[Cialug] OT: grins and nostalgia (was Re: USB sensors)

[Nathan Stien]

On Jan 18, 2008 10:17 AM, Morris Dovey <mrdovey at iedu.com> wrote:
> I think you may be reading my mind. <vbg>

It seems like the mass market internet kind of killed "<g>" notation.
I picked it up from BBS culture in the 90's, but my computing
experience only really began in the mid 90's.  Emoticons, LOL, and
other such pleb constructs took over via America Online (as far as I
can tell).  I held out for a while in those days, but eventually I had
to explain "<g>" to too many people and I caved.

It also took a while to stop trying to use ctrl-g to make someone's
console beep.  <g>

I also seem to remember saying that things were "k-rad" or "|<-rad".

Wonderfully, the ICQ instant messenger software (smells like 1997 to
me) used to support ^g as a throwback for old-timers, in those heady
days of downloading poorly transcribed .mid files from animated
GIF-laden geocities pages...  But maybe that was just me.  <g>

Does anyone else here remember "<g>" fondly?  Is there perhaps some
previous construct a relative whippersnapper like me wouldn't even
know about?