The Old Man of the Internet Humor
You kids today.
You think the internet has always just been there.
You think IM on a phone is a standard option.
You think video has always been a download away. And you haven’t a clue what ^H^H^H^H^H^H means, anyway.
I pity you.
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11. October 2007 at 09:43
Heh. I still use ^H^H^H^H^H^H on occasion… and every time I do, I have to wonder if the person/people reading it will understand.
Thanks, Augie, for making me feel old.
11. October 2007 at 21:23
…. nope, no idea on that last one. Short pause whilst googling…. ” “Another short pause after giving up on google and trying yahoo. yet another short pause in order to regain consciousness after yahoo found it on the first try
Hehehehe. That’s great. I may have to use that now.
22. October 2007 at 14:05
Dude.
You know I’ve been on the internet, the World Wide Web, since 1996.
What the heck does ^H^H^H^HHH^H^^H mean?
CJA
22. October 2007 at 16:02
Back in the old days (when all we had was Telnet, FTP and Gopher and we LIKED it — we also walked to school barefoot in the snow uphill both ways), many terminals used the keystroke CTRL-H to backspace. However, if CTRL-H wasn’t mapped to the backspace, ^H would be displayed.
This led to humor where a “mistake” was made intentionally, such as
“Man, I hope my ex-wife chokes on^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Henjoys my alimony payment.”
For every character that was supposed to be “deleted”, ^H was printed instead. Much like using the del or strike tag in HTML pages, the “unintended” word is still displayed alongside the “correct” replacement word.