In the long river of historical development, human beings have carried out countless scientific research in order to be able to live better, and the emergence of mobile phones can be said to be the invention that changed the trajectory of human life.
Today, mobile phones have evolved from bulky big brothers at the beginning to small and exquisite mobile phones, and then to full-featured smart phones, from 2G to 5G.
From text messages to WeChat, mobile phones provide countless conveniences for people with their small body, and it is not a lie to know the world with a mobile phone.
Especially now, the real-name system has been implemented, and id cards are required for mobile phone numbers.
So in the beginning, when the mobile phone first appeared in front of the Chinese people, who was the first person to apply for a mobile phone number?
At that time, the mobile phone number could be chosen at will, and in the end, what number did he pick?
Big Brother is here
In the history of mankind, the invention of the telephone can be said to be a miracle, he can connect people in two places through a single thread, to achieve information sharing.
Prior to this, people could only transmit shared information through letters through various channels, and the most advanced was only the transmission of telegrams, but telegrams needed to be decoded and were not available to ordinary people.
In 1978, the penetration rate of telephones in China was only 0.43%, and in the mid-1980s, the relevant departments accelerated the infrastructure of telephones, and in 1900, telephones were first installed in Nanjing.
It was not until the 1990s that telephones began to become popular in China.
In 1973, after several studies by the engineers of the American Motorola Company, Big Brother successfully appeared in the public eye, and the birth of Big Brother also opened up a new situation.
In 1987, Big Brother entered China, and once it was introduced, it became an important tool for people's information communication and social activities.
In that era of economic reform, Big Brother was undoubtedly a sharp weapon in the eyes of everyone. Although its shape is bulky, like a black brick, it is impossible for anyone to underestimate the energy contained in its body.
Sky-high big brother
In the late 1980s, people's ideas were broadened, and their insights were not limited to the mainland, of course, many people knew about the existence of Big Brother.
But at that time, big brother was a rare commodity, in 1987, big brother landed in China for the first time there were only 100 units, the price was also very expensive, the price was 20,000 yuan, and because the communication facilities at that time were not perfect, each big brother also had to pay 6,000 yuan of network access fees.
In that era when the salary was dozens of yuan and every penny had to be considered not to be spent indiscriminately, 26,000 yuan was undoubtedly a sky-high price.
Buying two houses in Beijing is also at this price, not to mention that landlines are not even popular in the country, not to mention the big brother who is like a gold nugget in the eyes of people.
The first person to have a cell phone number
Although Big Brother is expensive, there is never a shortage of the first people in the world to eat crabs, Big Brother is openly sold in China, of course, there are people willing to pay, and this person is not some people we are familiar with today.
But at that time, he was only in his 20s, a young man named Xu Feng.
When he first started selling mobile phones in Guangzhou, Xu Feng came to the store and bought mobile phones.
The reason why he spent a huge amount of money to buy a mobile phone that most Chinese people had never heard of at that time was because in a movie, Xu Feng saw the mobile phone and imagined that if he had a mobile phone, his work would be smoother.
It is understood that Xu Feng is engaged in the business of seafood restaurants, because of the particularity of this business, the grasp of time and quantity is very strict.
Running in seafood markets, fishing boats, restaurants and other places every day, the information transmission is very lagging behind, and a slight difference in the pool will affect the business, so when Xu Feng saw the mobile phone in the movie, he longed for it.
The country's first mobile phone "beautiful number"
Xu Feng learned from many inquiries that there was no big brother in China, which was very disappointing for him. But soon, Xu Feng saw hope.
In 1987, the National Games will be held, and at that time, 100 big brothers will be approved for use in China, and Xu Feng, who received the news, was very excited and could not wait to go to the post office to confirm the information.
On November 21, 1987, after arriving at the post office, Xu Feng consulted the staff, and the staff was very surprised.
Because although the big brother has arrived, the leader has not yet decided whether to sell it or not, and when to sell it. At Xu Feng's request, the staff gave feedback to the leader and told Xu Feng that he could buy.
In this way, Xu Feng filled out the first mobile phone installation application form in Guangzhou and even the whole country, because it was the first case, and the content of this application form was almost completely handwritten.
And when the staff let Xu Feng choose the mobile phone number, in the middle of 01 ~ 99 to choose a number of their own preference. Xu Feng thought that he was a businessman, and the businessman naturally wanted to make money, so he chose "88".
At that time, the area code of Guangzhou was "9010", so China's first mobile phone number was also successfully born, that is, "901088".
Big Brother brings changes
Before that, Xu Feng needed to run non-stop every day, and even so, the business was tepid.
After having Big Brother, Xu Feng sat in the fishing village and used Big Brother to contact his own restaurant, ensuring the freshness and variety of seafood, greatly improving the quality of seafood restaurants, raising the grade, and becoming the first choice for people to talk about business and dinner.
And all this is inseparable from Xu Feng's initial heavy purchase of "Big Brother", and the small seafood restaurant he founded called "South China Sea Fishing Village" has now developed into today's group company.
And now Xu Feng has the most high-end and most exquisite smart phone, but he can never forget the big brother like a brick, because that big brother is his witness from the grassroots to the glory.
He will never forget the joy of just getting Big Brother and the pride of showing everyone the features of Big Brother.
And Big Brother has changed not only Xu Feng's fate.
Although in the first few years of Big Brother's introduction, due to the lack of communication facilities, Big Brother will have no signal or poor communication quality. But Big Brother brings people more convenience, the convenience of information.
Even if you can advance the information a little, some of the problems of big brother are really insignificant.
Although many rich people buy because Big Brother is a "status symbol", they value its convenience, after all, real calls are still more convincing than text-only information communication tools such as BB machines.
epilogue
The emergence of big brother has changed people's lives, but it has also opened the development button of mobile phones, with the unremitting efforts of researchers, today's mobile phones are not limited to calls, but also a variety of ways to share resources.
Teleconferencing is no longer a new thing, and "901088", China's first mobile phone number, will also be recorded in the history, and Xu Feng's name will also be a label in the history of mobile phone development.