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

163 points · 89 comments · zdw

  1. gus_massa · · 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. fasola · · focus · HN ↗
      ??? This isn’t on the linked page.
      1. gus_massa · · focus · HN ↗
        Wrong thread. The correct one is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49767371">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49767371
        1. dmd · · focus · HN ↗
          How does that even happen? HN software hiccup? Or what?
          1. gus_massa · · focus · HN ↗
            Probably my bad.

            I guess:

            Click on the HN discussion &gt; Click on the article &gt; Notice the weird CMS error &gt; Copy the sentense &gt; Click back &gt; Click back again by mistake(?) &gt; Click on the discussion of the wrong article (?) &gt; Paste the sentence &gt; Notice that HN eat the emoji &gt; Add the version in brackets.

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