Dean is very short of money now. After Aunt Rachel told him that he still had a mortgage to pay, he was even more short of money.
It takes at least two or three thousand dollars to get out of prison smoothly, which is a fixed expense and cannot be bargained.
The mortgage is $820... To be honest, even if the house on Charlotte Street is rented out smoothly, Dean doesn't think it can recover so much rent every month.
Now the housing price in Youngstown is 30% to 40% lower than before, and the rental market is also not optimistic.
Dean even made up his mind that as long as he could rent $500, he would go to church to give incense to Jesus.
It's better to rent a house sooner or later. Frank is already looking for potential tenants.
He is the director of Eagle Moving Company. The moving crowd has a great degree of overlap with the crowd looking for housing, so it is optimistic that Dean's house will be able to find potential tenants in less than a week.
Of course, Dean is not in the habit of putting everything on others. He is also planning for the future.
"Jerry, use the computer for me." Dean couldn't wait to open his mouth as soon as he entered the room.
"ComeOn! Dean, I'll clear the customs right away. And we agreed before that it would be mine during the day and yours at night. Jerry stared at the screen and complained without looking back.
"I'll post a post. In addition, if you give me the computer now, I can turn your game characters into little superman." Dean secretly poked the temptation.
"Cheater? The legendary cheat with unlimited bullets and unlimited props? Jerry turned his head and his eyes sparkled.
It's just a small auxiliary tool developed to increase the player's game experience. Don't be so vulgar, Jerry. Dean was very dissatisfied with Jerry's direct.
Can it be called cheating about the wind and shadow moon? That's obviously some necessary means used to increase the feeling of the game.
"It's yours." Without struggling with Dean about whether the words were appropriate, Jerry gave up the computer readily.
"Tomorrow, I promise you will have a good time." Giving the other party a reassuring look, Dean skillfully entered the URL and opened the local BBS in Youngstown.
[House for rent! A four-bedroom detached house on South Charlotte Street in Youngstown!
Believe me, you can never refuse a house with a garden lawn and backyard, not to mention that it is still in the south of the city!
The price is excellent. If you are interested, please contact me by email on a first-come, first-served basis!]
No nonsense, Dean marked a big "ForRent!" on the title of the post. The word.
Highlight the advantages of the location in the south of the city. After all, a good community environment is the first option for most people to consider when living.
After editing the post and clicking send, Dean also took the BBS.
I have to say that the forums of this era are still very primitive. There are dense text throughout, which looks monotonous.
As for the topic discussed, it is either entertainment sports news or local gossip.
There is even no most basic section classification, and everyone is messed up on one page to talk about their own.
It's not easy to screen out the information you want in so much content, and Dean frowned slightly.
But it is understandable. After all, even the Internet was not born. He is still using a local area network based on the Ohio United States.
Yes, this is a large local area network. American Internet was established in Ohio, and its services are only available to users in Ohio.
Although there is a larger network service provider in Virginia, American Online (AOL), and the child prodigy network jointly established by IBM and Columbia, the data between them is not interconnected.
In the era when the network communication protocol has not been unified, everyone fights separately and physically isolates each other.
Take the American Internet in Ohio as an example. At present, it has about 8,000 to 900,000 users, and there are thousands of BBS.
However, because the time of the emergence of the network is still short, whether it is the operator, the founder of BSS, or the user, their use and understanding of the network is very simple.
The exchange of information in the forum is the most widely used representative, but there is nothing else.
There are no advertisements, no information classification, no portals, and no commercial transactions. Everything stays in the original stage.
Dean uses BBS as a platform to post about houses for rent, which is even unique in the whole forum.
Just five minutes after he posted, someone began to post below.
Dean clicked on it and took a look, "Cool!" "The south of the city is a good place. I used to go to the Mil Creek Park there often. I really miss the old days."
Although you may not have the need to rent a house, you can't resist the curiosity of surfing the Internet.
As long as there are new posts, they are habitually coming in and leaving a message.
Well, just think about it and stick it to themselves. Dean withdrew from BBS and no longer paid to mind the rental post he had just posted.
However, the messy network environment on the US Internet gave him an extra idea. Although there are many electronic bulletin boards now, there are no special information classification websites.
All the information is distributed disorderly on the Internet. If someone wants to filter the information they need from the Internet, there is almost no other way but the corresponding BBS.
So can you make a simple website? It doesn't need to be too complicated. You just organize the information into a catalogue.
In this way, network users can click on the entries in the corresponding directory according to their own needs to obtain more comprehensive information.
After a little bit of the feasibility of this matter in his mind, Dean found that it didn't seem to be a difficult thing.
Technology? I have the ability to do it. Information source? There are a wide variety of major BBS on the U.S. network.
The initial goal does not need to be too big. Taking Youngston as the starting point, it specializes in providing various consulting services in the city.
Community services, performances, local news, housing, idle personal belongings for sale, and even some local job opportunities can also be listed.
To put it bluntly, it is a free city service, focusing on localized information mining.
If Youngston's feedback is good, it is not impossible for him to expand his business to metropolitan areas like Cleveland and Columbus when he starts next semester.
There is a larger population and a greater demand for classified information websites.
The more he thought about it, the more Dean thought it was feasible. To be honest, he still didn't know how to use this model to bring benefits to himself.
After all, the current federal law prohibits business on the Internet, but the first step is the advantage.
Dean was excited about the new idea in his mind, but he didn't act immediately.
Because there are more important things in front of him, he is short of money!
Among other things, Dad's thousands of dollars should be at least done. In addition, he also needs some savings to plan for the future.
Which one is free of charge for transferring to another school or doing classified information website?
It's impossible to work part-time. It's good to have $50 a week on the income of a part-time job.
Therefore, if you want to earn considerable income, you can only take an extraordinary way.
Dean decided to be a bad boy.
He took out the MCI phone card that Frank had given him before, and Dean turned it to the back, where there was a string of identification numbers exclusive to the MCI company.
This number usually starts with 1~800, and it is free for anyone to call it, because it is connected to the telephone company server.
After dialing this number, enter the access code according to the recording prompt. Then you can continue to the next step, which is to call the number you need.
The whole process is the same as the use of most phone cards on the market, as Dean operated two days ago.
So what does Dean need this phone card for? He opened a small software, the automatic dialing software, which was just written the night before yesterday.
After entering the dial number of MCI company under the corresponding address, the next instruction is that he gives a random number of 6.
After all this, Dean turned his head to look for his cousin, and he saw a scene with hot eyes.
"F*ckyou, Jerry! Don't shoot in front of me with the Attic magazine!
If you are willing to do so, I don't mind letting Aunt Rachel and Uncle Frank come upstairs to watch together.
"oh...oh...OK~!" Jerry, who was finished, threw away the magazine and began to look for the tissue at the head of the bed.
That skillful movement looked at Dean for a while. Fortunately, I don't sleep in the same bed with him, otherwise sooner or later I will be disgusted to death by this guy.
"Jerry, it's time for you to find a girlfriend." Dean's sincere advice.
"I just broke up, Dean~" Jerry, who had finished cleaning up, was already lying in bed and was drowsy.
"MotherF*cker, don't sleep yet. What about what you promised me?" Seeing that he was about to enter the sage time, Dean was anxious.
His own plan to make money has not been settled yet, but this guy lives like Teddy.
"What?" Jerry raised his head in a daze.
"The number of the modem is from your school." Dean reminded him of what he had told him a thousand times ago.
"Oh, here it is." Jerry took out a note from his trousers pocket. "This is what I got from my classmate who worked part-time in the school computer room with two movie tickets."
Dean couldn't wait to take the note and open it until he saw the number on it.
"Don't forget to cheat me... Oh, no, it's an assistant."
"I'm sure it's cool for you to ascend to heaven, and you don't even want to pick up the Attic magazine in the future." When he got what he wanted, Dean began to talk.
However, Jerry did not respond to him. When Dean looked over, he was already sleeping like a dead pig.
Without him, Dean excitedly entered the number on the note into the program.
Well, the last step is completed. Here is the moment to witness the miracle.
The first step is to confirm the dial number of the phone company. There is no problem.
In the second step, the 6 random numbers verified for the first time, Dean filled in the access code on the phone card in his hand, after all, it is known and available.
The third step is to confirm the modem number of Jerry School.
Gently press the enter key, the code runs in turn, and soon the terminal modem responds.
"Holyshit! I knew it was okay!" Dean clenched his fist excitedly.
After just verification, his model has proved to be feasible.
Dean's program has only one purpose, which is to try out the available 6-bit random access code.
Each phone card has a unique access code, and you can make calls with it. According to the understanding of later generations, this is the password of the phone card.
If you want to crack the card, it is too slow to rely on manual efficiency. As the first group of geeks in this era, Dean naturally thought of using a computer to complete this work.
Write a software to keep dialing and switch the access code every few seconds until it is dialed.
Among them, the campus modem number provided by Jerry is used as an answering terminal.
Dean knows that the modems in the school computer room are basically running 24 hours a day, and they also have an automatic response function.
In this way, whenever the switched random access code is available, that is, when the phone is dialed. Then the modem will respond and be recognized by the software.
Software automatic dialing → input 6-bit random access code → modem response, a perfect loop forming.
As long as the software recognizes the response of the terminal, it means that an available card password is cracked.
This available card will be automatically written to the computer's floppy disk by the software and recorded.
This action is automatically executed by the software every few seconds.
While the school server is unused at night, the software is uninterrupted, while Dean is responsible for going to bed.
Bingo~! Fully automatic workers are officially launched.