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|  #1 Posted on 16.5.02 2121.00 | Okay, I've been wondering about this for a while, so I hope someone can help me out.
I was wondering about the origin of the ALLCAPS~! punctuation. What does it mean? Who started it? Does it mean anything other than really really important?
Help?
Ike
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| #2 Posted on 16.5.02 2340.25 |
I suspect it dates back to the days of Usenet and the restrictions of 7-bit ascii.
With no pretty HTML or faux-HTML tags to use to make with the bold and the underline and the pretty colors and the hey-hey, you have to find a distinctive way to emphasize.
I actually seem to recall something about l33tsp34k being the origin of the tildebang, but that's just heresy at this point (although I'd find it fitting that the IWC took a page out of the book of B1FF~!).
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|  #3 Posted on 17.5.02 0257.44 | DEAN~! invented it. His fingers were really FAT back then, so when he got excited, he'd hit both buttons unwittingly.
(I may have made up the second part.)
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| #4 Posted on 17.5.02 1053.06 | Instant Rating: 8.21 |
Originally posted by CRZ
DEAN~! invented it. His fingers were really FAT back then, so when he got excited, he'd hit both buttons unwittingly.
(I may have made up the second part.)
Which part did you make up? DEAN getting excited?
And of course, DEAN invented it. He invented almost everything!
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| #5 Posted on 17.5.02 1114.44 | Instant Rating: 8.18 |
I thought Al Gore invented it.
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform;
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
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| #6 Posted on 17.5.02 1200.00 |
Originally posted by CRZ
DEAN~! invented it. His fingers were really FAT back then, so when he got excited, he'd hit both buttons unwittingly.
(I may have made up the second part.)
What do you mean back then? I have known him for awhile and his fingers ain't getting any smaller...
Wow...
That doesn't read terribly well.
Anyway - Chris is pretty close. Dean went to hit the exclamation point one day, missed and hit the tilde instead. He really liked the way it looked and it stuck.
Now it is mainly used (at least by us) in the sarcastic sense, like TAZZ~!
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| #7 Posted on 17.5.02 1401.24 | All I know is, I'm not "feeling the tildebang" as much as Dean -- our Men-Tor, your honor -- seems to have felt~!
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| #8 Posted on 17.5.02 1409.38 |
I searched google far and wide to try to find the use of tildebang outside the IWC, but could find nothing but a Mac-fanatic who likes to torment the (former?) publicist of Ambrosia Software by calling him Jason WHONG~!
Given that buddy with the site has a picture of himself on the web with a viking hat on, it's very, very possible he reads the IWC. In fact, his writing style seems to have taken more than a page or two from Dean.
In closing, I was way wrong. All hail DEAN~! Innovator of Punctuation.
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| #9 Posted on 19.5.02 1949.34 | Instant Rating: 9.85 | My fingers and everything else is MUCH fatter now than when I started annoying the world with what RIPPA~! was talking about.
DEAN.
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| #10 Posted on 20.5.02 0010.22 | That picture you posted of yourself, on the old EZBoard, of you eating chicken STILL haunts me to this day.
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| #11 Posted on 20.5.02 1637.21 | Instant Rating: 0.00 |
Originally posted by pieman
And of course, DEAN invented it. He invented almost everything!
Not a day goes by that I don't thank Dean for inventing zinc.
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| #12 Posted on 20.5.02 1705.47 | Instant Rating: 9.85 |
Originally posted by Papercuts!
Originally posted by pieman
And of course, DEAN invented it. He invented almost everything!
Not a day goes by that I don't thank Dean for inventing zinc.
DR: I INVENTED NOVA! YES!
DEAN.
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