Product: Tell Me Why: Computers & The Internet (2007)
Rating: 4.0
Buck Rogers lives again!
It was time for me to get an after-school job and a tip from a bud got me an interview with a local doctor."I need someone at the reception desk as soon as possible," she said. "Do you know anything about computers or the internet?""No, I'm afraid I don't.""My goodness, how do you survive?""Well, I . . . ""Do you have a car?""No.""How do you get around?""My skateboard."She smiled. "Of course, you're a teenager."I didn't have the job long, but I learned enough about computers to know I would never get ahead without one of my own.But I found a Toshiba with tenacles that reached across this world and just raked in information. It was 21st Century technology that really got me excited."Okay, now show us what you can do with all that information," Mom said. "How about finishing high school and starting college? How about learning all you can about countries you'll never see?"Yes, I could do those things if I really buckled down, she believed.What sold my dad on the Toshiba was seeing a neighbor boy pull one from his backpack. He was pursuing a college degree online.