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.
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