares to be the first to eat crabs.

People, if the Internet can really develop, wouldn’t they make money?”

Once people form a dependence, even if a newspaper like the New York Times enters the Internet, the Los Angeles Times will have great advantages because of the relationship that has been formed among the user base.

Only this time Elsa understood what was going on.

"Then...the next thing we have to do is..."

Catherine picked up the phone and called Donald's office.

"The Los Angeles Times has already reached an agreement. Now go and discuss it with the New York Times..."

Elsa next to her was a little dumbfounded.

“We’re going to bring The New York Times into the mix?”

"Of course, with the example of the Los Angeles Times here, they will definitely compromise."

Catherine looked confident.

“But wouldn’t that be bad for the Los Angeles Times?”

"As long as their competition is good for us, that's fine." Catherine smiled strangely: "I'm a capitalist."

Moreover, good competition is also very helpful in boosting the atmosphere of the entire network. Naturally, it is impossible for Catherine to let the "Los Angeles Times" dominate.

After discussing this matter, Catherine stood up and came to Seymour Clay's research center.

"oh……"

There were metal scraps all over the floor, and Clay didn't know what he was doing.

"When Edson saw Katherine come over, Clay put down what he was doing.

"How's the research going?"

"Well, sfc's performance is very high. It's no problem for a computer to generate billions of times... I'm currently solving the multi-tasking problem."

"Well, okay, then I won't bother you."

Catherine said and left. She didn't want to disturb the other person's work.

Multitasking is the most important thing to solve. Such a supercomputer has to face the tasks of hundreds or thousands of users. This is undoubtedly a very challenging job for today's technicians.

Catherine originally considered whether the cloud system could add a video on demand function, but in the end she had to forget it. If she wanted to do this, the burden on the computer would undoubtedly be even greater.

However, Catherine is also considering using optical fiber to transmit TV signals. If users have needs, they can use monitors to watch TV.

——But this is a move to challenge vested interest groups. So far, Catherine has no intention of doing this. If she really does this, she will face more enemies... This is not a good thing.

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Back in the office, Catherine turned on the computer.

Because the networks in the east and west have been connected, the information that Catherine can browse has suddenly doubled. Both forums and chat rooms have been transformed and reorganized to form the current network model.

Using Internet Explorer 2.0, Catherine can easily use the mouse to browse the content she wants to see.

Through hyperlinks, you can easily access the Internet.

"The Internet is very sluggish..."

After browsing around the forum, Catherine was really speechless about these pig-like teammates at the FBI.

The Internet is full of comments praising the United States, while those who objectively evaluate the facts are completely ridiculed.

——There is nothing wrong with what the FBI did. The fault lies in the fact that the manager of the FBI is a fanatical anti-communist, and he has been carried away by this kind of thinking.

Catherine had some doubts about whether the FBI would carry out "inter-provincial" operations on college students who might have sympathy for the Communist Party... Oh, here in the United States, it's "inter-state".

This is not good news.

"Hell, don't they know that teenagers in adolescence are in a rebellious period, and they like to oppose what others praise?"

Catherine complained.

"Maybe they just made an honest mistake?" Elsa is also learning to surf the Internet, and it seems that she has mastered it quickly.

"Forget it, the CIA is much more troublesome than us, and even if it's the 'United Socialist Republic of America', it's not a big deal..."

Wouldn't it be more wonderful if there was still a "Free Union of Soviets"?

Catherine added a little in her heart.

"socialism?"

"The FBI's stupid actions will only make people think that socialism is better..." Catherine curled her lips.

China is now exporting **. Although it is in the "ten years", these ten years are also the time when Máo's ideas develop best and fastest.

Japan has the Red Army, France has the May Storm, and the Cultural Revolution in the United States - for a small number of people - will last until the 1980s...

If the Soviet Union had survived and the United States collapsed, would China have become "the last bastion of capitalism"?

However, this "if" is just an "if". The United States has begun to transform from an industrial country to a financial country, and deindustrialization is the general trend.

With financial drugs, the United States, which drank poison to quench its thirst, will at least survive for a while longer than the Soviet Union, which died of thirst. This is enough. The dividends of the Cold War directly pushed the United States to the pinnacle of hegemony.

The cost of labor and materials in the United States is getting higher and higher. American products are being defeated by the Japanese. The Japanese threat theory is no longer a day or two. At the same time, because of Japan's impact, American factories have moved to foreign countries.

——For example, many automobile manufacturers have begun to build factories in developing countries. The Japanese invasion was the first step in deindustrialization of the United States.

"Is it that serious?" Elsa was a little surprised.

"Who knows, no one can predict what will happen in the future."

Catherine continued browsing the forum.

She felt that the current situation of the Internet would only make people disgusted with this new thing, which was quite detrimental to her development. But what could she do?

"Elsa, if two groups of people are ready to fight, is there any way to stop them?"

Catherine asked Elsa.

"Well... how about we ask them not to meet each other?"

"Hmm...huh? That's a really good idea."

Catherine suddenly thought of something.

"We'll separate them"

Elsa looked at Catherine, a little strange: "You mean the group of people in the forum."

Catherine nodded.

"Just let them talk to themselves, that's easy." Catherine rubbed her chin, and then began to think about how to separate them.

Catherine also had some experience with this in her previous life.

Some websites gather a group of "five cents", while some websites have a group of "five cents", and both sides are talking about themselves in their own small circles. The most typical ones are the Kai.Di community and the Utopia community.

.Hometown of You. The former is the Five Cent Base - in Catherine's view, it should be a group of losers who want to gain power in the name of "democracy", while the latter is composed of some leftists.

"Since some people like to talk about this or that thing on the Internet, just let them talk." Catherine curled her lips: "We will dig two holes, and then put some bait in one hole and let these people jump.

Go over there and let these like-minded people gather in their own pits and let them talk to themselves."

Catherine smiled.

"But if there is a... uh... there is a website full of adultery on our network, the impact on our network seems not to be good..."

Elsa seemed a little worried.

"Well... we can't open a website just for such a purpose..."

Catherine also agreed.

The Internet had just developed, and Catherine was still a little afraid that the Internet would be strangled.

The Internet is a ferocious beast. Once out of the cage, it can no longer be controlled. But now the cage of this ferocious beast has just been opened. It has not come out yet, and there are still opportunities to keep it in the cage.

Website, you must have a website.

Having a website is a good thing, but how do people know about it?

Catherine suddenly thought of a good thing - a search engine.