To do full copying, you need your own platform, and you need to be fast.
To build your own website, you need Computer, a platform server, and a network.
Everything else is negotiable, but Computer and servers are not cheap these days.
Especially servers, those things are ridiculously expensive, and the key issue is that Ling Yi doesn't have the connections to buy them.
One more thing, Ling Yi is currently broke.
His father gave him three thousand yuan in total, and now he has spent quite a bit on rent and other miscellaneous expenses.
There's less than 2,100 left.
This amount of money can't buy anything.
How do I make money?
The general direction is clear, but the initial funding is a headache.
It's not that money is hard to earn; Ling Yi has quite a few ways to make money. If all else fails, just Baidu.
But it's really hard to find a legitimate business that can make quick money in a short period of time.
I checked the time; it was almost four in the afternoon.
"Forget it, I'll go out for a walk. Maybe I'll find some ideas!" Ling Yi stood up from the sofa in the living room.
I went to the kitchen first and washed a bag of sweet potatoes, weighing nearly 80 pounds.
I put half of it into the pot to make sweet potato paste.
This thing is simple and easy to make, tastes pretty good, and is perfect for burning off energy after using Baidu Chinese search engine).
Fortunately, the pot on this earthen stove is a large pot with a capacity of thirty-two zhu (a unit of weight). If it were a small pot, it would have been very difficult.
The speed at which he cooks probably can't keep up with the speed at which he consumes energy.
It's better to just buy ready-made steamed buns or dumplings.
Add water to the pot, start the fire in the stove, add coal, and turn on the blower.
Once the water in the pot boils, boil it for another twenty minutes, then turn off the blower and close the air intake Wind Sect at the stove. That's it.
All that's left is to simmer it slowly over low heat.
When the last bit of coal has burned out, the water in the pot will be almost boiled, and the pot of sweet potato stew will be ready.
When Ling Yi left, it was exactly around 6:20 PM.
This is precisely the time when students get out of school and the school cafeteria opens for lunch.
The canteen and dormitory area of Hanyun High School are not located inside the school, but across the street from the main gate.
The girls' dormitory area is in the north, and the houses are all three-story buildings.
There are male dormitory areas, which are all single-story buildings.
The cafeteria was located right at the entrance to the boys' dormitory.
The cafeteria at Hanyun High School is the best among all the middle schools in Ningbei County.
The cafeteria is not only spacious, bright, clean, and hygienic, but also offers a wide variety of dishes.
The quantity given was also very large.
However, Ling Yi's mind was currently preoccupied with making money, so he naturally had no Kung Fu Hustle to go to the cafeteria to look for any memories from the past.
If you want to revisit your memories, you still have three years; you can do it anytime.
Beyond the boys' dormitory area, further south, lies Hanyun International Trade Center.
Almost everything related to food, clothing, housing, and transportation can be bought here, making it the main consumption area for people from Hanyun Town Hanyun High School.
Further south from the International Trade City is Two Symbols Road, the place where Ling Yi bought steamed buns and mantou before.
During the day, this area transforms into a food street, selling various snacks such as fried dough sticks, steamed buns, mantou (steamed bread), twisted rolls, cooked food, cotton candy, and candied hawthorn skewers.
This area transforms into a barbecue street at night.
This place is lively both day and night.
Ling Yi walked along, bought a piece of glutinous rice candy, and ate it as he walked.
Glutinous rice candy is a square snack made from glutinous rice and white sugar. It looks like ice cream and tastes soft, chewy, and sweet.
Ling Yi hadn't eaten this in decades.
Or rather, this old flavor has disappeared for decades.
Although glutinous rice candy is sold everywhere in later generations, this kind of purely handmade glutinous rice candy made by old craftsmen has never been seen again.
After passing the snack street, continue south to reach One Symbol Road.
Restaurants, hotels, and internet cafes are mostly concentrated on this street.
There are quite a few restaurants on Two Symbols Road Two Symbols Road, but they mainly serve breakfast and barbecue fast food.
The main business hours are in the morning and evening.
Most of the restaurants on One Symbol Road serve home-style dishes; they're not exactly upscale or formal.
However, the restaurants on this street aren't doing too well.
After all, people don't have much spare money these days, so not many people eat out.
These restaurants are basically supported by the school's students.
It's not that students eat at restaurants a lot, but rather that most of these restaurants offer monthly subscription services to students.
It costs around 150 yuan a month, and you can eat as much as you want until you're full. The quality of the food is naturally better than what you'd get at school.
There are many meat dishes, but the variety is rather limited.
But honestly, compared to the school cafeteria, it's not very cost-effective.
Ling Yi had also eaten there for two months in his previous life. It was alright when he encountered an honest boss, but when he encountered the Old Liu boss, it was all just a rip-off later on.
One Symbol Road is the longest road in Hanyun Town, running from east to west.
It runs from the easternmost point to the westernmost point, traversing the entire Hanyun Town.
Instead of being like other roads, which are either halfway or have a turn.
One Symbol Road has a total of twelve restaurants, three hotels, and four internet cafes!
There are five internet cafes in the entire Hanyun Town, four of which are located on this One Symbol Road.
As for the last internet cafe, it's on Six Symbols Road, which is a bit far, and students don't want to go there.
Unless, all four internet cafes on One Symbol Road are full.
This time, Ling Yi was targeting internet cafes.
Hmm, does using the word "target" feel a bit off? It sounds suspicious!
Ling Yi was extremely familiar with these five internet cafes in Hanyun Town.
In his previous life, Ling Yi spent almost two years in these five internet cafes.
Keep in mind that back then, an hour at an internet cafe cost four yuan.
Some people say, "Wait a minute, how could internet cafe fees be so expensive?"
Yes, it's that expensive.
At that time, although the Computer configuration was still relatively poor, the price was extremely high.
If you don't have a lot of money at home, you really can't afford to drive one.
An internet cafe might only have a dozen or so computers at most, with more people than machines.
At its peak, the price rose to 6 yuan per hour.
Even so, these internet cafes are packed 24 hours a day.
This situation continued until 2000, when Computer prices dropped and the number of computers in internet cafes gradually increased, finally bringing the price down to 2 yuan.
After 2001, the price became even cheaper.
However, from 1997 to 2000, anyone who opened an internet cafe made a fortune; it was incredibly profitable.
An internet cafe with ten Computer, running 24/7, can only earn a few thousand yuan a day.
After deducting water and electricity costs, I make a net profit of seven or eight hundred yuan a day.
He can easily earn two or three hundred thousand a year.
By 1998 and 1999, internet cafes had grown significantly in size and number of computers, making it easy to earn millions of yuan a year.
The five internet cafes in Hanyun Town are Soaring Clouds Internet Cafe, Dragon City Internet Cafe, Romantic Affinity Internet Cafe, and Beautiful Waters Internet Cafe.
The internet cafe Ling Yi was going to was Dragon City Internet Cafe.
The reason this internet cafe was chosen is because the owner of Dragon City Internet Cafe is a college student who knows Programming.
His name is Song Bin.
Song Bin majored in business administration in college, and computer Programming was just an elective he took.
So my technical skills are only average; I know a little, but not much.
I only know some basic programming languages.
However, this is already quite remarkable.
Ling Yi wasn't looking for Song Bin because of his Programming skills; he just needed him to know how to Programming.
Most importantly, Song Bin has a lot of Programming software.
This is the main reason why Ling Yi came to find Song Bin.
However, Song Bin is not only an internet cafe owner, but also a school teacher, though not a formally employed one.
They were hired by the school from outside.
They specialize in teaching students computer skills.
The school has a computer lab, but it's full of extremely old 686 Computer.
Many people may not even have a concept of a 686 Computer now.
It doesn't even have a windowed interface; it uses the code-based interfaces of DOS and Linux.
The mouse is basically just for show.
To invoke any software, you need to type in the command code.
Ling Yi and his classmates have one Computer class every week, but at most they only learn Wubi input method, and that's about it.
Dragon City Internet Cafe only has twelve computers.
When Ling Yi arrived, the internet cafe was already full of people.
The boss, Song Bin, was playing games on his personal Computer by the door.
" Boss Song, we have a job!" Ling Yi said, tapping the table as he stood opposite Song Bin.
"It's full, you'll have to queue to get online," Song Bin said without looking up.
"I'm not here to play on the Computer, I'm here to do business with the boss," Ling Yi said bluntly.
Shen Bin looked up at Ling Yi and found that he was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, a complete stranger.
You can tell at a glance that they are this year's freshmen.
"Go away, go away! What business are you talking about, you little kid? Don't joke around with me!"
"Do you have Programming software like VB, C, or Java installed on your Computer?"
Shen Bin's eyes widened. "Huh? You actually know Programming?"
"It's not just knowing, it's being Proficiency!"
"Really?"
"Let me try and I'll see," Ling Yi said confidently with a smile.
Although Shen Bin's Programming skills were mediocre and he lacked talent in this area, he genuinely loved Programming.
"You really know how?"
"Yes, the super powerful kind!"
"You're so young, where did you learn Programming?"
"Genius, self-taught!"
Hearing Ling Yi's words, Shen Bin rolled his eyes. Damn, are there still people who boast about being geniuses these days? That's shameless!
With just a few words, Ling Yi left a very deep impression on Shen Bin.
He looked at Ling Yi suspiciously for a long time, then quit the Red Alert game he was playing.
He stood up and said to Ling Yi, "Then let's give it a try!"
Ling Yi didn't stand on ceremony and sat down in front of the Computer to ask, "Have you installed the database program?"
"It's installed, it has Access, database, and SQL, wow, you really know a lot of things?"
Ling Yi Ling Yi n't speak, but after looking at the several Programming software programs on the Computer desktop, his eyes lit up.
This saved Ling Yi a lot of trouble.
"You assembled this Computer yourself, right? You even set up a hard drive RAID array yourself, that's impressive!"
"The configuration is barely adequate, but it must have cost a lot of money, right?"
Shen Bin said proudly, "That's right, it costs Xiao San yuan. Many of these items aren't available domestically, so I had to ask a friend to get them from overseas."
"What a waste!" Ling Yi sighed.
"What was wasted?" Shen Bin asked, puzzled.
Of course it would be a waste for you to use it! But Ling Yi dared not say that aloud.