互联网对中国的深刻改变,以及中国对互联网的巨大改造,始于二十年前。1994年4月20日,通过一条64K的国际专线,中国全功能接入国际互联网。那一年,英国的计算机接入互联网已有21年;绝大多数中国人还只能从《人民日报》和新华社的报道中了解刚刚动工的三峡工程和南非新当选的黑人总统;超市进入中国,带来一种全新的购物体验;阿里巴巴帝国的缔造者马云正在浙江经营一家翻译社,勉强收支平衡。被称为“中国IT第一记者”的刘韧在上世纪90年代接触 The profound changes made by the Internet to China and China’s huge transformation of the Internet began twenty years ago. April 20, 1994, through a 64K international hotline, China fully functional access to the Internet. That year, British computers had been connected to the Internet for 21 years; most Chinese could only learn about the just-started Three Gorges Project and the newly elected South African black president from the People’s Daily and the Xinhua News Agency; enter the supermarket China, bringing a whole new shopping experience; Jack Ma, founder of the Alibaba Empire, runs a translation agency in Zhejiang province, barely balancing. Renowned as the “China’s IT First Reporter,” Liu Ren contacted in the 90s of last century