4:00 PM PST
As Marty and Calvin headed towards the front of Wal-Mart, Marty was very stunned with what they had seen in the clothing section. It did appear that shoes with power laces had already been invented, but not self-drying or self-fitting jackets.
"I guess the jacket Doc had me wear in 2015," Marty pointed out, "will be invented sometime between this year and 2015. It's pretty neat that shoes with power laces have already been invented. You know, I really haven't noticed what kind of shoes our future children are wearing. We'll really have to check and find out."
"I guess a lot will change within twenty years," Calvin commented. "The Pit Bull and powered hoverboards apparently haven't been invented, yet - but there were just a lot of Mattel ones. I do wonder around when the hoverboards were invented."
As Marty and Calvin walked up to Auntie Anne's, the children all seemed quite happy to see them. They were happily munching on pretzels, as they were chattering about a school activity they were pretty excited about. Marty began to wonder if their older selves would remember this day, and what they were doing right now.
"Marty! Calvin!" Jennifer called out. "I realized that I never really had a chance to check out my email. I was thinking we should head back to the internet cafe for a little while, before we head over to the park. The kids are really wanting to play a few games with their buddies online, and also check out their favourite websites."
What the hell is a website? Marty thought, to himself. He also wasn't very sure of what the word "online" meant. He figured he would really have to check out what the internet was all about. It would sure be real nice to have all the information you could at your fingertips. He also had to find out what exactly an email was.
"All right, kids!" called out Jennifer. "Let's head out to the car! We'll be at the internet cafe for about half an hour, so that should give you about enough time to check your email and see if any of any of your friends are online. How does that sound?"
The kids all cheered, as everyone was headed outside of the store. Marty and Calvin grabbed two bags each, as they went out. It was real strange to watch cars hovering and landing into the Wal-Mart parking lot. This really was an interesting experience.
Marty decided to sit in the front seat with Jennifer, and Calvin sat in the middle seat with Marlene. Marty Jr just sat in the back seat with his look-alike cousins, Mike and Alex. Marty smiled at how adorable the three young boys really were. He wondered what this version of Marty Jr would be like, by the time he was seveneen.
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As everyone stepped into Lou's Internet Cafe and Coffee Shoppe, Calvin and Marty headed towards where the computer terminals were. Calvin was just curious to find out how these things worked. He really had a little more experience with computers then Marty did, but he was sure that computer technology advanced by far.
He saw this sign that read "Please press thumb to plate to start computer!" As Calvin pressed his thumb to the plate, the moniter turned on. The first thing he sure noticed was a flashing mailbox in the top right of the screen indicating how he had three new messages. He then noticed all kinds of icons to the left side of the screen.
Calvin clicked on the mailbox icon, which immediately opened up a program. On this top bar, it read "Hill Valley Webmail - Internet Explorer". Below the bar were several buttons that read "File", "Edit", "View", "Favourites", "Tools", and "Help".
"Whoa!" Marty gasped, as he stared at the screen. "This is what email looks like? You have three messages. I can see that one of them is from Linda McFly, saying she has something important to sure tell you. Another message is from someone offering you a lower mortgage rate for your house, and the third message is... What the hell?"
"Increase your penis size by four to five inches?" Calvin gasped, as he read the title of the third message. "Why the hell would I want someone to just send me that kind of garbage? It looks like somebody may have decided to send me some junk mail!"
"Whoa! What's this?" Marty asked, as he noticed something that was near the top of the program. "It says 'search'! I really wonder what it does! Well, let's think of what to search for. I'm tempted to search for my name, but that could be very risky."
"Let's just look for Huey Lewis," Calvin suggested. When he clicked on the "search" button, the window in front of them changed. In this input space on top, there were the letters "http" followed by a colon and two slashes. After that were three W's, as well as the words "google" and "com" - each was separated by a period.
"What the hell could that be?" Marty asked, as he pointed to the input space. "Let's type in the words 'Huey' and 'Lewis', and see what we come up with. I really doubt they have achieved the same level of notability as, say, Led Zeppelin. It might still be interesting to see what Huey Lewis is up to these days, though."
"Wow!" Calvin gasped, after he clicked on "search". "It really says here how there are 2,020,000 search results for Huey Lewis! This first result says 'Huey Lewis and The News - Front Page'. That second result says, 'Huey Lewis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'. Well, think we should check some of these out, Marty?"
"Yeah, I really don't see much harm of it," Marty replied, as he clicked on the link for the first result. "I guess the current article... well, current to this time period... is that article entitled 'The Next Best Thing to Being at the Concert'. Let's read this article!"
Calvin read the article with interest, before he said, "I guess this is just about some concert DVD that will be released. I'm still not quite sure what a DVD is. I guess it's like a CD, only it plays videos instead of just music. This sounds quite neat, if fact!"
"I notice this says www dot hln dot org up there," Marty commented. "I know HLN is a very common abbreviation for Huey Lewis and The News, and that might be there to tell us where we are on the internet. Let's go back to Google, and then check this other link. The one that's called Wikipedia. Let's check out what that one is."
"All right then," Calvin replied, as pressed the "back" button. "You know, this sounds like quite a nifty feature." After he clicked on the Huey Lewis Wikipedia link, he said, "Well, it looks likes this one is just about Huey Lewis - and not so much The News."
"I think there was another Wikipedia link for Huey Lewis and The News," Marty was quick to point out. "We can read about Huey Lewis himself first, though. I guess his real name is Huey Anthony Cregg III. Of course, I already knew that. I am coming to really love the internet. Hey, I wonder if I have a Wikipedia article, too!"
"You'd better not, Marty!" Calvin warned. "You know what Doc says about looking up your own destiny. Let's just stick to looking up information on Huey Lewis. I think we really shouldn't even be doing that, though. Let's find some other articles to read!"
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"So, what did you all do on the internet?" Calvin asked the children, as they headed out to the car. "It must be real wonderful, actually being able to look up information on anything you would like to find information about. It's such a nifty feature."
"I love playing Super Collapse," Alex replied. "I got the highest score, so far, even though Marty is getting quite close. I think Mike gave up on that game, though. It's probably because he can't accept that he's not as good as Marty and myself."
"Hey!" protested Mike. "That's not true at all! I just prefer playing Bejewelled. This game requires deduction skills, without so much the speed. I don't care for games where you have to race against time. I almost always make it to the fifth level."
"Alex may have beat me in Super Collapse," Marty Jr added, "but I really managed to beat him in Bounce Out. It's such a cute and fun game to play, you know."
"It looks like you kids have had such a lot of fun," Calvin replied, smiling. "So, what do you kids plan to do, as soon as we get to the park? You kids really enjoy playing with your hoverboards, don't you? I wish we had them around, when I was a kid."
"Can we listen to Led Zeppelin," Marty Jr asked, "after we head to the park? I want to hear the second album. I believe Heartbreaker and Living Loving Maid should be together on the CD, as they always play the songs together on the radio."
"I believe we can do that, honey," Jennifer replied, as started the car. "I agree the songs should've been placed together. You know, back in the days of when we still had cassettes and vinyl, they would actually be on opposite ends."
As Jennifer began to hover the car, Calvin thought of how much things would really change through the years. He could hardly wait for the internet to be invented.