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Monday, April 9, 2001
Cyber Kids

Don’t think but ‘thunk’

Hi friends and off we go to another journey to the cyber world. Let’s see what all we come across today.

www.rice.edu/projects/topics/edition11/games-section.htm 

You know we have something common with all children round the globe. We all love to play games. Simple games such as jump rope, marbles, top spinning, card games are played all over but with different versions and variations. Discover how children of Venezuela, Mexico, Korea, Germany and other countries play these. All this and more in the 11th edition of this online magazine. Learn new games from around the world. What’s more, you can also view other issues of this magazine. Look at different experiences and languages, books and movies. Submit your own writing if you want it to be seen by your international friends. View special photo gallery and see pictures of international students from Brazil, China, Korea, and Mexico demonstrating how they played games when they were kids.

Http://www.neopets.com

Hey, haven’t you always wanted to own a pet? Your Tommy always irritates your father by tearing away his newspaper. And then he gets a good scolding. How you wish you had your personal pet to look after, to feed, to bathe to call your own. Now is the time for it. Own your virtual pet on the greatest virtual pet site on the Internet. Get included in the community of virtual pet owners. What’s more, you can chat, play games, shop around or participate in auctions. Explore the world, visit online stores or send neomails and take part in the neopoll. So all animal lovers — come and sign up with neopets today. Its simple, fast and free.

http://kids.MysteryNet.com

Have you ever dreamt of being one of the Hardy Boys? Or have you wished you could join Nancy Drew. Time has come to convert your dreams to reality. Try solving mysteries, scary stories, magic tricks and contests all on mysterynet.com. There is always a beginning and why not make it today. See how Nancy Drew and Bess work under cover at Tiger Park, a reserve for tigers, to discover who is sabotaging the park. Learn from them and use their tricks and techniques to solve other mysteries. Who knows, you might be the next Sherlock Holmes.

http://www.thunk.com/how.to.html

Everybody has an access to the Internet. Where hacking is no longer a big thing, how can you prevent your messages from being made public? Something has to be done to maintain secrecy. Thunk.com is all about sending secret messages. Get tips to write secret notes to friends, sign up your name in secret code or send secret e-mail to pen pals or keep diaries and other stuff private. Get other useful tips on e-mail learning from thunk.com. Hey, What are you thinking now? Don’t think but thunk.

— IV

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