As shown in the picture, the free‑for‑all welfare model that was shared with everyone got stuck because a member of the coin‑minting group couldn’t open the archive, couldn’t extract it, tried to extract it online, got frustrated, and was reported for this, leading to the group being deleted (the account seems to be gone as well).
Honestly, when I saw this, it was both unexpected and yet understandable.
I think my first time surfing the web was around 2008 (since I was in a small third‑tier city, always lagging behind). The plain Win XP interface took the young me onto the information superhighway. At that time the internet seemed to consist only of forums and various websites (like Renren, Kaixin, I can’t recall). I couldn’t understand all those obscure texts back then (I was still in kindergarten, my literacy level was about the same as Ding Zhen’s), so I usually liked to play Minesweeper or Spider Solitaire on the computer (writing this reminds me of my grandparents; I remember they would often take a break from chores, sit at the computer, and play a round, their noses getting all runny—let’s video chat with them later). Later I got a QQ account (the right to use it), and spent every day playing games like QQ Farm. To prevent friends (actually relatives and neighbors) from stealing my crops, I even set QQ reminders and would get up at night to harvest. Later, with the spread of smartphones, the only game I could play, MotoMola (I think that’s the name) which was a skiing game, turned into a smartphone that could play Tetris and Subway Surfers, and the computer gradually left my life (mainly because after moving, the computer was placed in my parents’ room, making it inconvenient to use). Until I entered middle school, during the period of online classes, one day I threw a tantrum and my parents actually gave me a laptop. Looking back, I was really immature, asking for such a ridiculous thing when we could barely make ends meet. But that was also when I learned to use bt to achieve free video watching, use md to organize notes, use \\rm \\LaTeX to typeset formulas, and greatly improved my English (as a fellow netizen said, the Chinese‑language internet was like that back then). After the college entrance exam, I got my third laptop, and the first things I installed were qBittorrent, TeX Live, VSCode, Git and Obsidian (previously I used Typora), even creating a separate folder to store them.
Honestly, arriving in Xi’an was a huge shock: some people type URLs directly into the search box (though I believe there are also netizens like me who have done this), some can’t extract archives (even simple ones without passwords or multi‑volume parts, like the one in the picture), some can’t tell the difference between bit and byte; it was also my first time learning about pt (I was previously curious about any relationship between bt and rss), my first time creating a pull request on GitHub, my first time using a Pi 400 and a dht11 to monitor my dorm’s temperature and humidity in real time…
However, on second thought, I feel somewhat out of place—forums, bt magnet links, things that young people have long abandoned, seem to be revered only by me; Git and GitHub, tools that even computer‑science students rarely use, I employ to sync my notes, and I even get a little proud of creating my first pull request and having it merged…
Perhaps I’ve been abandoned by the internet as well!
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