novelraw Chapter 490 : Thirty Years of Internet Turbulence
Chapter 490 : Thirty Years of Internet Turbulence
Chapter 490: Thirty Years of Internet Turbulence
What was Chen Fan's thesis about?
It was about a summary of domestic internet research and investigation, as well as Chen Fan's outlook on the future of the internet.
For example, in the introduction, Chen Fan provided an overview of the development history of the domestic internet through a summary.
At the same time, he stated that the research purpose of this thesis was to analyze the main achievements of the domestic internet, the challenges it faces, and the future development directions and trends.
In the main body, Chen Fan used one-third of the content to introduce the domestic internet from its first introduction and development in 1990 to its rapid development in 2000.
During this period, he interspersed introductions about how some domestic business pioneers had already begun to explore and innovate business models.
The remaining nearly two-thirds of the content was all about Chen Fan's development and outlook for the future of the domestic internet.
Chen Fan inserted a large amount of literature review and data analysis to support his views, showing that they were not groundless or unfounded.
For example, Chen Fan said that although the domestic internet had experienced the internet winter of 2000, with a large number of internet startups being wiped out in the wave.
Some people believed that there was no internet entrepreneurial gene in China, and it was impossible to nurture truly large internet companies.
But Chen Fan believed this was wrong.
He believed that the potential of the domestic internet was unlimited, and he even boldly predicted that in the next few years, a large number of internet startups would emerge in China.
These companies would form the basic ecosystem of the domestic internet.
Then Chen Fan judged that in the next 3 to 4 years, China would closely follow international steps and fully enter the 3G commercial era.
The emergence of the 3G era would completely change the internet ecosystem, and Chinese netizens would also enter a true network era of music, media, and video from the internet media forms of text and images.
The 3G era would bring not only a significant increase in network speed, but also the birth of a large number of internet startups, and the domestic internet would enter the second wave of entrepreneurship.
In addition, the changes brought by the 3G era would be all-encompassing.
For example, Chen Fan predicted that future music would gradually transition from CD and tape sales models to online music models. Online video would also usher in a true spring.
Besides, the biggest change would be the revolution in mobile phones.
Here, Chen Fan boldly predicted that in the next few years, the mobile phone industry would completely transition from ordinary feature phones to the era of smartphones.
What is a smartphone?
Chen Fan gave a simple overview, in simple terms, it's a miniature version of a laptop computer.
People can make video calls, send and receive emails, chat online, surf the internet, watch videos, and take higher resolution photos on their phones.
The emergence of smartphones would completely represent humanity's entry into the mobile internet era, and the distance between people would be infinitely shortened.
At that time, the new entrepreneurial wave would lean towards the mobile end.
To sum it up in one sentence: Whoever wins the mobile end wins the world!
As for the next 20 to 30 years of the internet, Chen Fan also made simple predictions.
He predicted that it would take about 20 years to go from learning and catching up, to catching up, and finally far surpassing other countries in the world.
This time point would appear in the 5G commercial era.
In addition, at the end of the thesis, Chen Fan seemed to get carried away and couldn't stop writing. In his excitement, he boldly wrote down a lot of future internet trends.
Such as sharing economy, data center, cloud computing, Internet of Things, open platforms, new ecosystems, fan economy, communities, logistics, data security...
At the very end.
Chen Fan made a bold statement that although the domestic internet started late, with the spirit of hard work and diligence of the Chinese people, in the next 20 to 30 years, several true internet leading companies would be born in China. And they would even go abroad and conquer internationally...
Chinese internet technology would one day be far ahead of the international level.
While Chen Fan had written to his heart's content, Professor Chen was getting a headache reading it.
If he could understand the review and summary at the beginning, and could comprehend part of the judgments and development trends about the 3G era later on.
But when it came to the last few paragraphs of the thesis, Professor Chen couldn't understand at all.
What is sharing economy, what is data center, cloud computing... what are these things?
He couldn't understand at all!
"Well..."
After looking through the materials for a long time, Professor Chen couldn't find any introduction to these terms, he deduced that these terms might have been coined by Chen Fan.
So Professor Chen had to look up at Chen Fan, who was wolfing down his food across from him.
This guy...
Probably only he could eat so unselfconsciously in his office.
Seeing Professor Chen staring at him, Chen Fan pulled out a tissue to wipe his mouth and walked over.
"Are you full?"
"Yes. Thank you for treating me, Professor."
Professor Chen smiled and then pointed at the thesis.
"Are you sure you wrote this thesis yourself? Without anyone's help?"
"I'm sure."
Professor Chen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"That's good."
"I've read the thesis, it's... not bad. But..."
"Some parts are written too exaggeratedly, alarmist, and nonsensical..."
Chen Fan didn't argue, just nodded with a smile to show acceptance.
As long as his thesis could pass, that was fine.
"Professor, does this mean my thesis has passed?"
Professor Chen nodded and then shook his head.
"Not yet. Some parts still need to be modified, and some parts need to be rephrased..."
"But don't worry, I'll help you revise it later."
Chen Fan's face lit up: "Thank you, Professor."
"Don't thank me yet. I want to hear your thoughts on the future development trends of the internet in the thesis, especially the parts about 3G commercialization and mobile phone revolution."
Chen Fan took a look, turned around and pulled over a chair to sit down.
"Professor..."
Professor Chen raised his hand: "Don't be so formal, just call me teacher from now on."
So Chen Fan nodded and continued.
"Teacher, you know I'm running a startup, and I also have an internet company, regarding the development of the internet..."
Then one spoke and one listened, one asked and one answered.
It took about an hour for this conversation to end.
Professor Chen took a deep breath, and when he looked at Chen Fan again, his eyes had changed.
This student was extraordinary.
Now he could confirm that Chen Fan's previous success was definitely not a fluke.
Because through this conversation, he could see that Chen Fan had substance, and not just a little.
Especially in the internet sector, many of this kid's views were even far beyond his own.
Looking at the thesis in his hand, Professor Chen's eyes were somewhat excited and enthusiastic.
He had a feeling that this would become a heavyweight thesis.
"Xiao Chen..."
Professor Chen's tone became even more enthusiastic. His way of addressing Chen Fan had directly changed to Xiao Chen.
"Rest assured, I will personally revise this thesis word by word for you."
"By the way, this part at the end of the thesis..."
Chen Fan took a look, it was about predictions made about future industry trends such as data center, cloud computing, Internet of Things, etc.
Chen Fan smiled.
"I got carried away when I was writing that, just wrote it randomly. Professor, if you think it's inappropriate, just delete those parts."
Professor Chen frowned, seeming somewhat undecided.
"Professor, if there's nothing else, I'll take my leave."
"Hmm, alright..."
Professor Chen responded absent-mindedly, and even after Chen Fan left, he was still staring at the thesis.
For some reason, although Chen Fan had spoken lightly about it earlier, he had a feeling that what was written at the end of the thesis was definitely not Chen Fan talking nonsense.
Should he delete it or not?