Reborn in 2000, starting from the university website

Chapter 130 Wang Huiwen's Early Morning

On Monday morning, the sun had just begun to shine into a male dormitory in Tsinghua University.

Wang Huiwen rubbed his sleepy eyes and got out of bed. The first thing he did was turn on his dorm computer, log into QQ, and browse HaiNei.com.

He had calculated the time last night; the cabbages in the class beauty's field would ripen precisely at seven o'clock this morning.

His mouse had just double-clicked the QQ icon when a discreet update package popped up on the screen.

A few seconds after the download and installation were complete, a brand new panel appeared before his eyes.

Wang Huiwen was stunned.

A row of icons has been added to the bottom of the panel, the most eye-catching of which is a flashing little speaker.

Upon clicking, I discovered it was a QQ group for the Class of '97, Radio Engineering Major, Department of Electronic Engineering.

The group chat is already buzzing with activity, with messages scrolling by at lightning speed.

"What kind of function is this? No need to post on BBS anymore?"

"We can create our own real-time chat! It's so awesome, much better than chat rooms. Who would bother posting stupid threads and having to refresh the page and wait forever to reply to a message?"

"This is a group chat that our class monitor created last night. Everyone check the real names in the group and see who's missing. Call them out."

Wang Huiwen swallowed hard as he watched the rapidly scrolling dialog box on the screen.

This is a complete game-changer. 5Q Campus Network, which prides itself on being a pure community, is like a backward primitive tribe in the face of the real-time interaction of QQ groups.

What shocked him even more was that the class monitor posted a video chat link in the group chat.

"I just went to buy a camera and got back. There are cameras in the group, click in and try it."

Wang Huiwen quickly clicked on it, and a window popped up on the screen. The image of the class monitor in the next dormitory who hadn't washed his face appeared clearly in the picture, even the small scar on his chin was clearly visible, and the picture didn't lag at all.

"Holy crap, they can actually see people!" The group chat exploded.

In the video, the class monitor, sporting messy hair, is picking at his eyes while facing the microphone.

"Stop staring at the handsome guys, let's get down to business." The class monitor cleared his throat in the video window. "I've already packaged the assignments and a lot of DWG example files for this week's advanced calculus and CAD drawing assignments. I just sent them directly to our class group email via QQ. Just click the envelope icon on your QQ panel, log in to your email, and download them. The Word document inside..."

The document contains the assignment requirements; please don't copy it verbatim. Send the completed electronic version back to my email address by Friday, and remember to include your student ID and name.

After listening, Wang Huiwen casually clicked the envelope icon at the bottom of the QQ panel.

The webpage loads almost instantly.

He found the group email option, clicked on it, and sure enough, he saw an attachment with a paperclip icon, which was over ten megabytes in size.

He moved the mouse and clicked to download.

"Holy crap, is this progress bar bugged?" Wang Huiwen stared at the screen, his eyes almost popping out of their sockets.

The compressed file, which was over ten megabytes in size, downloaded without any pause in the progress bar, filling up in just a few seconds.

Wang Huiwen washed her face, took a towel, and looked at the computer screen with disbelief.

"Is it really finished downloading?" He clicked to check if it was an empty file. The school's terrible campus network usually takes forever to download even a few hundred kilobytes of image; how could a few megabytes download in seconds?

He double-clicked to unzip the file, and a Word document popped up instantly. It contained a dense array of advanced mathematics exercises and drawing requirements, along with more than a dozen CAD drawing examples for reference.

"This is fucking weird." He draped a towel over his shoulder, clicked his tongue, and muttered to himself, "Yesterday, Chen Yizhou posted a welcome message and an article attachment that were a few hundred kilobytes long on the 5Q campus network forum. I was just playing around with it, and I had to disconnect and reconnect three times before I could download it. What kind of black magic does QQ Mail use?"

The group chat exploded at this point.

"Class monitor, this download speed is incredible!"

"No more need to use floppy disks or USB drives to copy course materials! QQ Email is an absolute lifesaver!"

The class monitor quickly typed a reply in the group chat: "From now on, all assignments must be sent to me via QQ email. If anyone dares to try to fool me with those cheap floppy disks or USB drives that are always getting viruses, I'll throw them out the window."

Wang Huiwen was so happy to see the lively discussion in the group video chat that she slapped her thigh.

He didn't have a webcam, but he saw that the profile picture of the only girl in the class, who was also the class beauty, was lit up.

He opened the class beauty's profile and found a blank area on the right side with the words "QQ Show" written on it.

Immediately afterwards, a prompt box popped up: Activate Yellow Diamond membership to show your distinguished status; activate Red Diamond membership to wear all QQ Show items for free.

Wang Huiwen found it so novel that he picked up the phone on the table and dialed the voice recharge service.

Five minutes later.

He typed two words in the class group: "Good morning."

The group went silent for two seconds immediately after the message was sent.

On the right side of the group member list, Wang Huiwen's name instantly turned bright red and skipped over a large group of online classmates, stopping firmly at the very top of the list.

Not only that, but a sparkling red diamond icon has also appeared next to his name.

Clicking on his profile reveals a cool virtual character wearing a black trench coat, large sunglasses, and a punk hairstyle, striking a pose arrogantly.

"Holy crap! Huiwen, how did your name become so popular?"

"Where did you get that outfit? It's so cool!"

"Wang Huiwen, the little figures in your QQ Show are so interesting, how did you make them?" the class beauty sent a message.

Wang Huiwen sat in front of the computer, looking at the news about the class beauty. His vanity was satisfied like never before, and he grinned from ear to ear.

He typed rapidly on the keyboard: "Just top up your VIP membership, it's ten yuan a month, or you can buy individual items. By the way, have you ever played Parking Wars? I can teach you."

He opened a new chat window, "Brother, are you up? Check out HaiNei.com and QQ, they're so interesting. I'll come find you at Huaqing Jiayuan later."

The real name displayed in the dialog box is Wang Xing.

Early this morning, at the same time, not only in Tsinghua University, but also in dormitories, computer rooms, and internet cafes of universities across the country, the same scene was unfolding, with similar exclamations rising and falling.

The real-time interaction of QQ groups and the unbelievably fast data transfer experience of QQ Mail, along with QQ Show, QQ Membership, video chat, etc.

The novel product experience of grabbing parking spaces swept through the entire Chinese internet youth community like a storm within hours.

Qihang Technology, 16th floor of Hailong Building.

Jiang Shuo stared at the recharge data sent by the voice information service, his hand trembling slightly as he adjusted his glasses.

"President Bai, this is insane!" Jiang Shuo's voice trembled. "The recharge revenue from Red Diamond, Yellow Diamond, buying luxury cars in the parking space game, and QQ Show outfits has skyrocketed since 7 a.m., almost surpassing Happy Farm's daily revenue!"

Zhang Jian, carrying a bowl of instant noodles, came over and slapped his thigh with a grin: "I told you, these college students' vanity is even stronger than setting an alarm to steal vegetables in the middle of the night. Guys treat five or ten yuan as nothing just to look cool in front of girls."

Wan Lianghao said smugly, "Of course! Just look who designed these clothes. I went through five revisions just for this one black trench coat."

Bai Yuhang leaned back in his swivel chair, holding a teacup in his hand, and said in a calm tone: "Well, once they discover that they can issue tickets to their roommates and fine them for fighting over parking spaces, and that they can send emails with huge attachments in the group chat, they will never be able to leave this ecosystem again."

Su Muqing walked in, placed a well-organized report on the table, and smiled: "Chen Yizhou's ten million US dollars has completely benefited us. Now the whole internet is talking about our newly launched feature modules, and 5Q Campus Network's daily active users have plummeted."