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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.
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 emoji.
Shift_JIS art. Shift_JIS art is artwork created from characters in the Shift JIS character set, a superset of the ASCII encoding standard intended for Japanese usage. Shift_JIS art has become popular on web-based bulletin boards, notably 2channel, and has even made its way into mainstream media and commercial advertising in Japan .
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]
Creepypastas are horror -related legends or images that have been copied and pasted around the Internet. [ 1][ 2][ 3] These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare, frighten, or discomfort readers. [ 1][ 2] The term "creepypasta" originates from "copypasta", a portmanteau of the words "copy" and ...
Lawrence Gordon Tesler (April 24, 1945 – February 16, 2020) was an American computer scientist who worked in the field of human–computer interaction. Tesler worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo! . While at PARC, Tesler's work included Smalltalk, the first dynamic object-oriented programming language, and Gypsy, the first word ...
These are the standard shortcuts: Control-Z (or ⌘ Command + Z) to undo. Control-X (or ⌘ Command + X) to cut. Control-C (or ⌘ Command + C) to copy. Control-V (or ⌘ Command + V) to paste. The IBM Common User Access (CUA) standard also uses combinations of the Insert, Del, Shift and Control keys. Early versions of Windows used the IBM ...
Hold Ctrl + ⇧ Shift and type U followed by up to eight hex digits (on main keyboard or numpad). Then release Ctrl + ⇧ Shift. Type Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + U, then type up to eight hex digits, then type ↵ Enter. In LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org and Inkscape, for example, only the second method works.