After thanking Mouse and Pee Wee  
for their help, I went home and looked 
through the newspaper for computer     
deals. I wasn’t as good at this com-   
puter stuff as Mouse was, but I had    
used them before.                      
     A few days later, I got one, and  
after a couple more days, finally got  
it online.                             
     Once I did that, I immediately    
went to the search engine that Mouse   
had used. They offered a whole slew of 
services, if you got an account with   
them.                                  
     The account was free, and one of  
those services was a kind of newspaper 
clipping service. It was similar to the
old school clipping service, except    
they were electronic links instead of  
newspaper clippings. Click on the link 
* they sent you, and an online news        
article would pop up.                  
     After creating an e-mail account, 
I learned how to write html, and used  
another of their services to set up a  
simple missing person website.         
     The clipping service was an       
interesting adventure. All it needed   
was a keyword, or keywords, and then it
would search through thousands of      
online English language newspapers from
all over the world.                    
     It did this continuously, until it
found an article that had a word that  
matched my keyword, or keywords, and   
then, it would send me a link to it in 
an e-mail.                             
     The first and only keyword that I 
ever used was “missing”.               



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