After the employees of Kadokawa Shoten lurked in Japan's online anime enthusiast forums and other places, Wen Xun was free to register a few accounts and check them out. In fact, if we really talk about it, the online life in Japan is really not as rich as in mainland China - in fact, in this era, there are not many websites, forums and the like in Japan. It¡¯s not like mainland China where there are various forums everywhere! For example, there is a well-known Maopu forum in mainland China. In fact, it was originally a gaming forum, and then slowly developed into a comprehensive forum. It is now well-known throughout the country!
In various aspects, it can be said that there are websites set up by enthusiasts. Even in these days, companies such as Dolemi in China still have free space and paid space to provide individuals with such a service to build personal websites. Unlike Chinese people who like online life, ordinary people in countries like Japan do not like online life very much. This is not to say that the Chinese people are short of entertainment - in this day and age, pirated discs are rampant in the country, and you need to spend a lot of money to watch any blockbusters? There are many places that rent CDs in small cities. You can rent a CD for one or two yuan for a day. How come this is not less investment than watching a movie? And even in big cities, there are all kinds of pirated discs for sale. You can buy them for five yuan a piece and watch them at home, and you can also collect them! Why is there such a lack of entertainment?
¡°As for Japan, how come the entertainment options of ordinary people are richer than those of Chinese people? It's not much richer. The comics they can read are distributed by pirates in China. There are such rental bookstores next to various campuses where you can rent books and read them. And what about their animations? There are also alphabet-translated versions on the Chinese Internet for Chinese people to read. And it doesn¡¯t cost any money! Even people who don¡¯t have a computer can always watch it in an Internet cafe! On the other hand, it¡¯s not like the Chinese don¡¯t have games that the Japanese like to play! Even though Chinese people prefer to play online games rather than video games that Japanese people like, the market for video games in China is not too small. There are still many people engaged in the business of selling Japanese smuggled game consoles and games, so what does this mean? This means that Chinese young people actually have no fewer entertainment options than Japanese young people!
But relatively speaking, the Japanese really don¡¯t like the Internet very much. Even in this era, game consoles like Sega's DC and the like can already access the Internet, but to be honest, there are not many Internet services in Japan, and they don't have many websites, so such a function was added. It's better than nothing. Jia Hongjian doesn't know why the Japanese don't like website forums. Even relatively speaking, in an area like Daiwan, there aren't many forums that are as popular as those on the mainland. For example, there are some antique forums like ppt, which have the same DOS interface. There are only one or two forums like this in Daiwan! It really doesn¡¯t look like the piles of websites here in mainland China! Why exactly is this happening? No one knows, because the folk customs of different places are different, and the entertainment methods they like are different. There are many websites and forums in the United States, and Americans still like to use email. Isn¡¯t it strange that I don¡¯t like to use various instant messaging software?
But if you really want to talk about it, Japan¡¯s network hardware development is pretty good. And they themselves have embarked on a unique path that is different from China and the United States. For example, in the United States, most people don't like texting very much, so they usually make phone calls when something happens. In China, young people basically like to send text messages, and even older people can send text messages as long as it is not urgent. But here in Japan, they don¡¯t even know what text messaging is! That¡¯s right, mobile phones in Japan actually don¡¯t send text messages. What they send is called a mobile email! In fact, the Japanese have combined the habits of Chinese and Americans into one - in their mobile phones, the mobile phone can apply for an email address. And such an email address is equivalent to a personal number.
Japanese people generally make relatively few phone calls. If they want to send text messages, they actually use a mobile phone to operate something that feels similar to a text messaging system to send an email to someone else. So they know that other people¡¯s phones are useless. If they want to be friends with others, they must You need to know the other person¡¯s email account! Such an approach is not actually the Japanese who have penetrated the East and the West and combined the advantages of the East and the West. In fact, it can only be said to be the Japanese strange! Yes, Japanese people love to use email, and Chinese people love to use text messages. This is a normal result of the development of the telecommunications industry in both countries. The reason why there are differences in usage habits of text messages and emails is that the two countries have different technological development paths in the telecommunications industry. Or to put it more bluntly, Japan is a strange country in the world¡¯s telecommunications map.With the existence of ??, they like to independently develop any technology or format, and they have an instinctive resistance to foreign technologies. While they are constantly tinkering, they have cultivated the habit of Japanese people using mobile phones to send and receive emails.
In the eyes of users, emails and text messages are both forms of service in which one party sends a message containing a paragraph of text to the other party. But behind the scenes, the implementation of these two services is completely different. In layman's terms, sending text messages relies on the same voice network as making phone calls, while sending emails relies on the same data network as surfing the Internet. Corresponding to the current mobile phone display interface, generally the top of the machine screen displays "signal", which is the connection quality of the voice network, and then there are words such as 2g which represent the connection quality of the data network. When connected to the voice network, you may not be able to connect to the data network, but you can make calls and send text messages normally; when connected to the data network, you must also be connected to the voice network, and then you can send emails.
In the 2g era, of course, there is also a weird thing promoted by Qualcomm in the United States that uses cdma network in the 2g era. For text messages, the signaling network is used, and there is a length limit, so even a very slow network can send and receive text messages smoothly. However, for ordinary websites and email services, such network speed is really too fast. It's too slow, and you may not be able to see the complete email content until it loads for 5 minutes. Therefore, people have come up with a solution to convert website content, email content, and other application content to this protocol, so that the content can be viewed on the mobile phone. The result is the WAP protocol that we are all familiar with.
In this era, the WAP network for mobile Internet access in China can be said to be extremely simple, containing only necessary text content. There is no way, if other things are installed, the mobile network cannot transmit it. With the WAP protocol, you can now access the website and send emails. But your mailbox is Sohu Mailbox or NetEase Mailbox, both of which use dedicated software. Therefore, to send and receive mails, you must first log in to your own mail service website with your mobile phone, and then you can enter your inbox to view mails. So isn¡¯t this a waste of traffic fees? But in Japan, they are a weird one. ntt- worked hard to create another service - i-Mode. Note that i-Mode is a comprehensive service platform and uses the l protocol. This service platform claims that the transmission speed is faster than wap, and it also integrates email services, so that Japanese people can send and receive emails on their mobile phones as long as they set up the email server and let the server automatically forward emails to the i-Mode platform. Email.
Therefore, in the 2G era, for people in most parts of the world except the United States and Japan, including of course the Chinese people, the functions on everyone¡¯s mobile phone screens are ¡°calls, text messages, address books, and browsers¡±, while the functions on the Japanese mobile phone screens are "Phone calls, text messages, emails, address books." As for the Japanese, they have also given full play to their habit of internal fighting - their communication providers have actually not realized interconnection until now! That's right, China Mobile and China Unicom have long been interconnected, even if there is a slight delay, it is still more advanced than Japan, which has no interconnection at all! So this means that if Japanese people use their mobile phones to send text messages, they cannot directly send them to friends who use mobile phones of different operators! How can people use text messages like this?
But having said that, this has led to a very strange phenomenon, that is, on the surface, in general, the network coverage in Japan is very high, but this high coverage is actually caused by individuals using mobile phones. Internet, and they are not using it to browse other websites, but to send emails - in fact, it is equivalent to monthly traffic, so the cost of sending emails to each other is almost free! In fact, the amount of traffic actually used for the concept of surfing the Internet is still quite small. Especially in Japan, for some unknown reason, perhaps because there is relatively little fixed-line investment or because real estate and land prices are too expensive, the cost is quite high for them to actually use network cables to access the Internet at home. This is As a result, in the end, not every wealthy family has a fixed Internet connection! (To be continued)