Ten years I'm back on the road to the Internet

96 to Beijing University, when the network from our remote, the first time to the school room with Netscape browser to browse the campus BBS, feel very magical, after graduation, turned a lot of software companies, software companies on the surface is also dealing with computers, but with the network company is actually a world of difference, The nature of software companies or traditional industries, do products and sales, in fact, there is not too much innovation, step-by-step type, an individual in that industry, the creativity is suppressed, in that industry atmosphere, as an engineer, the vision is very limited, only to see the technology development of the three acres of farmland, Now see a lot of engineers or marketers from the software industry to the network industry, happy for them, not I deliberately to belittle the software industry, empathy, perhaps just not suitable for me to develop there.

In the software company for almost 5 years, in fact, has missed the internet a lot of development opportunities, think about, from 96 to 2005, the Internet industry began to rise and fall, has changed dramatically, 2000 has been a depression, but also let many people doubt that the industry can be durable, But insisting on digging deep in them now should have been small achievements. 2007, I went to work in a real-world network company, although still engaged in technical work, but has begun to understand the internet some of the industry knowledge, such as positioning, promotion, product planning, profit model and so on, until 2008 4, May, suddenly feel beginning to understand the Internet, can be positioning, promotion, Business models are strung together to think, and there is a sense that you have to start practicing, soon, buy space, take the website, calculate up, half a year past, have already had 3 websites, a blog, a community forum, a navigation station, after all, is a novice, all aspects are rough, but the individual or optimistic, should also insist on doing, After all, the workplace for many years, learning ability, social experience, building a team and other capabilities are also counted to go, and then a multi-year accumulation, a certain start-up funds or have, in the admin5 to see a lot of young webmaster even students to buy a space and domain name hesitate, at least this aspect is not too many obstacles, Once the optimistic model of the market test, have a stable visit, immediately can build a team to focus on investment.

Count up, more than 5 years of software industry career, from the initial VB programming, all the way through the Java, VC, PHP and other mainstream languages, various frameworks, the transformation of the Internet, and soon adapted to the network programming, which has benefited from the accumulation of technology for many years, more importantly, now the individual to do the station, technical basic is no obstacle, On the market, all kinds of mainstream software or website, basically can pour out their realization way. The technical background is a double-edged sword, easy to lose people, at first I was also holding to do a website very simple attitude, always want to have something to write a line, and then use some open source framework, feel no need to do duplication of work, to do a successful webmaster and do a good engineer there is a big difference, Stationmaster should from the profit promotion and the product and so on aspect comprehensive consideration, must not bury oneself in the concrete technical detail, may use some open source code, again suitably adds own innovation, when necessary only then chooses own to build from the beginning.

Feel feeling, is found to have been with the network pass by, it was so close to me that I did not discover its beauty, and at university I had heard Charles Zhang's lectures (at that time he had to go to college to make a speech to raise his profile, and now he did not need it), but he never had a thorough study of the field. Now more than 10 years have passed, turned a lot of companies, but also worked in different places, for several years, occasionally always have a feeling of melancholy, and now there is no vitality, more mature and vicissitudes, but as if it is Providence guidelines, back to the network industry, a plunge down, unexpectedly addicted to extricate themselves.

Always feel that you are lucky, their most expected things, can always experience a tortuous after the graduation, the vision of the limited, then only think: if the monthly salary of XX to meet, after a few years, very want to learn English, the result of a strange way into foreign companies, a few months past, English is not a problem. Man's life, maybe it is like this, as if there is always a pair of invisible hands in the dark in time to push you, when you are very eager to achieve a certain goal, you will always experience some setbacks, but often always in your despair, caught in the gap but suddenly revealed the light, you see the hope.