Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
From Brock Kevin Nambo <new...@earthling.net>
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· 13 Jan 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Larry Krakauer wrote in message <34B...@kronos.com>... >I believe the punctuation was called an "Interrobang", and >it looked like a question mark with the central vertical bar >extended upward. In effect, it was what you described, a ! >superimposed over a ?. If I recall, it was introduced with an >expensive advertising campaign by some ad agency. Although it >never really caught on, the word still seems to be in use; >a search in Alta Vista on "Interrobang" found 108 hits. Well... Ok. My dictionary called it an "interbang" while I was browsing through it one day looking for something or other... And if web searches are evidence, AltaVista found interbang 680 times on uh, about 268 pages. ;) >>BKNambo -- http://come.to/brocks.place | World Domination Through Trivia! oah123 (in chatquiz, 12/27/97): "did you guys know during the SPIN cycle the clothes are like being spun really fast? LOL i just found that out!"
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