somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 6/13/02 8:14 PM, the entity known
as Victor Rehorst transmitted the following from victor_at_newtontalk.net:
>
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Bryce Lynch wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Prabhakar Ragde wrote:
>>
>>>> ALL CAPS means shouting.
>>> Surely this is recent convention. Telegrams used to be all caps. So
>>> did the first computers I used, via teletypes and then dumb terminals.
>>
>> It's been social convention since my BBS days (1994 or 1995).. it's been
>> around a while.
>
> Heck, it's been a convention since *my* BBS days (1989... although I'm
> sure some others have been around even longer...)
It's been a convention since I first got on USENET, circa 1982.
- Eric.
--Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
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