Reborn Russia as an oligarch

Chapter 578 is very innovative
Entering Sergey's room, it was still as messy as the last time I saw it, with all kinds of things randomly placed.

A computer is placed on the desk, and two small spherical monitors are placed side by side.

Another computer mainframe was placed on the ground, and all kinds of network cables and power cables were in disorder. Be careful not to trip over when walking.

The main computer made a "humming" sound, and the heat emitted made the temperature inside the room several degrees higher than outside.

Sergey picked up the dirty clothes from the chair and threw them on the bed, letting Wang Ye sit down.

He turned around and opened the small refrigerator in the corner, and took out two bottles of cold beer.

Wang Ye took a beer, sat down, and glanced at the computer screen. It was full of lines of code, which he couldn't understand.

He smiled and asked, "Sergey, you are a senior this year, aren't you thinking of going out to find an internship or something?"

Sergey raised his head and took a sip of beer, breathed a sigh of relief, and then replied: "I don't have time to find a job. I am now responsible for maintaining the school's local area network. This is a job. Although the salary is not high, it is good. Free time to do what you want.”

In Russia, the Internet fee is still quite high. When Wang Ye used to rent an apartment, the monthly Internet fee was more than 180 US dollars!

You know, that was 2001.

The monthly salary of a university teacher is only four to five hundred dollars.

However, in school, the Internet fee is relatively cheap, which can be regarded as one of the benefits of students.

For example, the dormitory of Youda is a monthly subscription of 45 US dollars, with unlimited traffic, but don't expect the speed of the Internet to be so fast.

It's okay to read a webpage or something, but in those days, it really didn't need a fast internet speed.

On Moda's side, the Internet fee is even cheaper, only $25 per month, which is also a monthly subscription.

And because of the large number of students, the local area network is quite good, and it also has its own server.

The most famous one is the various shared resources in their LAN server.

It is said that the size of a small pornographic film alone is as high as several hundred gigabytes!

You know, the small movies at that time were only one or two hundred MB.

Therefore, students from other schools often come here especially to copy small movie resources with their hard drives.

Wang Ye in his previous life also did such a thing...

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Being able to get the job of maintaining the school's local area network in a large number of talents, it is obvious that Sergey's technology is also quite good.

Because this job is not easy, it also involves helping students pull the network cable to open the network, even assembling computers, and daily maintenance of servers.

You must be proficient in both hardware and software in order to do it.

Wang Ye nodded, and asked again: "You are about to graduate soon. What are your plans after graduation? Do you want to work or continue to study for a Ph.D.? If you do a Ph.D., should you stay in Moscow State University or study abroad?"

This question may have touched Sergey's pain point.

He silently drank two sips of beer, then squeezed the almost empty beer can in his hand, chattering loudly.

After a long while, he smiled wryly and said, "Of course I'm going to continue my PhD. If you're looking for a job, Moscow doesn't have any good jobs. But I haven't decided whether to study abroad or stay at Moscow State University..."

Wang Ye asked curiously: "You are studying computer, so it is better to go abroad. Most of the students in your department have gone abroad after graduation, right?"

Sergey nodded, and said proudly: "Although there are few high-tech companies in our country, there are many computer-related talents! Students who graduated from the computer and mathematics departments of several prestigious schools want to apply for scholarships from prestigious British and American schools. It's not difficult. It's just that I'm a little bit unwilling, why can I only go abroad to study for a Ph. D., and work for a company in another country? Why can't we build a few world-class high-tech companies ourselves!"

Wang Ye smiled slightly, "Now we also have good high-tech companies, like YANDEX and MAIL.RU, which are already very good companies. After the merger, they even dominate the Russian Internet. In the future, they will definitely dominate the world's Internet industry. place."

Sergey grinned, and seemed not too impressed with the two companies Wang Ye mentioned.

He hesitated for a while, and explained: "These two companies are not bad, but I think they still lack creativity. They just imitate other companies. The only advantage is that they are Russian-language Internet, and the competition is relatively small. .”

creativity?

Wang Ye asked with a smile: "Then what kind of enterprises do you think are creative?"

Sergey replied without hesitation: "Yahoo, ICQ, Amazon, Google, and Apple."

"Apple? Isn't that a hardware company? How can it be said to be creative?" Wang Ye asked with a smile.

"It's mainly the online music store they launched last year. I think it has a bright future with the combination of software and hardware." Sergey briefly explained.

Wang Ye nodded and asked, "So in our country, have you found any innovative Internet companies?"

Sergey smiled triumphantly, reached out and turned the computer screen on the table around.

"Look, this is a website I created. It should be considered the most creative on the Russian Internet. I'm not bragging." He tapped the keyboard and opened a webpage.

When Wang Ye took a look, his first impression was that this website is so simple...

The name of the website "Personal Short Blog of All-Russian College Students" is written in bold Russian on it.

Below are rows of school names searched by Russian alphabet, and Sergey clicked the mouse and entered a university at random.

On the university page, there are various major categories again. Click on a category again, and it will be a blank page. Obviously, there are no users yet...

While operating, Sergey explained to Wang Ye:

"My website combines the current popular alumni records and personal blogs, absorbs the advantages of the two websites, and innovates. Existing blogs publish long articles, so users are required to spend money on them. It takes a lot of time and energy to write articles, but ordinary users are not interested in this. So, I simply canceled the long blog and changed it to the form of pictures and short articles..."

Wang Ye was dumbfounded, this...

Isn't it the prototype of Facebook!
It's just that the website Sergey built is a website on the computer side, more like Weibo.

Of course, almost no one uses mobile phones to surf the Internet these days, and naturally it is impossible to do mobile phone clients.

All Internet companies still aim at the PC side.

(End of this chapter)