<Tr> <Th> Media type </Th> <Td> Print (Newspaper, Magazine, Hardback & Paperback) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 1 December 1951 </Td> </Tr> <P> "The Fun They Had" is a science fiction story by American writer Isaac Asimov . It first appeared in a children's newspaper in 1951 and was reprinted in the February 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, as well as the collections Earth Is Room Enough (1957), 50 Short Science Fiction Tales (1960), and The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973). It has been modified in a Finnish English book called KEY English 8 - 9 . </P> <P> Written as a personal favor for a friend, "The Fun They Had" became "probably the biggest surprise of my literary career", Asimov wrote in 1973 . He reported that it had been reprinted more than 30 times with more being planned . "Why? I don't know why ." It is about computerized home schooling, and what children miss out on by not being in school together . </P>

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