Emoticons

a_kelley

a_kelley

mechanical fixer
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<rant>
Who came up with the brilliant idea to substitute GIF graphics for a relic of computer history, the emoticon?

They actually started life as ASCII "graphics" like
Code: 
:)
Quite irritating to me that vBulletin automagically converts these, as I grew up in Linux and console... I prefer fewer images.. yeah so what you can't get the steaming pile emoticon, etc etc, but I, myself, enjoy the antiquity of the plain old text, with your imagination. There. My cell phone does the same stupid thing, forcing me to select the normal expressions. </rant>
 
a_kelley said:
<rant>
Who came up with the brilliant idea to substitute GIF graphics for a relic of computer history, the emoticon?

They actually started life as ASCII "graphics" like
Code: 
:)
Quite irritating to me that vBulletin automagically converts these, as I grew up in Linux and console... I prefer fewer images.. yeah so what you can't get the steaming pile emoticon, etc etc, but I, myself, enjoy the antiquity of the plain old text, with your imagination. There. My cell phone does the same stupid thing, forcing me to select the normal expressions. </rant>
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Whatever you say dude,us commoners w have to wait for the cliff notes.
 
a_kelley said:
<rant>
Who came up with the brilliant idea to substitute GIF graphics for a relic of computer history, the emoticon?

They actually started life as ASCII "graphics" like
Code: 
:)
Quite irritating to me that vBulletin automagically converts these, as I grew up in Linux and console... I prefer fewer images.. yeah so what you can't get the steaming pile emoticon, etc etc, but I, myself, enjoy the antiquity of the plain old text, with your imagination. There. My cell phone does the same stupid thing, forcing me to select the normal expressions. </rant>
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lmao

if you cant have lynx, use this. Textised! : NC4x4
 
1-tonmudder said:
Whatever you say dude,us commoners w have to wait for the cliff notes.
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Basically, way back in the day (late 80's, early 90's), most everything was simply just text, with bulletin board systems that would seem archaic today (think forum by email, or actually back then you would dial your modem to the Bulletin Board Server). Speeds were low, starting at 300 bits per second and eventually moving to 57.6k around late 90's (but by then the internet had come into the picture and evolved much). So like the graphical emoticons of today, people used text based representations of "smileys" using only text. I like simplicity and the picture conversion of text smileys drive me nutty. I also hate using a mouse. Keyboard shortcuts FTW
 
Agree on keyboard shortcuts. I've met people who can draw just about anything in Autocad extremely fast, using just the keyboard. I also work with a bunch of controls engineers: CTRL+C, CTRL+V, done!
 
jeepinmatt said:
Agree on keyboard shortcuts. I've met people who can draw just about anything in Autocad extremely fast, using just the keyboard. I also work with a bunch of controls engineers: CTRL+C, CTRL+V, done!
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I still use Alt-Tab to flip between windows. Relic from the old days before having a task bar. Seems younger folks don't even know about that or why you would need such a thing. Probably my favorite keystroke.
Yeah, mice are slow, especially now that everything is on a giant monitor. By definition it's a serial process to get around. Parallel ftw.
 
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