Livestreaming Across Time: From the Start in 1996, the Whole Internet Wept

[Livestreaming + Time Travel + Conversations with Our Forebears, Letting Them See the Prosperity of the Future]

Exhausted by the grind of livestreaming and on the verge of quitting, Xu Mo was bound to the [Time-Travel Livestream System].

From then on, his livestreams could cross time and space, allowing him to talk to real people from every era of history.

For his first broadcast, he returned to 1996.

That year, China’s GDP was only one-fifth that of the island nation, and its per capita GDP was less than one-fiftieth.

Xu Mo interviewed a young person at a shopping mall: “Do you think we can surpass them in thirty years?”

The young person gave a bitter smile. “If we can catch up in fifty years... that’d be pretty good, right?”

That year, an enemy aircraft carrier approached, and the skies were heavy with the threat of war.

The army loaded tanks onto fishing boats, and every sailor wrote a final letter.

Xu Mo asked a soldier gripping his rifle, “Do you believe our military will be strong enough to make the great powers tremble in thirty years?”

The soldier’s eyes were resolute, but he shook his head. “It’ll be difficult. But whether now or in the future, we won’t give up an inch of our land!”

At first, viewers assumed it was “top-tier AI-generated footage” and marveled at it.

But as they kept watching, everyone ended up in tears.

“Streamer! You lured me in, but you didn’t tell me things were this hard thirty years ago!”

“Please, you have to tell them how powerful we became!”

When Xu Mo showed the people he’d interviewed in 1996 “proof” from 2026, the entire era fell silent.

But Xu Mo said:

“In 1996, you looked up to the world. In 2026, the world looks up to us.”

“And you built this miracle with your own hands.”

And this was only the first livestream.

From then on, he would take hundreds of millions of viewers along to experience every moment of humiliation, struggle, and glory in China’s history.