The Internet bubble crisis has just passed, with trillions of dollars losing globally, and the entire industry is still in a downturn.

On Wall Street, New York, institutions that lost dozens of dollars and hundreds of billions of dollars were everywhere. They noticed something was wrong in advance and had many lucky people who escaped in time. They made a lot of money and saw a big joke.

From the mid-1990s to a few months ago, the Internet industry was the most talked about by investors, which was a new industry that had just been born not many years ago, and successfully created a large number of well-known billionaires.

Unfortunately, after a carnival feast, the Nasdaq Stock Exchange experienced a few months of decline, leaving behind a mess. Recently, the Nasdaq index was only more than 1,100 points left. On March 10 last year, this number was 5,048.62, and it even rose to more than 5,100 points during the session.

The Nasdaq index fell by more than 3,900, resulting in the bankruptcy of countless technology companies and heavy losses in stocks and investment institutions. The cold winter has already arrived. In recent times, in October at the end of 2002, the managers of countless high-tech companies in Silicon Valley were mostly considering the same issue - how to survive.

An Internet industry cannot reflect the overall economic outlook of the United States. After all, the impact of the collapse of the Internet bubble is not as great as last year's 9/11 incident.

Last month, a one-year memorial event was held in New York. It was different from people's imagination. Judging from the economic trajectory in the first three quarters of 2002, although the US economy recovered slightly and its momentum was not strong, the economic recovery was accompanied by the decline in the stock market, and there were many unstable factors, it finally entered a bumpy road of recovery, and there were no "two recessions" as many people predicted.

All in all, signs of spring are beginning to appear.

There was a young guy walking on the streets of Wall Street, holding a bottle of beer in his hand. To be precise, it was beer in a coke bottle, because he was not yet old enough to drink legally...

2002.

The EU began to use unified legal banknotes and coins. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani just received the Knights Medal from the Queen of England. There was constant conflict between Palestinian and Israeli sides, and the US Congress granted President Bush the power to use force against Iraq when necessary.

Just the day before yesterday, on October 12, three vicious explosions occurred in Bali, Indonesia, killing nearly 200 people and injuring more than 300 people.

This is almost the same in the context of the times.

There are many chaotic places, and the United States is as safe as ever, especially in New York, which is currently the largest international city in the world, no doubt about it.

High-rise buildings one after another, new and old buildings coexist, each with their own characteristics. The streets are clean, and there are a lot of garbage stored in the alleys. There are more rats in the sewer than people, so people are no longer surprised by this.

Ye Dongqing has been very happy recently. He thinks he has arrived in a good era.

That night, he jumped downstairs, but after opening his eyes, he found that he was sleeping in a small room that was very familiar to his memory, and the past seemed to be a different life.

Now he is only eighteen years old and is still in his third year of high school. He has no worries, has not been poisoned, and has not much money. He can't figure out why this happens. It's like having a very long dream, or returning to the past after death.

This is not something he is worried about. He is very happy to be able to continue living anyway.

Ye Dongqing remembers what happened recently. He had just had a complete quarrel with the abominable couple who were aunts and uncles. He moved out by himself as soon as he turned 18. In his memory, he only lived in that dilapidated little house for five months. The contract he found in the morning told him that he had moved in last week.

I clearly feel the disorder of time and space. Whether it is the poor IBM laptop or the single-function Nokia phone, even the ugly cars driving on the road are telling him that it is really in 2002 now.

It is hard to imagine that not far from Wall Street is a dilapidated and dirty Chinatown. Ye Dongqing was born and grew up there, and is very familiar with the surrounding streets. If Wall Street is full of billionaires, then the poor people living in Chinatown are like rats on the waterway, and belong to one of the most famous slums in Manhattan.

It has to be said to be a great irony. When it comes to Manhattan, countless high-rise buildings will appear in people's minds, Broadway, rich people, Central Park, and money, but who would remember that a group of poor people with low incomes are still struggling in this amazing place?

The only thing that made Ye Dongqing feel regretful was that he returned to 2002, not 1996, when his parents died of an accident and received about 350,000 US dollars in compensation after his death. His aunt's family used the money to rent a slightly better house and moved out of the slum in Chinatown.

He was too young at that time and the law stipulated that his relatives would raise him on his behalf. Ye Dongqing always felt that the reason why they adopted him was mainly for the money, not for family affection. They also had children, one son and one daughter. In this stressful Manhattan, it was certain that they were biased. For example, if their biological children were sent to private schools to study, Ye Dongqing could only go to garbage public schools.

What’s ridiculous is that even when he came to such a school, his SAT simulation test scores were still better than those two children. Ye Dongqing was extremely disgusted with his cousin of the same age, and he didn’t complain about his cousin with a good personality. The only one who could help him at home was the little cousin named Ding Tian.

Looking back on why they had a fumble, or why they had a fumble last week, it seems that they were not only unwilling to pay his tuition, but instead wanted Ye Dongqing to take out the money he earned from working for his cousin to go to college. What a ridiculous logic.

It is impossible to make up with my aunt and uncle. Since I have moved out, there is naturally no need to move back. There are many young people living alone after the age of 18 in the United States.

A person is more relaxed and comfortable. He is too lazy to spend time dealing with his boring and hateful relatives. At this moment, he walks to a familiar place and looks up.

Standing on the side of the road, I stopped in front of me with a Rolls-Royce convertible Corniche. Before my death, Ye Dongqing also had a Rolls-Royce, but it was just a 2017 Phantom. According to time, the first Phantom after being acquired by BMW should still be under development.

He was not looking at the car, but the building across the road. It felt like he had a whole floor of office in it a few days ago. He could see Wall Street's iconic Taurus from the window. However, the rationality in his mind told Ye Dongqing that in this era, he had not bought that floor.
Chapter completed!