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Oracle Tips by Burleson |
Web Stalkers
Chapter 2 -
Understanding Web Personalities
Safety
in a Text-only World
Incidentally,
"Arial" is not a mono-spaced font, but I'm sure you won't want facts
to get in the way of your "argument".
Look [poo]-for-brains most folks, except
blowhards like you, don't use BOLD and ITALIC except for emphasis. I
guess you didn't learn that in school.
So, how does one communicate effectively in a
text-only world? Users need some method to communicate emotion.
The World’s First Emoticon
The founding fathers of the Internet decided to
use special characters to indicate simple emotions. For Internet
history buffs, the following is the very first bulletin board
message that proposes the use of symbols to indicate jokes in 1982:
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19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman
:-)
From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman
at Cmu-20c>
I propose that the following character sequence
for joke markers:
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