Now he is retired and spends most of his day posting messages on Facebook. He quickly adapted to the new life by making easy money in a dot-com company. Time has passed, it was a happy end for Johnny. Johnny was rescued, but there are still other islands The school realized that those were new times, and new challenges were about to come. They have discovered the power of the Internet, and I contributed to that. Thousands of students were accessing my website every day to exchange messages. But I was happy that we were not living on an island anymore. It was not because I found bullying messages funny. We decided that the best and easiest solution was to take the site down. I didn’t time to moderate the messages' - I said. 'I got busy with my studies and lost track of the site activities. I had no idea that people were accessing the website that much and using that as a social network. The director was concerned because parents were complaining about bullying on the school’s website. More specifically, they were printouts of the scrapbook feed. They were printouts of the web pages I had built. One day, I was called by the director of the school. The NASDAQ Composite index spiked in the late 90s and then fell sharply as a result of the dot-com bubble. On a boat, Johnny caught the big wave and finally left the island. With the Internet boom peak, boats arrived on the island and things started to get connected. However, everything changed a year later, in 1999. The site was promoted during the annual Science Fair, but unfortunately, it didn't get much traction. Website? We don't have anyone to do it… They said.ĭays later, I came with a website for the school which had a live scrapbook (like a Facebook’s wall and feed) for students to leave their messages. I also requested a website for the school. As a start, I requested a new and updated computer lab, luckily the school was already working on it. Super powers for allīy the age of 13, I joined the Student’s Council to fight for students rights and improve education in my school as a whole. Having access to the Internet and digital encyclopedias during the elementary and middle school was a game changer. I was lucky because my dad was an engineer and he taught me how to “surf” online. Only a few friends in my class had access to it. It was the beginning of the Internet Era in Brazil.

I grew up in Brazil and at the age of 12, I saw my school stuck on an island. In my child's mind, I knew that if I had the tools, I would be able to design a different ending for Johnny.

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