We’re giving away two copies of The Future of Us ARC!
Learn More About the Book:
A new book from Jay Asher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Th1rteen R3asons Why, and Carolyn Mackler, Printz Honor winning author of The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things.
It’s 1996, and less than half of all American high school students have ever used the internet.
Emma just got her first computer and an America Online CD-ROM.
Josh is her best friend. They power up and log on–and discover themselves on Facebook, fifteen years in the future.
Everybody wonders what their destiny will be. Josh and Emma are about to find out…
How to Win an Advanced Reader’s Copy:
Step 1: Leave a comment on this post telling us about the first time you remember using the internet.
Step 2: Make sure you use a valid email when you comment.
That’s It-No duplicate entries please!
We will be choosing 2 comments at random to win a copy of the ARC and we will contact the winners via email. We will also post the winners here on our blog.
Comment on or before Friday August 26th, 2011 to enter, and we will randomly draw the winners on Monday, August 29th, 2011.
UPDATE: This giveaway is now closed-the randomly selected winners were Kris Guy and Lise Spangenthal. Thanks for entering!
The first time I used the internet I think I was in college. I remember thinking that there was no way this was going to take over traditional researching. Couldn’t have been more wrong! As a teacher, I have found that is all students WANT to use. Who would have thought?!?!
I know exactly what you mean! Whereas we used to run to the encyclopedia, dictionary or call the ASU grammar hotline, now everyone just “Googles” it!
I remember a $700 phone bill one month in 1992 from all my AOL usage. Boy am I glad the Internet is not billed by the minute any more.
Holy Cow, that’s crazy! I was working at a dept at ASU when I did my first searches, looking up sites that of course would later be super popular, and they didn’t even exist yet. – Cori
I’m not sure that I remember the first time I used the Internet; that vagueness almost leads me to believe that I know what I’m doing, can keep up with my students, and . . . . Until, that is, I realize what great, new things everyone else is doing.
I do remember taking a Reference class in which we were asked to discover when Everett Reuss died. We all looked diligently, then frantically, but could not find a definitive answer. We were all a little embarrassed when we were told that “no one knew” because he had just disappeared. Guess reading what you find has always been important.
I was a mom with young kids and was not about to be intimidated by the 21st century. My first computer was an Apple lle. Which didn’t have internet. I then upgraded to a Mac LC ll and believe it or not I taught HTML to my students on MAC LCs
When I was in college, computers took up whole rooms, now they fit into a pocket. Amazing technological advances in my lifetime
I took an internet class at the University of Phoenix about twenty years ago. I thought it was amazing that I could communicate with people from all over the world, but I had to laugh because the first thing we had to search for in the class were recipes. Of all the amazing things we could find on the internet I thought it was ridiculous that we were searching for recipes!
It’s funny though, now, because food blogs are so popular! I search for recipes all the time, but still love my print cookbooks. All that info available, and we still look up what we love. 🙂 Thanks for sharing!