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by ruszki 25 days ago
One of my earliest memories is when I and my family draw and created black and white pictures via a word processor on our C64. There were characters which were different forms, like triangles, or small rectangles. Nowadays there are similar ones in Unicode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_Shapes_(Unicode_bloc.... As a few years old kid, that was already magical for us at that time.

One of my nieces, could find an input field on my iPhone's lock screen, and she played for quite long, just by typing emojis. Since, then my "frequent emojis" list contains a lot of hearts, unicorns, horses, and other animals. But of course, the difference compared to the old times, that our C64 was probably the only computer in the whole small village in Eastern Europe at that time, while my nieces encounter electronic devices all the time, so they will probably not remember these as starkly as I do.