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Y O U T H T E C H N E W S For Kids and Teens, By Kids and Teens ================================================== REMEMBER THIS: (It's your key to Youth Tech!) ** Keyword: YT ** (Pull down your Go To Menu and select "Keyword".) ================================================== Sunday, April 13, 1997 Volume 2, Edition 16 Making headlines this week . . . # YT FEATURE: Youth Tech Community Update # BYTE'S 'O GAMES: Byte Tackles N64 with Clayfighter SE # GEEK HUMOR: ACk! Confusing Computer Terms # NEWSFLASH! Time to Have Fun & Make ASCII Art ================================================== YT FEATURE: Youth Tech Community Update ================================================== By the Youth Tech Community Crew Periodically, it's beneficial to use the YT Newsletter to talk about one of the most important aspects of Youth Tech -- Our Community.. This is each and everyone of you who comes into the chat room, post messages, downloads files or whatever you may do in YT. If you haven't met some of the members of our community yet, perhaps it is time to stop by the Youth Tech chat room. There's always something happening here, whether it be a game, techie type chat or open chatting with your friends and neighbors. Explore the endless topics on our message boards - Have a HTML question, have a Mac or PC problem or just want to see what others are thinking or saying -- Don't miss the extensive conversations on the message boards. You can find so many things to do and to find many new friends in the Youth Tech Community. The possibilities are endless.. Don't be a stranger in your own community! Keyword: YT > Talk & Communicate -OR- Click Here Note: You should never give your password out to anyone online. No AOL Staff or YT Community Leader will EVER ask you for your password. If someone has asked for it, change it immediately at keyword: PASSWORD and report the person asking at keyword: GUIDEPAGER ================================================== BYTE'S 'O GAMES: Coming soon - Special Edition ClayFighter ================================================== Submitted By YTCC Byte On the Nintendo 64 news front -- Be looking for a special edition of ClayFighter by Interplay. The special edition will have more characters and backrounds than ever thought possible. The special edition of ClayFighter will have many more characters than before, such as... Lady Liberty, BoogerMan, Sumo Santa, Mr Frosty etc. A possible no-so-secret character may even be EarthWorm Jim. Look for this exciting title to be coming for Nintendo 64's in the future. The screen shots that I have seen are quite awesome and should prove to be quite worth the cost of the game. Keyword: YT > Have Fun > Games Central! -OR- Click Here ================================================== GEEK HUMOR: ACk! Confusing Computer Terms ================================================== Submitted by YTCC Fabboo In the world of computers, there are a lot of confusing terms. For example, what's TCP? Transmission Control Protocol? Oh, that clears it up... How about ATM? Asynchronous Transfer Protocol? Great. We don't need more terms, just better ones. Here are a few, written not by me but by David Pogue, a contributing MacWorld writer corrupgrade, n. A newer version of software that you discover- after paying $99 to upgrade- is actually slower, bulkier, and less powerful than the previous version. doing an Apple [slang] Excelling at technology, failing at marketing. Anyonym: doing a Microsoft far-sited [adj.] Having a particularly long and tedious Web-page URL address, especially one that requires lots of slashes, dots, and little squiggly marks. prongles, [pl. n.] The little flip-up cord-wrap doodads on a PowerBook Duo power adapter. sellophane [n.] The plastic wrap on newsstand issues of computer magazines that says, "Free CD-ROM inside!" thumbscum [n.] The greasy, fuzzy clumps of gunk that accumulate on the rollers inside the mouseball or PowerBook trackball cavity. usery [n.] Charging a fee for technical phone help. Synonym: greed; avarice; Symantec ================================================== NEWS FLASH! Time to Have Fun & Make ASCII Art ================================================== --- Spring Break? Rainy weekends? Well, come HAVE FUN @ YT! Download some of the coolest files, find a new game or even become a Techie Pal to find new friends around the country. Keyword: YT > Have Fun Button -OR- Click Here --- Don't miss Screamin' Sentences on Monday's @ 10 p.m. EDT. Here's your chance to make wild and bizarre sentences from technological words. While marking your calendar, don't miss our ASCII Art chats on Thursdays @ 7 p.m. EDT. Come learn new ways to make computer art from ASCII characters. Keyword: YT > Talk & Communicate > Live Event Schedule -OR- Click Here - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~~~ HAVE COMMENTS? ~~~ Send all email to the screenname YTCC News. We invite you to submit your own stories and humor. As always, your comments and feedback are appreciated. ===REMEMBER, DON'T GIVE OUT YOUR PASSWORD!!!=== No AOL employee will EVER ask you for your password. If you give it out by mistake, go immediately to keyword: PASSWORD and change your password! ***WANT TO UNSUBSCRIBE?*** The answer is no. You'd miss out on news you need! 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