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memories of a generation
Every generation has memories of every generation. In the memories of the 1980s, there must be a powerful Chinese community: Tianya Forum.
Today's post-00s may not know how awesome Tianya was back then.
Tianya Community was founded in 1999. At this time, the Internet industry in China was in the ascendant. Tencent had just been established for one year, Ali was also established at this time, and Baidu began to rise a year later in 2000.
How popular was the Tianya community in the past?
In 2007, the number of registered users of Tianya Community exceeded 20 million, known as: "the world's largest Chinese Internet community".
The Tianya community once popularized the first generation of Internet celebrities represented by "Sister Furong", and hatched a batch of super big IPs such as "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" and "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty".
As of August 2013, Tianya Community had 85 million registered users.
In 2013, the number of Chinese netizens was just over 600 million, which means that almost one out of every seven Chinese netizens in that year was a Tianya user.
At its peak there were 130 million registered users.
It can be said that the Tianya community used to be the social platform with the most hidden talents on the Internet in China. The relatively high quality and sincerity of netizens at that time also made the posts on Tianya very high-quality and exciting.
Even if many articles are put into the present, they can stand the test of time, which is the most attractive part of the Tianya community.
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can't open
Compared with the current Internet celebrities, the group of celebrities from the Tianya community are really too educated and well-known.
But in the past two days, everyone suddenly found that the Tianya community website could not be opened.
Because everyone paid so much attention, it became the number one hot search list on Zhihu. Many people recalled their youth at that time under this question.
Previously, the official Weibo of the Tianya Community announced on April 1 that the platform will be inaccessible during the recent technology upgrade and data reconstruction. "Please wait patiently."
But this is not the first time that the official website of Tianya Community cannot be opened. It happened once on November 22, 2022, but it was later repaired.
I checked the Tianya community on the Internet and found that the company has several risk information.
The company has 6 pieces of information on persons subject to execution, and the cumulative execution target exceeds 146 million yuan. At the same time, the company and its founder Xing Ming still have dozens of restrictions on consumption.
In addition, the company has also been involved in hundreds of cases, the causes of which include disputes over the right of reputation and infringement of the right to disseminate information on the network of works.
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what happened?
There is a very famous saying that it is not your peers who defeat you, but a competitor from another dimension , who kills you.
Tianya Community was born in the PC era and died in the mobile Internet.
Since 2010, the mobile Internet has been booming, but the Tianya community has not kept up with this rhythm, and people's attention has slowly shifted.
When WeChat, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, etc. were robbing users, Tianya was still that Tianya, and was slowly abandoned by this era.
The Internet itself is the field with the fastest updates and iterations. If it cannot keep up with the pace of the times, it will be doomed to be replaced.
Not only Tianya, but also our small entrepreneurial companies.
From 2016, about 10% of the technical bloggers who blogged with me are still persisting.
From 2017, less than 20% of the friends who played the official account with us are still in operation, and many of them have stopped updating.
This is the case in this era. If you do not move forward, it is equivalent to going backward. Whether it is an individual or a company, survival in the midst of changes is the kingly way.
The once-familiar phrase "Northern Cat Flies South Tianya" still rings in my ears, but Tianya is no longer that Tianya.
The youth of a generation ended with the end of the world.