# China's Internet in Three Acts

the "boarding pass" theory, from PC to mobile to AI

The internet's old metaphor is the "boarding pass": every new era, incumbents scramble for a ticket to the next world, and those who miss it fossilize. Using a 2013 map of Chinese internet products, this piece argues ChatGPT restarted the boarding-pass mechanism, and reads China's internet history as three acts — PC, mobile, AI.

**中文原文 · 知乎:** https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/2050875255426750031

**English original · X:** coming soon