Reborn: I'll Never Fail My Childhood Sweetheart Again-Chapter 242 - 108: First Day’s Results—Mori Exceeds 10,000!_3

"Hehe, not bad."

Su Zelin smiled slightly.

"Of course, it's a chain store, big investment, nice environment, and dozens of demo machines. It's really worthy of being called a flagship store. How could those little rinky-dink shops compare!"

With Hou Yongjin's keen eye, he couldn't even see through this, which means Su Zelin's bluff was successful. Everyone believed New Era was a chain store.

"The key is Ah Ping got this machine 200 bucks cheaper than the one our third buddy bought at the computer city, and he also got a big stack of CDs as gifts. Such a bargain!"

Feng Zhongliang chuckled, "Next time I get a computer I'll head over to New Era too!"

Zeng Kaiping was already using his new machine.

While others were still browsing official websites or talking to salespeople, the tech-savvy youngster had already placed his first order at lightning speed, earning himself a few extra gifts in the process.

Now, he's multitasking, chatting on QQ and downloading movies.

Using his own machine is indeed satisfying, he can download anything from Mayday without worry.

He wasn't aware of viruses or trojans before and often used Su Zelin's machine to surf those small sites, resulting in Kaspersky sometimes triggering hundreds of alerts, making the young guy feel embarrassed.

But with his own machine, it's no big deal, let it be infected if it must!

According to the third buddy, viruses and trojans are just programs after all.

He couldn't believe they could ever really ruin his computer!

Seeing Su Zelin return, the tech-savvy youngster looked up, "Third buddy, thanks, I saved money today. I'll treat everyone to dinner and drinks some other day!"

Zeng Kaiping was quite generous, happy or not, he'd treat people to food and drinks. After graduation, if anyone went to Flower City and didn't get him to treat them, the Hed local would get upset, saying it means you don't consider him a brother.

"Hehe, alright, then I'll wait for it. But I'm afraid during New Year's I might be too busy!"

Su Zelin smiled.

"No problem, third buddy, get busy first, no rush!"

At this point, Zeng Kaiping remembered something, "Oh, right, help me out, why is my download so slow, not as fast as your machine, and the download interface is different too."

Su Zelin leaned over to check, and found this guy was using IE's built-in tool to download porn. This tool's feature is single-threaded, and the longer it downloads, the slower it gets.

Although the tech-savvy youth was pretty slick at QQ chatting and playing games, he had no clue about computer software technology.

"You need to switch to a different download tool, or you'll be downloading this till dawn!"

"Sweat, third buddy, help me out here."

Zeng Kaiping vacated his seat.

"Ah Ping, you can't just be good at chatting on QQ, you need to learn a bit more."

Su Zelin shook his head and casually searched online for a download tool.

The first decade of New Era saw a flourishing variety of download tools.

There was Net Ants, and Free Download Manager back then.

Later came eDonkey, BitComet, BitSpirit, the epoch-making VaGaa, StreamTransport, along with Tencent's QQ Tornado, and the notorious QVOD, which was considered an initiation software for many.

There weren't any speed limit restrictions for these download software at the time, as long as you had enough bandwidth, the download speed could fly, making downloads thoroughly enjoyable.

Unfortunately, these good software were phased out due to operational issues in later years. Even Tencent's QQ Tornado announced its shutdown in September 2017, leaving Thunder to dominate the scene.

Thunder used to be quite fair when there were other competitors, but once it monopolized the industry, it turned obnoxious, with malicious speed limits for non-members and relentless advertisement bombardment, treating users with disregard.

Despite the annoyance, users still had to use it, as there were no good alternatives. Those slightly knowledgeable could find modified ad-free or speed-unlocked versions online, but clueless users had no choice.

Su Zelin quickly set up Net Ants for Zeng Kaiping, where small dots on the right download interface crawled forward like little ants, hence the name.

With a third-party download tool, the speed indeed improved significantly.

Having sorted it out for the tech-savvy youth, Su Zelin also turned on his own machine.

He had been busy all day and hadn't had time to check his QQ messages yet.

Mobile QQ wasn't launched until 2003, which was very inconvenient.

Upon logging in, he saw Lu Haoran's message, but his buddy's QQ icon was dim.

Upon opening it, nothing major was going on, just sharing some recent campus life anecdotes and chatting about Xiaoyanzi, which was the most common topic between the honest man and Su Zelin on QQ.

"Di di di!"

At this moment, Qin Shiqing's QQ icon started blinking.

Now that the childhood friend Xiaoyanzi had learned to go invisible on QQ, perhaps due to being frequently disturbed as a beauty, Su Zelin couldn't discern if she was online. After all, back then, anti-invisiblity features and hacked Rainbow QQ had not yet been born.

Sunny Day: "Zelin, how's work at the store today? [Winks]"

Qin Shiqing knew the loafer was part-timing at the newly opened computer city at the College of Finance and didn't know this store was owned by Su Zelin.

One-Year-Old Handsome: "Not too bad, no air force!"

Sunny Day: "Air force?"

One-Year-Old Handsome: "A fishing term, means not even a single catch."

Sunny Day: "So you sold a computer?"

One-Year-Old Handsome: "Of course, as the store manager, how could I save face if it was all air force!"

Sunny Day: "Haha, congratulations then, I heard your computer store is quite large and the environment's nice, lots of people there today for the opening too."

One-Year-Old Handsome: "Uh, how did you know?"

Sunny Day: "There's a thread about it on the finance college BBS, I sometimes check it out."

Su Zelin hadn't had time to post today, but many active users on the campus BBS were discussing this topic.

One-Year-Old Handsome: "Sweat, you're from Zhejiang University, what are you doing at our school's BBS!"

Sunny Day: "Haha, just browsing, they're all Lin'an colleges' BBS anyway. Hmm, when I have time, I'll come and check out your digital shop."

One-Year-Old Handsome: "Didn't you buy a computer already, are you just fooling around?"

Sunny Day: "I'm just curious about how you look when you're working, I never imagined you working for someone before! [Covers mouth and laughs]"

One-Year-Old Handsome: "Running over for something like that, Qin Shiqing, aren't you bored!"

Sunny Day: "Hmph, mind your own business, isn't it more boring for someone to secretly go to Zhejiang University to watch a cultural performance last time!"

One-Year-Old Handsome: "That's different, the vice president of your department's student union warmly invited me, I was just doing him a favor!"

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