I was thinking the same thing. I remember using grins on the Micronetworked Apple User's Group back in the early eighties. Furthermore, a smile and a grin aren't the same thing. A smile is a bit of warmth at the end of a thought. A grin means, "Don't take me seriously." Paul Stenquist
Doug Franklin wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:16:26 -0500, T Rittenhouse wrote: > > > I think grins are kind of idiosyncratic. I use: <g> = "little tiny grin", > > <grin> = "grin", <GRIN> = "great big grin", and sometimes <chuckle> = "light > > chuckling". Smiley faces :) are kind of outdated amongst serious internet > > users and tend to indicate someone who isn't quite with it. > > Your comment about smiley faces is kinda ironic to me. We were using > abbreviations in angle brackets (like <g>) on electronic BBS's long > before the average computer user had access to the Internet. > > TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
