Re: [NTLK] ALL CAPS

From: Jesse Garnier (jgarnier_at_mac.com)
Date: Thu Jun 13 2002 - 20:51:36 EDT

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Heh, apparently mixed-case goes back quite a ways before 1993... Say,
perhaps, the 15th century? ;)

http://linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/archive-most-recent/msg03087.html

(I realize this is a bit off-topic or off-point, but hey, a little history
never hurt.)

--Jesse

Peter Cameron wrote not long ago (6/13/02 4:24 PM):

> on 6/13/02 3:09 PM, Prabhakar Ragde at plragde_at_plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca 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.
>
> Not exactly new. From the chapter on email in the 1993 edition of The
> Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog:

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