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Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side

163 points · 89 comments · zdw

gus_massa · 1789915643 · focus · HN ↗
> You turned it sideways. Using a colon, a dash, and a parenthesis character in series, you could make a sideways smile or frown. It looked like this: [happy-face] or [sad-face]
Did the editor repace :) with [happy-face]?
1. Cockbrand · 1789917829 · focus · HN ↗
  Maybe the author uses a CMS that's supposed to replace tags like [happy-face] with an emoji, but something broke?
2. fasola · 1789918257 · focus · HN ↗
  ??? This isn’t on the linked page.
  1. gus_massa · 1789941025 · focus · HN ↗
    Wrong thread. The correct one is <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49767371">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49767371
    dmd · 1789947498 · focus · HN ↗
    How does that even happen? HN software hiccup? Or what?
    gus_massa · 1789949023 · focus · HN ↗
    Probably my bad.
    I guess:
    Click on the HN discussion > Click on the article > Notice the weird CMS error > Copy the sentense > Click back > Click back again by mistake(?) > Click on the discussion of the wrong article (?) > Paste the sentence > Notice that HN eat the emoji > Add the version in brackets.

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