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The term copypasta is derived from the computer interface term "copy and paste", [ 1] the act of selecting a piece of text and copying it elsewhere. Usage of the word can be traced back to an anonymous 4chan thread from 2006, [ 2][ 3] and Merriam-Webster record it appearing on Usenet and Urban Dictionary for the first time that year. [ 1]
This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as ...
Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigrams, warning signs, and weather, among others.
An ASCII comic is a form of webcomic which uses ASCII text to create images. In place of images in a regular comic, ASCII art is used, with the text or dialog usually placed underneath. [ 10] During the 1990s, graphical browsing and variable-width fonts became increasingly popular, leading to a decline in ASCII art.
The Pistol emoji (🔫) is an emoji defined by the Unicode Consortium as depicting a "handgun" or "revolver". [ 1] It was historically displayed as a handgun on most computers (although Google once used a blunderbuss ); [ 2] as early as 2013, Microsoft chose to replace the glyph with a ray gun, [ 3] and in 2016 Apple replaced their glyph with a ...
In China, letters of the English alphabet are pronounced somewhat differently because they have been adapted to the phonetics (i.e. the syllable structure) of the Chinese language. The knowledge of this spelling may be useful when spelling Western names, especially over the phone, as one may not be understood if the letters are pronounced as ...
The integral symbol is U+222B ∫ INTEGRAL in Unicode [ 5] and \int in LaTeX. In HTML, it is written as ∫ ( hexadecimal ), ∫ ( decimal) and ∫ ( named entity ). The original IBM PC code page 437 character set included a couple of characters ⌠ and ⌡ (codes 244 and 245 respectively) to build the integral symbol.
A Texas woman who was a civilian employee of the U.S. Army at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for stealing nearly $109 million from a youth development ...