Reading these BBS always makes me think how much nerdier computer people were back then than they are now. Or am I off base?
There was a strong selection effect at the time.
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We're not even close to past that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women%27s_magazines https://m.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes It's still acceptable to categorize clothing stores by sex as well.
"The new fragrance, for her" "Manpurse" (as in, saying "purse" implies "woman") Razors for men and for women, exactly the same thing but one is pink, one is blue Bicycles for women with different frames (because they always wear skirts, y'know) Running shoes for women (pink) and men (blue) I could go on...
> Bicycles for women with different frames
This one in particular I never quite grasped. I mean, there've been a couple times, when I stopped short and came off the seat and pedals, that I really wished, in an extremely immediate and visceral fashion, that my bike's top tube wasn't quite where it was.
On the other hand, I suppose the "women's bike" design probably lacks something in rigidity by comparison, so I suppose there's an argument either way.
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I find that they're often too cutesy or overstated. In Whatsapp for example, they come across as incredibly flirtatious.
The winking smile should be jokey but I can only interpret it as flirty nowadays ;)
I use the winking with tongue sticking out to mean a joke... but I don't know if everyone else interprets it that way ;) (that was a flirty wink)
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#114I wonder at what point the nose was removed :)
Mid- to late nineties, to the best of my recollection.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
"The new fragrance, for her" "Manpurse" (as in, saying "purse" implies "woman") Razors for men and for women, exactly the same thing but one is pink, one is blue Bicycles for women with different frames (because they always wear skirts, y'know) Running shoes for women (pink) and men (blue) I could go on...
> Bicycles for women with different frames This one in particular I never quite grasped. I mean, there've been a couple times, when I stopped short and came off the seat and pedals, that I really wished , in an extremely immediate and visceral fashion, that my bike's top tube wasn't quite where it was. On the other hand, I suppose the "women's bike" design probably lacks something in rigidity by comparison, so I supp…
So I had heard that women's bikes were designed that way to allow room for riding in a dress.
Apparently people still do this: https://letsgorideabike.com/2012/06/04/how-to-bicycling-in-a...
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find that they're often too cutesy or overstated. In Whatsapp for example, they come across as incredibly flirtatious.
The winking smile should be jokey but I can only interpret it as flirty nowadays ;)
Since I alternate between the smile and winking smile about evenly, you're making me reconsider my past text conversations. ;)
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#117It makes me a bit of a luddite (and a heck of a curmudgeon), but it always makes me a little sad when good ol' ASCII smileys are rendered all fancy-like. There's something charming and hackerish about showing it as a 7-bit glyph. I think the Internet fundamentally changed when that happened. Tangentially-related, I can't fathom why someone would post YouTube videos of `telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl`.
My biggest problem with this is when the images auto-replacing your text emotes convey a completely different expression, and you have no control over it. Skype is the worst offender, where for example the ":3" cat-face gets replaced by an image of a whole cat, without a face at all. If you disable this "feature" in your options, it's only disabled on YOUR end. The receiving client will still convert your text into i…
Try sending a code snippet in any modern chat
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#118Nabokov's interview. The New York Times [1969] -- How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the immediate past? -- I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile -- some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question.
Which had already been used in the days of the telegraph. The first use of OMG (oh my god) and other such initialisms was 19th. C. I would imagine that includes :)
Also interesting, there is a set of telegraphic codes used to decrease the size of messages due to cost:
http://people.eku.edu/styere/Encrypt/ABC4/
Definitely has to be one of the earliest examples of electronic signal compression.
Re: Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed
#119It makes me a bit of a luddite (and a heck of a curmudgeon), but it always makes me a little sad when good ol' ASCII smileys are rendered all fancy-like. There's something charming and hackerish about showing it as a 7-bit glyph. I think the Internet fundamentally changed when that happened. Tangentially-related, I can't fathom why someone would post YouTube videos of `telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl`.
My biggest problem with this is when the images auto-replacing your text emotes convey a completely different expression, and you have no control over it. Skype is the worst offender, where for example the ":3" cat-face gets replaced by an image of a whole cat, without a face at all. If you disable this "feature" in your options, it's only disabled on YOUR end. The receiving client will still convert your text into i…
The worst is if you are trying to do a letter-indexed list of items and B) gets coverted to a guy with sunglasses.