PLUTO: A WEBSITE FOR KIDS The VPRO broadcast organization asked students to create a website for children. This resulted in a planet called 'Pluto' where everybody who logs in gets their own identity. There are several craters on this planet with different attractions. One of these is the digital zoo. The zoo has four sections: the woods, the savanna, the rainforest and an ice floe. In every area there are five animals to adopt. When you've adopted an animal, it's intended that you keep looking after your animal. If you don't, the animal will decay and will eventually die. If you adopt an animal, you willl have to look after it of course. The adopter is the only one who can do that. When looking at someone else's animal, you can send him or her a note about the way the animal is taken care of. If you don't want the animal anymore, you can return the care of the animal to the zoo, so someone else will be able to adopt it. Unfortunately the VPRO has taken the site offline since they do not longer maintain their 'old' cgi scripts. © VPRO 1994.