Zhang Jiaojiao clicked on an article titled "How Far Is the Future? To the Coming Year 2000." Attracted by the title, she read the article.

The article begins by describing the millennium and the rumors of the end of the world.

Indeed, in recent years, some people have said that the year 2000 will be the end of the world, after which the world will enter another era, and humanity may perish and the earth will be destroyed. Zhang Jiaojiao often discusses these things with her classmates.

However, the students approached the issue with curiosity, and their discussions yielded no results. The author of this article explained how rumors originated, what outrageous rumors have existed throughout history, and then imagined the future, describing some future scenarios.

In the author's description, future mobile phones will be upgraded to large-screen smart phones, which is also the popular trend of mobile phones. People will do many things on their mobile phones, and mobile phones will become important electrical appliances that will constantly affect our lives.

The influence of television will be weakened, and print media will no longer be the mouthpiece it is today.

Chinese football will continue to be this bad in the future.

In the future, there will be many internet websites. The online world has changed the way people think about problems. The online world has brought countries closer together, and people understand and influence each other. Global integration is intensifying, and the earth has become a true global village.

As artificial intelligence intensifies in the future, many jobs will be replaced, and people will seek new jobs to meet their employment needs.

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This article envisions the future while reflecting on the present. After reading it, Zhang Jiaojiao felt extremely satisfied. She hadn't read such a good article in a long time. There are many articles to read in the newspaper, but they are all selected.

These politically correct articles selected by the editors may seem overly formulaic, lack truly insightful viewpoints, and are unlikely to express themselves as freely as they do here.

On the internet, no one cares, and everyone can freely express their opinions. Zhang Jiaojiao also wanted to write about her life, so she published a blog post recounting her experience in foreign trade.

After Zhang Jiaojiao's article is published, it will soon be featured on the website's homepage.

At that time, the website had very few users, and few people knew about something called a blog. However, the website quickly attracted the attention of some young literary enthusiasts, who published diaries and even serialized novels on the blog.

Those books that can't be published are perfect for writing online, and some people even write historical serials—the variety is endless and bizarre.

Zhang Jiaojiao was captivated by this atmosphere. The internet was a free place, and Zhang Jiaojiao never imagined that such a platform would exist, allowing her to express herself freely.

Since the development of blogs, people's lifestyles have changed.

Although Hongyu Group has not yet turned a profit, it is changing people's lives.

The development of blogs is relatively simple, and Yan Hongzhe did not take blogs to heart. He set his sights on something new.

"Online shopping?" Chu Yu thought she had misheard.

Isn't online shopping only popular after the millennium? At least in Chu Yu's understanding, it would be several years before several major shopping websites were established in China.

Yan Hongzhe nodded. "A shopping website has emerged overseas. This website is like a comprehensive department store; it has everything—books, clothes, furniture, household goods, you name it. The advantage of online shopping is that people can make online payments simply by linking their internet account to their bank card. After payment, the logistics center will deliver the goods to the customer. Once the customer receives their items, they click 'confirm receipt' on the platform, and the merchant receives the money."

Chu Yu certainly knew about online payment and online shopping, but in her mind, these things only came about many years later.

“Computers aren’t widespread now, so even if we develop online shopping, we won’t have any customers…” Chu Yu expressed her concerns.

Yan Hongzhe did not deny it, "But we can't develop it if it doesn't meet the standards. It's just that the user base is growing explosively, so we need to wait. We can build it, and it doesn't matter how many people use it. It will take a year or two to build it, and then we can update it to make the system more stable. By the time the website framework is built, all the rules are set, and there are no major loopholes, it will be after the millennium. After the millennium, computers will become widespread rapidly, and I predict that online shopping will be very popular."

Chu Yu suddenly realized that having lived two lives was both a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing was that she knew what the future would look like, allowing her to plan ahead and always stay ahead of the curve. The bad thing was that she would develop a fixed mindset, believing that online shopping would only become popular after the millennium, and that she should wait a few years before developing her own online shopping business.

The fact is, online shopping is already popular overseas.

If Chu Yu had developed online shopping earlier in the country, she might have brought the era of online shopping to a head sooner.

Hasn't she already changed the world? The butterfly's wings flapped more than a decade ago, and this life will never be the same as the previous one.