This guy moves very fast.
He thought Ayang would wait for him to send Ruan Wan away to the electronics market before doing what he planned yesterday.
"I'll go take a look on the first floor."
Instructing the two of them to keep an eye on the counter, Lin Yue came to the lobby on the first floor.
Maybe it’s because the New Year is approaching, and the customer flow in the electronic market is much larger than before. Judging from the faces, many of them are college students in their twenties.
Lin Yue walked around half a circle on the first floor, and finally found Ayang who was surrounded by people at a counter in the northwest that sold BP machines, mobile phones and other communication equipment.
"Ayang."
He shouted outside the counter.
"Hey, you came so quickly, Ruan Guan is gone?" After Ayang said this, he introduced to the people next to him: "Here, he is here."
"Come, come, come, young man." Among the seven or eight people gathered outside, a middle-aged man in a gray sweater pointed at the movie clip playing in the computer window and said, "Did you invent this software?"
Lin Yue walked into the counter: "Yes, I invented it. How about it? Is it okay to use it?"
In the mid-1990s, the built-in player of WINDOWS was unable to play video files in VCD. It could only use third-party software, but the effect was very poor because most of the DVDs on the market were pirated discs with varying quality. Disk failure, disk jamming, etc. often occur, and sometimes the computer crashes.
Lin Yue now sells video discs and runs a rental business at Beijing Nanjing University of Technology. When he had nothing to do, he used the assembly technology he had learned before to create a decoding software to convert the YUV format of VCD into the RGB format of the computer, named Super Decoding.
When a software comes out, it must be tested, bugs and opinions collected for improvement, right? How many students from Jingnan University of Technology can afford a computer? So he turned his attention to the Zhujiang Road Electronics Market, which is the place with the highest computer penetration rate. Software like this, which can powerfully correct errors and worn VCD discs, was provided to them for free. Of course, there was no reason to refuse.
The middle-aged man said: "It's very easy to use. It has better error correction capabilities than this year's latest Aiduo VCD. We just tried it and put a disc in the VCD that could not be read. It was easy to open it with your software." .”
A middle-aged woman with high cheekbones next to her said, "Young man, I heard that the counter selling DVDs and computer CDs on the second floor belongs to you?"
Lin Yue said: "Yes."
"What's your name? How old are you this year, twenty-one? Twenty-two?"
"Auntie, my name is Zhang Zhang, and I will be twenty-one in just over a month."
"To have such a business acumen at such a young age, and to be able to design and produce computer software, is really amazing. It's much better than that little brat in our family who knew how to go out and mess around just after coming back from winter vacation."
Lin Yue said: "Don't praise me. I designed such a software for my own convenience. Because it looks good, my friend suggested that I find a few more people to try it out and see if there is anything that needs improvement. "
"Quite modest." The middle-aged woman leaned closer and said, "Which university are you studying at? Do you have a girlfriend?"
Lin Yue smiled awkwardly: "I am studying at Jingnan Institute of Technology."
"That's great." She wanted to say something, but she was pulled by a man next to her who seemed to be close to her, and then she closed her mouth angrily.
A man in his thirties next to him said impatiently: "Lao Lu's pretending is done, it's our turn now."
Ayang picked up the disc bag placed in front of the computer desk and got up from the chair.
Lin Yuewang, the counter owner, said: "Boss Lu, if you have any problems while using the software, just come to me at the counter on the east side of the second floor."
"Okay, thank you, Xiao Zhang."
After leaving Boss Lu's counter, Lin Yue and Ayang went to several counters with computers. It was close to noon before they had time to go to a noodle shop outside and ordered two bowls of beef noodles and half a pound of soy sauce beef.
"Zhang Zhang, didn't you say that making software is very profitable? But the software you spent a month to make is now available to them for free. Isn't that such a loss?"
Ayang knew very well how much effort Lin Yue had put into "Super Decoding" in the past month. While Xiaopang and Siyan'er were playing games, he was imagining ideas next to him, writing down sections of program code on straw paper. Sometimes Chen Xiaozheng couldn't help but fall asleep. He would still use a flashlight on the bed to modify the parameters.
Such a good software is provided for free to merchants in the electronic market, so you will lose money no matter how you think about it.
Lin Yue said: "Some restaurants will find people to try out new dishes for free. The same principle applies to software. In the long run, 'Super Decoding' is just a stepping stone."
"Knocking on the door? What door are you knocking on?"
"If this software is really easy to use, do you think they will recommend it to their friends? Once they develop the habit of using it, and face the upgraded version with better experience in the future, do you think they will be willing to buy it with real money? ?”
Ayang was stunned, he really didn't think so much.
Lin Yue patted him on the shoulder: "You haven't heard of this saying, free is the most expensive."
"But few people can afford computers." After thinking about it, he still felt that it was a bit of a loss.
Lin Yue said: "In the past, VCDs were something that was beyond the reach of ordinary families. Now, aren't the latest models with so-called super error correction capabilities only cost two to three thousand yuan? And you have seen them all, those who claim to have super error correction capabilities. The performance of the machine is not as good as that of 'super decoding'. VCDs, tape recorders, game consoles, and even televisions will all be replaced by computer integration in the future."
A Yang said: "If you are so not optimistic about the development of VCD, why are you still selling optical discs at the rental counter of the electronic market? Oh, by the way, the first batch of optical disc packaging paper provided by the printing factory has just arrived. I have asked Xiaohai and Ah Wei to share it. Pick bags.”
Lin Yue glanced at the passers-by riding their newly purchased bicycles on the street outside.
"It will take a few years before computers are popularized. During this period, VCD and its derivatives will decline over time, but there are still ways to make money. Now I am upgrading from a night market stall to a rental counter. In my plan, I want to get Transformation funding.”
It is now the beginning of 1997. VCDs will be popular for at least two years, followed by DVDs. Computers will not be widely popularized until 2003, so as long as you don’t drift, you can still make money------Why are so many people making VCDs now? CD? Because the profit margin is above 300%, there are many factories in Guangdong doing it. Today is the era of VCD discs, followed by DVD discs, computer system disks, game installation disks... Even ordinary people can follow the pulse of the market and buy two houses in BJ without any problem.
"Transformation?" Ayang felt like he was listening to a book from heaven. Student Zhang talked a lot, which sounded reasonable, but there were too many things in it that he couldn't understand.
Lin Yue did not explain, but tapped the edge of the bowl with chopsticks: "Eat the noodles. If you don't eat them, they will get cold."
…
During the winter vacation, other college students eat their mother's food, sleep in, visit relatives and friends, play cards and video games...
Lin Yue was not idle. While studying the sophomore course of architecture by himself, he improved the "super decoding" and started his second computer-related application.
It wasn't until the third day before New Year's Eve that he, Xiaohai and Awei got on the return train to celebrate the Lunar New Year with his family in this world.
Parents always have complaints. Although Kaifang's family conditions are not as good as those of the rich second generation like Xu Kaiyang, they are still considered middle-income families in regional cities. They are more than enough to provide for their children. There is no problem in finishing college. There is no need for him to do work-study.
Lin Yue didn't tell them that he had earned almost 8,000 yuan in more than half a month before the end of the year. What he gave his elders was the final report card.
The third overall score in the whole grade compared to the notice of repeating the grade before last summer vacation suddenly made this new year a lot more festive. In a working-class family in 1996, being able to make money was far less important than having good grades.
Because of this, Father Zhang became much more energetic and felt more confident when speaking in front of his eldest and second brothers.
The day before the Spring Festival, he went to the local department store and bought a Little Swan washing machine and a Haier refrigerator for his family. When the delivery man came to move the things, Zhang's mother accidentally bit her tongue. However, she ate plenty of dumplings on New Year's Eve. .
After the Lunar New Year, he visited relatives and friends as before, until Friday, when he got on the train to Jingnan Institute of Technology.
He stayed at Xu Kaiyang's house that day and had a drink with Ayang in the evening.
After Xiao Hai and Ah Wei came back the next day, the counter of the electronic market opened. Selling CDs was not like the catering industry. During the Chinese New Year, citizens were looking for entertainment activities, so the business was better than usual. Plus, Lin Yue stopped there. As soon as [Bargaining LV3] and [Master's Killer LV2] were opened, nearby colleagues found that they couldn't defeat him no matter what they did.
On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, Lin Yue got a piece of news from Xiaohai. In the evening, he arranged things in the store, bought some longan and peanuts at the dry goods store opposite, and rode his Feige bicycle back to Jingnan. I went to the Polytechnic University, but I didn’t go to the boys’ dormitory. I went straight into the still deserted girls’ dormitory and knocked on the door of Room 308.
Boom, boom, boom~
I waited outside for almost a minute before the door opened.
Nothing has changed.
Li Weijuan's bed had curtains drawn, Ruan Guan's bed was very clean, there was a poster of the Goatskin Band on the wall, and there was a basketball in the net pocket beside Zhu Xiaobei's bed.
Become human.
Zheng Wei stood in the deserted dormitory, gritted her teeth and looked at him for a while, then picked up the pillow on her bed and threw it away: "What are you doing here? Who asked you to come, you go, you go!"
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