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Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side

27 pointsby 22h agounsung.aresluna.org
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44m agoHN ↗

You turned it sideways. Using a colon, a dash, and a parenthesis character in series, you could make a sideways smile or frown. It looked like this: [happy-face] or [sad-face]

Did the editor repace :) with [happy-face]?

7m agoHN ↗

Maybe the author uses a CMS that's supposed to replace tags like [happy-face] with an emoji, but something broke?

13m agoHN ↗

No amount of drooling over Apple keyboards will make me forget that Apple's designers didn't add keys for basic functions such as Copy and Paste, Undo and Redo.