Back to 1997, I became the originator of online literature

Chapter 8 Published
The lights in the teaching building were turned off at 11 o'clock in the evening.

Cao Sheng, who had written two more chapters tonight, packed up his things and walked out of the teaching building, walking towards the school gate at a leisurely pace.

The reason why he was taking his time was because he estimated that the Internet cafe's overnight stay had not started yet, so it would be useless if he went too early.

When you come out of the school gate, you can see some snack stalls on the sidewalk not far from the school gate, and some young men and women are already eating.

Cao Sheng felt a little hungry, so he walked over and ordered a bowl of spicy hot pot.

It is still quite cold late at night in this season. Eating some hot spicy hotpot can make your stomach feel better and your body warmer.

Eating piping hot malatang in the cold night breeze feels really special.

After eating and drinking, he walked along the west wall of the school. He remembered that there were several Internet cafes in that direction.

However, this is outside the school, and Huizhou is not a big city. The street lights at night are very dim, and some are even broken.

Those who are timid may not dare to walk this road alone at night.

Cao Sheng doesn't care.

I don’t know if it’s because the domestic security is too good, or if he just has a kind of domineering temperament, but in the original time and space, he lived to be 40 years old, walked on the road at night many times, and never met a bad guy.

Occasionally, when you meet a stranger on the road in the middle of the night, the other person will usually stay away from you with a wary look on his face.

……

A moment later, Cao Sheng came to a small Internet cafe called Starry Sky.

This Internet cafe was converted from a self-built house. There are about ten computers in each room. The owner is an older young man wearing glasses and has an honest face.

In the original time and space, Cao Sheng occasionally came out to surf the Internet and came to this Internet cafe. He had a good impression of the owner of this Internet cafe, so he came here tonight.

After asking the boss a few questions and paying 15 yuan for the overnight stay, the boss turned on a machine for him, and Cao Sheng's overnight stay began.

Cao Sheng noticed that most people in this Internet cafe were playing games.

He has no interest in games and doesn't know much about them. He only recognizes two games: Red Alert and Age of Empires.

I also saw some people watching movies and TV series on their computers, browsing forums and listening to music.

No one chats on QQ.

Because there was no QQ back then.

Cao Sheng opened the document on his computer and flipped through the saved draft he brought with him. Using the light from the computer screen, he would type a sentence on the keyboard after reading it.

It's not very convenient.

First, the manuscript written on the draft paper, with the light from the computer screen, you have to get close to see clearly what is written.

Because it is already overnight time, the boss has turned off most of the lights in the Internet cafe. At this point, even if the boss is willing to turn on the lights, other people who have booked the whole night will protest.

Therefore, Cao Sheng did not suggest to the boss to turn on the lights.

Second, the keyboard in this Internet cafe is not easy to use.

Before traveling through time, he was a full-time coder, so he used carefully selected keyboards.

Although it is not expensive, every time I change the keyboard, I only buy one that costs a few hundred yuan, but what era was that? The quality of keyboards around 2020 is much better than the keyboards used in Internet cafes now.

Moreover, the keyboards he bought were all short-travel, capacitive keyboards that are very suitable for typing.

Typing is about as laborious as on a laptop keyboard.

And now?

The key travel of the keyboard in front of him was so long that he couldn't type any words with the force he was used to typing. If he wanted to type any words, he had to hit the keys on the keyboard hard. After typing just a few hundred words, Cao Sheng felt his fingertips going numb.

Very unaccustomed!

But he knew he had to get used to it, because the computer hardware level of this era was limited, and even if he changed Internet cafes, the keyboards would be similar.

Only when he earns money and buys a laptop, he will feel more comfortable typing.

Time passes slowly.

Some people in the Internet cafe are still playing games; some are quietly watching movies and TV shows; some people get up and buy instant noodles from the boss, which makes the Internet cafe smell like instant noodles and, of course, cigarettes. It seems that Internet cafes have been smelling of cigarettes since their inception.

Cao Sheng wore headphones, listening to music playing on a loop, blocking out the outside sounds, and still inputting the manuscript on the draft paper into the document on the computer bit by bit.

He has gradually adapted to the keyboard in front of him.

But my typing speed is still not as fast as before I traveled through time.

Before the time travel, he could type about 2,500 to 3,000 words per hour.

Tonight, he didn't have to think about the plot. He just had to type the manuscript into the computer, and he could only barely type about two thousand words per hour.

After typing every two thousand words, he would take a short break.

When it was just getting light outside the window, he uploaded 10,000 words to his computer.

In order to prevent the manuscripts uploaded to the computer from being lost due to a sudden crash of the Internet cafe's computer, he saved a copy of every 2,000 words he uploaded to his email mailbox.

Yes, there is email now.

He specially registered an email account tonight.

Before registering an account, he searched his mailbox and found that the first email service in China was only launched in November last year.

It’s only been a month since today.

If he had traveled through time earlier, there would be no email address available.

At this time, Cao Sheng, who had already uploaded 10,000 words, relaxed completely.

He doesn't plan to continue uploading manuscripts today.

tired.

After resting for a while in his seat and drinking two sips of the already cold boiled water, he logged into the website Under the Banyan Tree.

I quietly registered an author account and browsed the website for a while. This is a very primitive literary website, and only short stories are published so far.

There are short essays, poems, and diary-style sharing of feelings.

The only thing missing is any medium or long story.

At least he didn't find it.

A little gray in the Central Plains...

Cao Sheng glanced at the pen name he had just registered, smiled silently, and began to publish his new book "Living with a Flight Attendant".

He didn't know whether his book would have a chance to be published in the future.

If there was no chance of publication, he would not earn a penny if this book was published now. It can be said that this book was completely powered by love.

This is also the main reason why he only planned to write 200,000 to 300,000 words for this book.

Generate electricity with love! Of course, the amount of electricity generated is limited.

If he hadn't wanted to seize the title of "the originator of online literature", he wouldn't have written this book at all, let alone posted it online now.

In order to extend the serialization period of this short work, Cao Sheng did not publish much today. Apart from the title and introduction, he only published the first chapter today.

Moreover, he does not plan to update it every day.

He had already decided to update a chapter every three days at most.

If the situation requires, he can even update a chapter every week.

Anyway, the book "First Intimate Contact" has not been published yet, and his book "Living with the Air Hostess" is most likely the first online novel. There is no competitor, so of course there is no need to compete with others in updating speed.

Most importantly - he wanted to give the book longer circulation.

If the update is too fast, the book may be completed before its fame spreads.

A work that does not become popular during its serialization period is difficult to be remembered and discussed with others.

(End of this chapter)