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Intro to 21st Century American Culture - Monday - Period 5

When the students arrive, they see a row of tables along each side of the classroom. The row on the left has a number of telephones and the row on the right has a number of computers.

"Afternoon, everyone," Lorelai said once they'd all arrived and taken their seats. "Today we're going to learn about modern technology. Communication is a very important part of our society and, currently, the most efficient and widely used methods of communication are the telephone and the internet."

She went on to give a brief history of the telephone and the internet.

"Now, half of you can play with the phones and the other half can play with the computers. In twenty minutes, we'll switch, so everyone has a chance to try everything. Marty, Jaye and I will be around to help if you need it. And those of you who have already mastered these skills can offer help as well."

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"Oh, here they are," Joxer said. He pressed the 'g', then the 'o', then the '0'.

"Ha. This technology stuff is easy."

"Is there another G in there?"

"Let me just find the... there it is," Joxer said. He hit the key. "There. The 'g' spot has been pressed."

"Good, good, just like that," Pete replied absently. "Okay, now we need an L and an E, another dot, then a c, an o, and an m. Then we can look at tentacles."

Joxer looked up from the keyboard and stared at Pete.

"Tentacles?!"

That may have been a bit loud.

Pete grinned. "Hell yeah. With these girls not wearin' much clothin'. . . . We'll have to find a lot more letters before we get there, though. Now, come on, where's the L and the E?"

Any of Joxer's fear of tentacles was quashed by the idea of girls with not much clothing.

He found the L and E and pressed the keys. "What else was there?"

"One more dot, then c, o, m. Hurry up!"

Joxer hit the keys, as asked, after a minute of hunting and pecking.

"There," he said.

He hadn't pressed an enter key or anything.

"Where's the girls?"

"Oh, right, I forgot! You gotta push the button that says 'enter'. THEN you get the tentacles."

Joxer hesitantly pressed the enter key.

There was definitely no tentacles on www.go0gle.com

There wasn't much of anything, in fact.

"Huh."

Pete frowned. Then reached out to whap Joxer upside the head.

"Dammit, Joxer, you broke it! You broke the internet!"

"Ow!" Joxer rubbed the back of his head where Pete hit it.

"Maybe it..." He pointed up at the top of the screen. "That isn't an o!"

"And who's fault is that? Fix it! Fix it!"

"I'll fix it! I'll fix it!" Joxer flailed for a bit and tried to figure out how to clear the box and start over.

It took him five minutes, but he did it. He even managed to type the URL correctly.

"There, fixed!" He said, hoping he won't get hit again.

"Well, good. Now, we gotta type tentacles in . . . that box."

"You put tentacles in your box," Joxer objected, getting out of his chair. "That's really not my sort of thing."

"Do you wanna see the girls with no clothes on or not?"

Joxer sat back down.

"You better be right about this."

He typed in tentacles, after more hunting and pecking. He even hit enter.

"Well?"

"Click on . . ." Pete read the screen. "That blue text."

Joxer grabbed the mouse and slowly wrestled it to the text indicated.

Then he clicked.

"Oh sweet Aphrodite what is that?!"

Pete grinned. "That . . . is the comin' thing, my friend. The comin' thing."

"The what thing?" Joxer said, somewhat horrified.

"Comin'. You know, like the future?"

"The future?" Joxer said. "That's gonna happen in the future?"!"

Intro to 21st Century American Culture - Monday - Period 5

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