12,888 closed down in a year! The once overcrowded profiteering industry has now been abandoned by young people

In the youth of many people, there is such a place, not a large space, the smell of smoke, sweat and instant noodles are mixed together, the machine is about two yuan for an hour, and when playing, you have to look at the door frequently, worrying that someone will catch it.

This is the Internet café, many people's youth memories are connected with the Internet café, the excitement in the game is on the one hand, and there is the horror in reality, after all, anyone who looks up and sees their parents or teachers around them, will shrink a little.

Once, when it came to the industry of making money, it was difficult for people not to think of Internet cafes, after all, this is almost a lucrative industry, a paradise for young people, and a place where teachers and parents are scolded by everyone.

However, in recent years, Internet cafes seem to have less and less impact on people's lives, and when it comes to Internet cafes, there is a bit of a long taste, at this time those "teenagers" who were once obsessed with the Internet suddenly realized that the place they couldn't leave when they were young has become farther and farther away from them......

Memories of youth

At the end of the 90s, the Internet began to flourish in China, and the Internet world at that time could be said to be the world of the rich, because it was too expensive.

In 1996, a student who graduated from Tsinghua University, with great business acumen, opened a "Shihua Open Internet Coffee House" at the west gate of the Capital Gymnasium.

Of course, the cost is also relatively expensive, understand that students have no money, holding a student ID card for 15 yuan an hour, while the public costs 30-40 yuan an hour.

This price may be within the acceptable range of young people now, but you must know that it was the end of the 90s, and the people's monthly salary was only a few hundred yuan, but it cost thirty or forty yuan for one hour of Internet access.

The Internet also flourished at this time, especially driven by online games such as "Knight's Walk" in 1996 and "Legend" in 2001, more and more young people went to Internet cafes.

At this time, the cost of Internet cafes gradually became cheaper, and the advent of QQ social software, at that time, having a QQ account also became the capital to show off among peers.

In order to upgrade their accounts, many young people save all their pocket money just to open the machine for one or two hours, and more young people have gathered in Internet cafes.

A profitable business is naturally seen by more people, big cities may be four or five yuan an hour, while small county towns are one or two yuan, as long as there are a few computers, it can become a simple small Internet café, the boss only needs to sit and wait to collect money.

Because of this, Internet cafes in small county towns have sprung up one by one, and the streets and alleys are full of signboards of Internet cafes.

During that time, various forms of online games also came out one after another, firmly grasping the hearts of young people who yearn for excitement and novelty.

"Are you GG, or MM?" It has also become the first greeting for countless teenagers to step into the Internet world, every weekend, it is really hard to find a machine in the Internet café, and it is also because of the emergence of Internet cafes, words such as "package night" and "Internet addiction" also appear in the body of young people, in order to surf the Internet, they are simply doing everything.

In order to find students, teachers and parents, they almost searched all the Internet cafes near the school, and even squatted in an inconspicuous place at the entrance of the Internet café, just to prevent the children from going astray.

Internet cafes are people's memories of youth at that time, but how many children have been harmed by Internet cafes, making them take detours, harming others and themselves.

The last splendor

In 2002 and 2003, perhaps the trough time of the Internet café industry, the major arson incident of Beijing's "Blue Speed" black Internet café pushed all Internet cafes to the forefront of the storm, and the Internet café industry was also rectified, coupled with the SARS epidemic in 2003, the Internet café industry also temporarily stopped for a period of time.

However, after this period of time, Internet cafes regrouped again, after all, people like it, and the online world is really exciting, "World of Warcraft" and "Crossfire" are all over the Internet, and at that time, computers have not yet spread to thousands of households.

In addition to young people playing games in Internet cafes, there are also middle-aged and elderly men watching sports events, who hide in Internet cafes to let themselves have a moment of leisure.

With the advent of "League of Legends", there are more young people in Internet cafes, but at this time the family is also much more open, rather than letting children spend money to go to Internet cafes to play secretly, the more they stop them, the more interesting they feel, it is better to buy a computer directly and put it at home, maybe the child will not be addicted.

People have money in their hands, smartphones have begun to develop, and the awakening of parents' awareness has also brought a huge blow to the Internet café industry, and by 2016, it was the last glory of Internet cafes.

According to statistics from June 2016, the number of registered Internet cafes had reached 152,000 by then, and the cost of Internet access for many households has become a fixed expense, even more than the cost of eating.

However, the pinnacle of Internet cafes is limited to this, those children who are obsessed with the Internet have grown up, smartphones have been able to let them see the wonderful world, and the development of mobile games has been able to fill their free time, and fewer and fewer people go to Internet cafes.

Came

The Internet is developing so fast that it has not even given Internet cafes a chance to transform, and the once overcrowded Internet cafes are gradually withering, and fewer and fewer young people patronize Internet cafes.

Every family has a computer, there are also smartphones in their hands, and the entertainment methods are becoming more and more diversified.

When people shook their heads and found that they hadn't been to the Internet café for a long time, and wanted to find the memories of their youth, they found that the Internet café they were once familiar with had long since closed down.

According to relevant statistics: in 2020, the number of Internet café-related enterprises will be 3,638, the number of cancellations will be 9,250, and a total of 12,888 will go bankrupt. As of February 2021, the total number of businesses in the country is 124818.

In just one year, 12,888 registered Internet cafes have closed down, which is surprising and reasonable, after all, some Internet cafes are available at home.

The industry that was once known as the most profitable has finally fallen into the flood of the times.

Some Internet café owners want to transform, but also in the Internet café is constantly making improvements, Internet cafes and billiards halls, chess and card rooms, in order to attract more people, in order to attract female customers, Internet cafes and pet coffee and milk tea coffee combined, and even e-sports hotels also appeared at this time, they retain the network at the same time, added the elements of the new era.

However, the gradual disappearance of Internet cafes is the trend of the times and the result of the development of the times.

End

Today's gold, tomorrow's dust. The flood of the times is rolling forward, things are constantly changing, the rise and fall are rapidly alternating, everything has a high and low tide, there are brilliant and down, people are caught off guard, but there is nothing to do.

20 years ago, we never imagined that we could see the world without leaving home, nor would we have thought that a small mobile phone could encompass everything.

Nowadays, we have long been accustomed to mobile phones, accustomed to convenient life, I wonder if you will recall when you look back on the past, once there was no mobile phone, water and electricity are not as convenient as now, what do you usually do to learn your time?

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