`DEAR LESLEY' ENJOYS ADVISING TEENS ON WEB.Byline: Tom Hopkins Hopkins, city (1990 pop. 16,534), Hennepin co., SE Minn., a suburb of Minneapolis; inc. as West Minneapolis 1893, name changed 1928. The city manufactures machinery, computer and electronic parts, steel products, air pollution equipment, ophthalmic lenses, tools, Cox News Service A Vandalia-Butler High School student may be the ``Dear Abby'' of the World Wide Web. Lesley Ann ANN, Scotch law. Half a year's stipend over and above what is owing for the incumbency due to a minister's relict, or child, or next of kin, after his decease. Wishaw. Also, an abbreviation of annus, year; also of annates. In the old law French writers, ann or rather an, signifies a year. Jones, 18, launched her TeenSpeak site on the Internet Jan. 8, and the advice column for young computer browsers already has won national attention. ``The site got nearly 200,000 hits in January,'' said Bill Griffin, who owns Coax-Net Internet Service in Vandalia. The Internet provider Internet provider - Internet Service Provider helped Lesley develop her Web pages and keeps a log of activity on each site. Many have contacted TeenSpeak since Yahoo listed it as a Site of the Week and Netscape put it in What's New. ``This is the most successful Web site we've hosted,'' Griffin said. Lesley is scheduled to go on national television to talk about TeenSpeak. She has been invited to fly to San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden on Feb. 26 to appear on ``The Web,'' a Sci-Fi Channel program about computers. Lesley had a shortcut (1) In Windows, a shortcut is an icon that points to a program or data file. Shortcuts can be placed on the desktop or stored in other folders, and double clicking a shortcut is the same as double clicking the original file. to the Internet. Her father owns Web M, a Vandalia company that builds Web pages for woodworking companies and sellers of motorcycle motorcycle, motor vehicle whose design is based on the bicycle. The German inventor Gottlieb Daimler is generally credited with building the first practical motorcycle in 1885. The motorcycle did not become dependable and popular, however, until after 1900. accessories. ``I went to her and said look, I'll fund a Web site for you if you come up with something to put there. My intention was to get her familiar with the Internet, and when she came up with TeenSpeak, she just blew me away,'' Lesley's father said. A senior at Vandalia-Butler, Lesley came up with a Web site where teens can ask questions and or just give the world their opinions. She said the site fits her personality. Lesley has received a few inevitable crank messages, as well as invitations to dinner. ``I try to answer everybody,'' she said, ``but there are some questions I try not to answer. Like, one kid wrote and said, `My dog doesn't have a nose; how does it smell?' I try not to answer stupid questions, but I like giving advice. ``When I can make someone happy, it makes me happy.'' |
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