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Hello!
Welcome to our world. Let
me first introduce you to my friends. This
is Cliparti Sweet And
this is Fluppy Little. Hey,
you didn't introduce yourself. Oh
yeah! I am Windi Wise. What
are we here to do? Is it a party? Yes
and No. Can’t
you ever give a straight answer to poor little Fluppy. We are going to
a new world. A world of computers. A
new world? Where is it? How are we going? Stupid!
Cliparti, I told you not to get him along. I
am not stupid and can very well understand anything that you tell me.
Provided, of course, you explain it to me. You
are too young to understand this. No,
nobody is too young or too old to understand computers. Okay,
okay, I will explain it to you. But only once. If you follow, fine. If
you don’t, go ask your teacher. Okay
that’s fine by me. Computers
is a whole world in itself. It has everything and anything in it. Be
it games, learning, fun, music, information and, as I said simply,
EVERYTHING. Really?
Does it have my school poems? Ha
Ha! Yeah, sure. There is a portal called Pitara on the Internet for
kids with a wide range of information and fun, including story books,
magazines, folk tales, poems, world fact finder, etc. All this you can
find at http://www.pitara.com. What
is this http & www? Oh!
Http is a protocol for Internet addresses. In real life you have an
address where people needing you might approach you. Similarly, in the
virtual world there exists an Internet address. If we desire to get
some information we have to know where to knock. For example, www.pitara.com
is one of the addresses for accessing this kind of information. In
a nutshell, to get connected to anything or anybody we just have to
log on to that unique address. You
mean I can also have my own address. What if somebody might want to
reach me? Yeah,
sure. As you are in the age group 3-13, you can have your own kiddy
E-mail account at www.kiddonet.com. Wow!
That’s a cool way to impress my friends. But tell me what is e-mail? E-mail
is nothing but a message typed, sent or received through a network by
using computers. You
know Fluppy, I have my own home page on
www.kiddonet.com. Here I have put all information about myself, my
family, pets, room and a lot more. I have even added music to it to
make it more interesting. A
computer is such a lovely thing. I’ve already started to fall in
love with it. Only if it could help me with my homework, too! What
would you say if I said yes. Gosh!
I would say, “I don’t believe you” Well,
computers do go beyond your imagination. There are many softwares that
would teach you fundamentals, correct your answers, or even tell you
where you went wrong. Even your spelling and grammar usage can be
checked. So you can aspire to get an “A” grade now. That’s
SUPERB! If you tell me how to do it I’ll buy you a thank you card
from Archies. Don't
worry, I’ll tell you. But you need not buy the card. You can create
one yourself. But
I am not good at drawing. Don’t
worry , you can take the pictures from the Clipart gallery in
Microsoft Winword and design the card in paintbrush. Without the fear
of spilling colours, you can paint the picture as you want. But
then how will I give you the card? It will be inside the computer. Little,
then what you do is you give her your computer. Hey
Windi, you’ve again started teasing him. Fluppy, you can always take
a printout of what you want by connecting your computer to a printer. Okay,
your card is due. I am going out to play now. Go
play in rain. Oh
no! Why does it have to rain every time I want to play football. Don’t
you know its July, honey? Rainy season. Still
you can play football and that, too, as a single player with the
computer. I can download the football game from the Internet for you
from www.lvsports.uni.cc for free. Do you want it? Now,
you are being a darling. That
should keep you quiet for a while. —Ira
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