I had the idea of the Tjepkema web site a few years back, when my children were still quite small but already showed an interest in the Internet and computer related matters.
The central idea was that I wanted to have a platform from where they could access all the information that they needed in a guided way.
Then I thought I could widen the site's goal and include the children's friends etc. Retrospectivaly it was a way of creating a social network as they are called today.
Parental control systems were already available, but in Europe they did not fulfill my needs or fears about the content children migt stumble upon by mistake. One example that was an eye opener was the day my daughter looked up the sentence "petit chat sans poils" in google images. Luckily nothing unpleasent came up. but it made me think ....
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