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by cmars232 5683 days ago
Back in '95 when my wife and I were dating, we didn't have a lol. Most of the campus was vt220s hooked up to a VAX, local chat was done with a DCL command called 'phone'. To simulate laughter we would mash random characters from the home keys. The longer the string, and the farther out from the home keys, the harder the laugh.

I don't know, I still think it's a more expressive way to laugh in a terminal.

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Not a LOL but you got a giggle out of me.