20 years of Internet café memory

In that period belong to you my days, there is a memory called upgrade, there is a story called a team, a feeling called all night

"Where to play tonight?" ”

"An internet café all night." ”

Ten years ago, such dialogues were spoken in a variety of dialects, and resounded through the Chinese Earth--which one and the other had no memory of internet cafes? After the golden period of ten years, the Internet café is now a kind of sunset industry. How long have you been to the Internet café?

But because of a paper, the topic of Internet cafes was reopened. At the end of November, the Ministry of Culture, Industrial and Commercial Administration, Ministry of Public Security and Ministry of Industry issued a notice to completely release Internet cafes. This means that restrictions on the registration of new Internet cafes are almost non-existent.

So, memories poured in.

Internet cafes in China for nearly 20 years, along with the development of the Internet and the popularity of domestic networks, stumbled along with us to this day. In this process, the Internet café has been in a gray area where all sides despise, play its irreplaceable role, now it is free, facing is confused the road ahead.

When the dispute and the memory coexist, remember and reflect will come to everyone's heart.

Golden

1995, the United States across the ocean to complete the laying of the Internet, the whole nation celebrates into the "information superhighway" era. In the same year, with the acceleration of urbanization, China began to use reinforced concrete to build large-scale intercity highways, while groping to embark on the "information superhighway."

In the spring of that year, a huge billboard was erected outside Beijing's Zhongguancun, which clearly read: "How far are the Chinese people from the information superhighway--to the north 1500 meters".

This billboard became one of the most concerned business events in the year, and a company called "Yinghai Granville" created the predecessor of the Chinese Internet Café, "Yinghai Granville Network Science and Technology Museum."

In the next few months, the "3c+t" Network coffee House in Shanghai, Beijing's capital Stadium also opened a "real China Open Network Café" Internet café. The earliest Internet cafes appeared in two of China's most developed cities, the country's internet enlightenment.

In an era when color television has not been fully popularized, computers are a luxury in absolute terms, and the Internet has not yet reached public view. To the first group of people who walked into the Internet café, they knew an unprecedented world. There, there is no space for information, and people who are miles away can communicate by mail. Through simple word of mouth, "net" this thing temporarily become a national novelty.

That is the earliest stage, a single family want to access the network is very difficult, but the advent of Internet cafes can greatly reduce the first generation of Internet access costs, the end of the 90 Internet cafes, credit to Wei.

Into the 21st century, the network spread out, speed up, increase the number of users, the most important is the network of games blossom. At that time, the role of Internet cafes began to change to entertainment. During the period, the government is also more relaxed in management, less intervention, internet cafes in China everywhere, into the golden period of development.

There was a loud and popular slogan called "To Want to send, open an Internet café": In addition to the Internet and bag night fees, internet cafes also rely on selling game point cards and Q coins to make money. Slightly larger internet cafes, one day income can reach thousands of yuan, at that time is a windfall.

Controversy and discrimination

Internet cafes in so many years of development process, it let the network close to our life, but it has become a lot of problems in the root.

Due to the long-term lack of supervision, the late 90 to the early 21st century Internet cafes in a large number of violent, pornographic content, internet cafes also from the original leisure venues, gradually known as the social unauthorized people and other distribution center. With the development of online games, the number of Internet cafes is increasing, pornography, violence, minors online, game addiction and other problems began to increase, the youth addicted to the network news also began to press.

Internet cafes online costs also with the development of the times to become cheap, this cheap is not a bad thing, but cheap bring is low quality. The image of Internet cafes slowly deteriorate, can not be compared with the newcomer.

A 2002 fire, the end of the Internet café into the plight of the predicament. That year June, the university on the north side of Beijing, a college on the road, called "Blue Speed" of the Internet café was four high school students arson. When the fire, the owner of the Internet café to prevent guests from escaping, the door locked, resulting in the death of 25 people, half of them are students.

In October of that year, the government issued the "Internet Access Service Establishments management regulations", the focus is to prohibit minors access to Internet cafes. Since 2003, the country began to implement the "No new batch of a single Internet café" policy.

A problem with the difficulty of vetting and approving is the breeding of a spectacular number of black Internet cafes. They are almost in line with all the outside bias: poor ventilation, poor lighting, dark environment, air pollution, and a large number of students truancy. An increasing number of "education experts" began to hurt the internet cafes, the two words behind the news newspaper on a young ignorant of the road of depravity.

In addition, before 2002, Internet cafes were levied at a 5% tax rate, but from 2003 onwards, local governments began to take the highest rate of entertainment for Internet cafes, that is, 20% of the revenue by tax. This policy head-on hit is the 2004 after the network explosion, the popularity of home internet, eventually let Internet cafes began to suffer 10 years of strife.

But even so, there are still Oicq, legendary worlds, Diablo, CS, Warcraft, and more importantly, there is a game atmosphere and unfettered freedom that can not be realized elsewhere.

Change for two generations.

20 can be divided into one generation.

A paper, you can let Internet cafes in the harsh criticism, regain identity. But those who had been in the Internet Café Night-day out of the youth, has long beard full cheeks. But looking back, the dark environment, cloudy air and the mixture of the flavor of the bubble, flashing screen and excited little friends, will again let the lacrimal gland developed. In that period belong to you my days, there is a memory called upgrade, there is a story called a team, a feeling called all night.

China initially had only 620,000 internet users, and now has more than 600 million. But in this terminal has already popularized, the mobile Internet is changing everything today, the network is up, the Internet bar is in the downward. It can only adapt to the times, to obediently do a 20-year cultural symbol, buried deep in the hearts of the young.

The traditional business model of Internet cafes is no longer suitable for this era. The announcement, issued jointly by the four ministries, is also encouraging the diversification of Internet cafes. "Internet café" to "net Café" the transformation is a very good example-the Internet café no longer to provide network connectivity services, but based on this, with food and beverage draw card board games and other diversified services. And from the portrait of 20, this seems to be a return: the first internet café in Shanghai, Beijing, is the spirit of this model.

History repeats itself, but time does not come again. Few people will remember, the first time into the Internet café is when, but from the red police to StarCraft, from the legendary to Warcraft, from the CS to DotA, these in the Internet Café Rage game, has long been "with the wind into the night", into a collective memory and culture.

Many years later, there may be a scene all over China: a group of old men, playing the various background music of the network game decades ago, in the lonely of the square, the crowd dance, old man talk about teenage crazy. (article excerpts from titanium Media)