As James and Alyssa ate their food, they talked with everyone else at the table and browsed the internet. They sent each other links on chat rooms, played games, and helped each other trouble shoot when their connections, or computers, ran into issues. Everyone accessed the internet through their terminals in their own way, but stayed connected to the same world wide web. Many students helped run local websites and sometimes even ones accessed across the nation by writing new code that could be used. James helped run a website where local West Virginia hunters would upload trail cam footage and discuss hunting. Being only a junior in high school, most of his time was spent on the internet while he occasionally got into trouble when he tinkered with code in the wrong places.
Before they knew it, it was time for the results to be posted on the school’s home page. As the results were being revealed for different categories, James typed up a direct message to Robbie on the school’s local chat as Alyssa watched. Just as the results James expected were posted for the general software category, he sent a message.