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...)
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