After rebirth, I found out that I have a childhood sweetheart

Xia Yuan muttered, "It would be nice to have a guitar! I really like guitar now."

Xia Yuan's study in the guitar class stagnated for a while because of physics, but Xia Yuan had a foundation in various musical instruments after all. Although Mei Fang took many courses secretly, his learning progress was not much faster than Xia Yuan's.

Lin Youxi also shared the information he got after talking with Li Shibing:

"According to the situation of our school in previous years, there are about 20 students who are admitted directly to Baigao High School through pre-admission or high school entrance examination, but only five or six of them go to Jiangcheng Normal University No. High School."

"But...it seems that these five or six students are not all the top students. Teacher Li said that the top 30 students in our grade actually have a chance to be admitted."

Mei Fang and Lin Youxi have always been the first and second in their class, and have never fallen out of the top 5 in their grade. From this point of view, it is indeed very easy to get into Jiangcheng Normal University No. just by looking at the ranking.

As for Xia Yuan...she can be in the top 20 when physics is not difficult, but it is still not stable enough. When physics becomes difficult, she can drop to the top 60.

"Hey, is it that easy? I thought the entrance exam to Jiangcheng Normal University No. 1 Affiliated High School was more difficult."

“This is actually another reason…”

Mei Fang explained, "After all, Jiangcheng Normal University No. 1 is a high school in Jiangcheng, the provincial capital. If students from county towns want to go there, tuition fees may only be a small part. Living expenses, rent, and the cost of accompanying their children, all kinds of expenses add up to a lot in a year. It will be a bit difficult for ordinary families in small county towns. In addition, it is far from home, and parents may not be at ease."

"Ah, study with me?"

Xia Yuan immediately showed a puzzled expression after hearing this, "Doesn't Jiangcheng Normal University No. 1 have student dormitories? Don't we have to live on campus?"

"Of course there is, but because most of the students are locals, the school allows day students and living on campus is not mandatory. But if you live in a dormitory, the environment is not very good..."

Anyway, if he was admitted to the First Affiliated High School of Jiangcheng Normal University, Mei Fang would definitely not want to live on campus, as that would be too inconvenient for him to carry out activities other than studying.

"Indeed, indeed! This is good!"

Xia Yuan clapped his hands and said, "If we all get into Jiangcheng Normal University, the three of us can rent a house together!"

After hearing this, Lin Youxi looked at Xia Yuan blankly, while Mei Fang hit Xia Yuan's head mercilessly?

"You're already thinking about something so far ahead before we even start thinking about this... What's going on in your mind?"

"Of course I have very grand ideals in my mind!"

Xia Yuan clenched her fists and shouted loudly, "I, Xia Yuan, must be admitted to the best high school in Chubei Province and become a super popular female high school student at Jiangcheng Normal School!"

"It seems like you have completely given up on Bai Gao..."

After having sincere and earnest conversations with their respective parents, although there were still many concerns, the three parents all expressed their support for the idea of ​​Mei Youyuan and his three children to enter Jiangcheng Normal University No. 1 and Baigao High School. After all, whether they can pass the exam is another matter, and their parents at least will not be the bad guys who prevent their children from going to higher education institutions.

After discussing with the class teacher, the three of them withdrew from the gifted class at the same time, and Xia Yuan was finally able to end the torture of competitive physics and focus again on studying for the difficulty of the high school entrance examination.

Her study plan included music specialty, so she picked up the instrument that she had not practiced for a long time since entering junior high school and began to prepare for the art specialty test.

The summer of 2010 should have belonged to the era of "Exploring the Service" and "Gray Avatar", but the three giants of Penguin Music were still nowhere to be seen.

Mei Fang sometimes wondered whether Brother Hao of this era would really study medicine seriously and become a doctor to cure diseases and save lives.

Seeing the opportunity for the third wealth expansion, that is, the upcoming 2010 World Cup, Mei Fang is also preparing to withdraw his savings for a big gamble.

At the same time, the C station that he, Lin Youxi and many other ACG fans created with love finally ushered in its first explosion point——

A ghost video based on Ge Ping was uploaded on Station C.

Chapter 119 Let Youxi Make the Decision

"Hi kids, do you remember who I am? By the way, I am the actor who voiced Blue Cat - Ge Ping!"

As a representative work of early domestic animation, "Blue Cat's Three Thousand Questions" and its various derivative works are childhood memories of many people born in the 80s and 90s. Its main feature is that it cleverly combines some scientific knowledge while telling stories. Depending on the series, it includes knowledge in various fields such as military, animals, and common sense of life.

But with the development of the Internet era, netizens began to be active in various forums, and comments praising the Blue Cat series as the first masterpiece of domestic animation continued to emerge. Naturally, there were also many voices of opposition. In addition, the reputation of a series of sequels in recent years has gradually declined. In the process of constant controversy, Ge Ping, as the voice actor of the main popular character Blue Cat, has also been subjected to many spoofs.

This ghost video uploaded to Station C is only 3 minutes long, but it has been played more than 3000 times in a week.

3000 times may be just a small amount in the Internet age of the future, where millions of views are easily available, but for Mei Fang and Lin Youxi's small C Station, it was a dimensionality reduction attack. They spent several nights rushing to deal with the problem of server traffic overload and collapse.

“Why are people talking about this kind of video so much?”

Lin Youxi also watched the "Ge Pao" ghost video herself. She didn't like it very much. "This kind of crude editing is just a simple spoof attack on Teacher Ge Ping. Why are people so happy about it?"

“I think it’s a different perspective.”

Mei Fang explained, "For example, heavy metal music and death punk, many people don't like them and think they are noise, but many people also enjoy them. It's normal that you find ghost animal spoof videos offensive, while some people just think they are funny. After all, everyone has a lot of pressure in life, and watching some originally serious characters doing crazy ghost animal videos can relax to a certain extent."

"However, personal attacks are indeed not good, and this is true. But if the person involved doesn't mind, then it should be fine..."

Mei Fang himself actually doesn't like the creative content of ghost animals. He only occasionally watches some funny ghost animals that are not very aggressive, but he clearly remembers that this incident in his previous life was a very important event that broke the circle. It seemed to have happened on Station A that year, but this time it appeared on Station C by chance.

Mei Fang saw that the number of people registering to become official members was soaring, from two or three per day before to forty or fifty per day now.

Becoming a formal member also means that they have the right to post barrages and upload videos, but... then again, are the bandwidth fees serious?

Streaming video sites often have to pay two parts of server fees. One part is the cost of storage resources, that is, the resources stored on your website, such as videos uploaded by everyone and your account data.

Another expense is the bandwidth fee. Whether website users can play your video online smoothly depends on the capacity of your bandwidth.

If your bandwidth is small, but there are many users playing videos online at the same time, there will be insufficient bandwidth and cause lag.

Mei Fang previously had a 20M server bandwidth, which supported up to 100 people watching online videos at the same time without lag, and the monthly fee was 1200 yuan; now he wants to increase the speed to 100M, and the fee has soared to 10 yuan a year, or 8000 yuan a month.

No wonder many people say that running a video website is just burning money. Then where did Station A and Station B get so much money back then?

We really rely on financing to make a living!

After seeing the exaggerated bandwidth costs, Mei Fang now has a feeling that he has made a wrong move. On the one hand, C Station is indeed replicating the prosperous path of Bilibili in its previous life, but it does not have a very stable cash flow. As for C Station itself, it will have to wait for several years before it can make money.

He created C Station because he was eager to occupy the Bilibili track that did not exist in his previous life, and was unable to focus his already limited energy on game production. It is still too early for BIK currency to play a role. Although his savings are already quite scary, considering the way video websites burn money with their bandwidth, he does not have that much money to burn.

Mei Fang did not let Lin Youxi worry too much about money. He just asked her to concentrate on studying the website technology. At the end of June 10, Lin Youxi, who was in charge of maintaining the website operations, brought Mei Fang a new message. She said that she received a private message from an Internet company called Manhattan Technology. Mei Fang had never heard of this company's name in her previous life, but the other party offered to pay 6 to buy the domain name of C Station, plus the development source code of C Station.

Mei Fang was not in a hurry after receiving this, nor did he show much excitement on his face. He looked at Lin Youxi who was staring at the private message.

"If the other party really wants to buy it, are you willing to sell this website to him?"

Lin Youxi shook her head. "You made the website yourself, Fang. You decide on it."

"How could I have done this?"

Mei Fang smiled and said, "I just worked with you on the basic module at the beginning, and you will be responsible for the time and energy for the subsequent maintenance."

"But the money spent on the website is all from Ah Fang..."

"But I didn't pay you, did I?"

Lin Youxi stopped talking.

Mei Fang continued, "You should know that the name of this site is C Station. It is your website. You decide whether to sell it or not."

It is indeed a bit difficult and cruel for a child like Lin Youxi to make this decision. After all, for a child to earn 10 yuan is already a remarkable thing.

But selling it also means that all the hard work of the past few years has turned into this little money.

Youxi has been studying the technology of streaming video websites for a long time and has a rough idea of ​​where he stands.

If this is all she values ​​about the website, Mei Fang cannot expect her to lead Station C to go further on her own. It would be better to ask her to concentrate on making games. Besides, there are many well-known game developers waiting for Mei Fang to invest.

"Afang... I still don't want to sell it."

Lin Youxi shook her head. "I think our C Station can go further. If we don't have enough money now, the bandwidth can be left as it is now. I can continue to play as a power leveler, and I can deduct some money from my meal card... As long as C Station can continue to gain fame, we will be able to attract investment one day, what do you think?"

Mei Fang shook his head.

"The wheel of time is rolling forward. Now is the era of 3G. If C Station has lags even when playing 360p videos, it will lose its competitiveness in the market. If it continues like this, C Station's reputation will only get worse and worse, and it will not attract any investment at all."

"So... you think we should sell this website?"

Lin Youxi looked a little dejected. "Since Ah Fang also thinks so, there's nothing we can do..."

"Ah, don't misunderstand me."

Mei Fang explained, “What I mean is that Station C must increase its bandwidth, otherwise it will not be able to continue to expand and will not be able to attract large capital investment.”

"But...just to upgrade the bandwidth to 100M will cost nearly yuan a month, right?"

"It doesn't matter... Although I also think it's ridiculously expensive, maybe we don't need to stick with it for a year to attract investment?"

"Ah Fang... do you really have so much money?" Lin Youxi looked very surprised. "Did you earn it from playing games?"

Mei Fang nodded and smiled, "Just believe me."

Chapter 120 Layout and Planning

In the early days, Pingguo's app store was in an era of mixed quality and wild growth, and a well-made game could easily get recommended.

Before this, Mei Fang's "The Early Bird Gets the Start" had been featured on the app store twice. Before the third time, it had already exceeded 10,000 downloads.

When "The Early Bird Gets the Flow" was featured on the App Store for the third time, two major events happened to happen.

The first thing is the official launch of Pingguo 4. Compared with its enhanced version 4S, this model cannot be regarded as a very successful masterpiece, and the antenna gate incident also made it subject to much criticism.

But it brought Pingguo's sales to a level close to 4000 million, and it was also what truly opened the door to the Chinese market, making countless Chinese people begin to become keen on the cliché of "trading a kidney for the Pingguo three-piece set."

The second thing is that the number of visits to a famous social platform website Facebook has officially surpassed that of Yahoo, becoming the second largest website in the Beacon Country, second only to Google.

The successful rise of Facebook also demonstrates the tremendous strength and development prospects of social networking sites. People's use of the Internet has evolved from a simple tool to a necessity of life.

These two things seem to be unrelated, but in fact they have caused a series of chain reactions, which ultimately led to one result -

"Flappybird", also known as "The Early Bird Gets the Notice", became an overnight sensation after being featured on the App Store for the third time, topping the free download list in North America.

The success of "Old Bird First" does not lie in how rich and interesting its gameplay is, because it itself is a gaming miracle born out of social networks.

At first, some early players downloaded the game because they had nothing to do.

At the beginning, the spread was just the roar of these players. They might feel very angry after dying again and again, or they might feel extremely excited after dying again and again and finally surpassing themselves and stepping on the historical record. In short, they would share their experiences and records and post them on Facebook, Tet, or other emerging social platforms.

Later, as the game spread in their social media circles, more and more players flocked to it.

Compared with previous works, Mei Fang paid more attention to its social touch experience when designing version 1.0. In the game, you can clone your platform friends by binding to a Facebook account, and there will be a weekly ranking list to settle the friend rankings.

Young users love to share, record, compete and review. When they see someone among their friends surpass themselves, they will desperately continue to play. Of course, for Mei Fang, it means endless advertising income;

Some people also saw that their friends on social platforms who had never played games before appeared in their game rankings. Just by being curious about the content shared by everyone, a general Internet user successfully became a part of the game.

Many people began to write review documents and columns for "Old Bird Found First" to analyze its theory of success, but some people pointed out that this kind of game is not worthy of being called a real game and is a desecration of the ninth art.

But no matter what the reputation of this game is, it has become a super hit on the App Store before it became popular in China. The number of downloads quickly soared from 1 to 200 million, and began to gradually top the free list of App Store platforms in various regions outside North America.

The explosion of popularity does not mean that the producer himself will also gain a good reputation. In his previous life, Mei Fang had heard about the rumors and various criticisms and accusations against the producer, so he refused to accept any interviews and refused to open any private messages. However, the English messages were too long and he did not want to read them one by one.

After all, the game itself is not the type that Mei Fang himself likes. To put it bluntly, he just relies on this social game to make money quickly, get his first pot of gold, and then start making some conscientious games.