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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 ================================================== Add Keyword: YT, YOUTH or YOUTHTECH to your *Favorite Places* list, or we'll hunt you down and drag you here kicking and screaming! ================================================== Sunday, November 24th, 1996 Volume 2, Edition 4 MAKING HEADLINES THIS WEEK . . . # The News: ha ha, bet you were waiting for a catchy title! # Techie Terms: youth tech defined! # A Day In The Life: we fire prying questions at the YTCCs! # Geek Humor: find out why the Mac chicken crossed the road! # Spotlight on Chat: expanded chat section this week! # Exclamation Points Anonymous Support Group: just kidding :) =============== ~~> THE NEWS! =============== Yes, the news. Why? Because "I Can't Think Of A Catchy Title But Here's The News Anyway" wouldn't fit across the screen. Please, try to control your enthusiasm! I have great, wonderful, terrific stuff for you this week! Well.... ok. I have cool stuff for you this week! Oh, forget it. I have stuff for you this week. Here's a nice letter from Jeremy to cheer you up after that depressing announcement! <grin> Hi everyone! Since Youth Tech has opened, I've been getting all sorts of great feedback. Some people want to see new things, others want to see things changed, and more! Anyways, feedback has two major parts to it from my point of view -- reading the feedback and understanding it -- and the second part is DOING something with it. So what, you ask? Well, the second part is going to be happening very soon! We are going to be building a new and improved Youth Tech! We're going to put in what YOU want to see. Some things you can expect: - More fun stuff to do (contests, trivia, games, etc) - Expanded Resource Centers - Easier navigation of areas (more consistency) - And MUCH more! :) Now is the time to send as much feedback as possible about what you want to see in the new Youth Tech! Just send the mail to YT MAIL or use our Feedback form in YT. For now, keep checking the current Youth Tech! JeremyYT Youth Tech All comments, complaints, suggestions, opinions and flames should be hurled at me, screen name YTCC Elf. Hopefully not many of that latter. For this newsletter, you can also send complaints and flames to JeremyYT. I still want the compliments, though. <giggle> ================= ~~> TECHIE TERMS! ================= You've always wanted to know what "Bezier Curve" means, right? Of course you have, since I'm always right. Well, the Techie Terms dictionary at Youth Tech can help with all your technobabble needs! Memorize three or four terms and impress your friends! They won't know that you have no clue what you're talking about, since they have no idea what bezier curve means either! LOL! Lost? I thought you would be. Keyword: YT >>> Click the DICTIONARY button, and yer there! =================== ~~> A DAY IN THE LIFE =================== ... of a Youth Tech host, that is. In this new corner of YT News, we catch the hardworking hosts off-duty, trap them, and ask them prying questions until they start wishing they'd applied to Tech Live instead. That's what we usually do, anyway. This week, YT News went looking for a victim to interview, and the only one we could find refused comment. So if you're mad about no interview, send hate mail to YTCC Talon. <insert trademark evil laughter here> Because I didn't get to make everyone suffer with one of my infamous editorials this week, due to the lovely letter from our producer, I'd like to take this opportunity to talk for a few paragraphs. For those of you who didn't run screaming into the hills after reading that, thanks! <grin> Today's topic concerns this newsletter. I bet a lot of you are wondering why it didn't arrive on Saturday as is the usual delivery schedule. I'll tell you why: because it's currently 2am eastern time on Sunday morning as I write this. The reason? Very simple. I spent the day cleaning my room. It was lots of fun. Note the sarcasm. For you poor oppressed kids with dictorial moms out there, you know this feeling. For you moms who have kids, well... :PPPPP <grin> That's all for today, folks! ================= ~~> GEEK HUMOR ================= Yes! Yes! We have submissions! Wheeee!!!! That's all I have to say this week. Oh yeah, and much thanks to MikeV8372 for informing us all of the answer to that age-old puzzle: why DID the chicken cross the road? This Week's Geek Humor: ######################################################### NT Chicken: Will cross the road in June. No, August. September for sure. OS/2 Chicken: It crossed the road in style years ago, but it was so quiet that nobody noticed. Win 95 Chicken:You see different colored feathers while it crosses, but cook it and it still tastes like ... chicken. Microsoft Chicken (TM): It's already on both sides of the road. And it just bought the road. Lotus Chicken: Don't you *dare* try to cross the road the same way we do! Mac Chicken: No reasonable chicken owner would want a chicken to cross the road, so there's no way to tell it to. Newton Chicken: Can't cluck, can't fly, and can't lay eggs, but you can carry it across the road in your pocket ! Java Chicken: If your road needs to be crossed by a chicken, the server will download one to the other side. (Of course, those are chicklets) Web Chicken: Jumps out onto the road, turns right, and just keeps on running. Gopher Chicken: Tried to run, but got flattened by the Web chicken. Assembler Chicken: First it builds the road ... C Chicken: It crosses the road without looking both ways. C++ Chicken: The chicken wouldn't have to cross the road, you'd simply refer to him on the other side. VB Chicken: USHighways!TheRoad.cross (aChicken) OOP (Object Oriented Programming) Chicken: It doesn't need to cross the road, it just sends a message. ######################################################### ROFLMELAO! Remember, send jokes to screen name YTCC Elf. Please! ===================== ~~> SPOTLIGHT ON CHAT ===================== Chat is cool at YT! Yah yah, I know you already knew that. But I always start out the Spotlight on Chat by saying that chat is cool, and I figured if it was different this week, someone might worry about me. Heaven forbid. Besides, chat really is cool! Cool cool cool! Yeesh, caffiene overdose again. Anyway... there's a new and improved chat schedule at Youth Tech! From now on, all the chats last a whole ninety minutes instead of the previous hour. Cool! Since there are too many neato new topics for me to choose just three, here's the whole schedule fer you to look over. Cool! <grin> Sunday, November 17, 1996 5:30pm EST | 2:30pm PST -- Windows 95 (Logic, Dig) 7:00pm EST | 4:00pm PST -- Online FAQs (Josh) 8:30pm EST | 6:30pm PST -- Game Chat (Meteor) 10:00pm EST | 7:00pm PST -- Getting Around the Net (Jon) Monday, November 18, 1996 7:00pm EST | 4:00pm PST -- Internet Chat (Josh, Fabboo) 8:30pm EST | 5:30pm PST -- Mac Chat (Opus) 10:00pm EST | 7:00pm PST -- Screamin Sentences (Music, DNA) Tuesday, November 19, 1996 7:00pm EST | 4:00pm PST -- Computer Age (DMB, Smile) 10:00pm EST | 7:00pm PST -- Game (YTCC) Wednesday, November 20, 1996 7:00pm EST | 4:00pm PST -- Digital Art (Talon) 8:30pm EST | 5:30pm PST -- Daffynitions (Opus, Magic) 10:00pm EST | 7:00pm PST -- AOL Q&A (DNA, McCoy) Thursday, November 21, 1996 7:00pm EST | 4:00pm PST -- ASCII Art (DMB, Fabboo) 8:30pm EST | 5:30pm PST -- Software Chat (Magic, Smile) 10:00pm EST | 7:00pm PST -- Mac Chat (McCoy) Friday, November 22, 1996 7:00pm EST | 4:00pm PST -- Game (Merlin) 8:30pm EST | 5:30pm PST -- Windows 95 (Elf, Yooka) 10:00pm EST | 7:00pm PST -- Internet Chat (Meteor) 11:30pm EST | 8:30pm PST -- Star Trek Trivia (TerryH, DNA) Saturday, November 23, 1996 6:30pm EST | 3:30pm PST -- Digital Art (Talon) 8:00pm EST | 5:00pm PST -- Mac Chat (Josh) 9:30pm EST | 6:30pm PST -- Word Scramble Game! (TerryH) 11:00pm EST | 8:00pm PST -- Web Clubs (Elf) That's All, Folks *-------------------------------------------------------------------------------* Stay tuned for another exciting issue next week! ===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! And don't try surfing anyone, either. ***WANT TO UNSUBSCRIBE?*** The answer is: NO! Of course you don't want to unsubscribe. But if you really, truly feel that you must, I suppose we understand. Send an email with the following: TO: Listserv@listserv.aol.com SUBJECT: Signoff BODY: SIGNOFF YOUTH-TECH (Note: this is the only way to unsubscribe. Clicking Reply won't work.) |