an a2ker just added this symbol to a post title - what the hell does it mean?

https://media0.giphy.com/media/3osxYrIA5IjCuh3JgQ/200w.gif#5-grid1

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@centrox,

Yes, that's it! Well, more of a square, but close enough to what I am seeing on that original person's post (that I copied to talk about this).

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I think that means that the character needed to show that emoticon is not available in any font installed on your computer. If your machine is a Mac you may need to update the OS.

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@tibbleinparadise,

tibbleinparadise wrote:

Using emojis has absolutely nothing to do with being a "hipster". Emojis have been in use for a loooooooong time.

It's a joke, calm down.

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@Krumple,

Krumple wrote:

tibbleinparadise wrote:

Using emojis has absolutely nothing to do with being a "hipster". Emojis have been in use for a loooooooong time.

It's a joke, calm down.

Yes. A long time.

I think this one is 1000 years old

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/05/1412537865399_wps_43_Leiden_doodles.jpg

Signature of Bernard Hennet, Abbot of Žďár nad Sázavou Cistercian cloister, in 1741, with smiley-like drawing

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Smiley_1741_Hennet.jpg

Movie advertisement from 1953 (as gay as its hit tune! So true!)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/NYHT_Smiley_10th_March_1953.jpg

WMCA 1962 sweatshirt

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/WMCA_good_guys_sweatshirt_1962.gif

After around 1963 they really took off...

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@centrox,

centrox wrote:

Movie advertisement from 1953 (as gay as its hit tune! So true!)

That smiley-crying one says all you need to know about the movie, doesn't it? (Does anyone really cry at movies?)

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@centrox,

Thanks a lot for clearing it up, good work, no kidding. I was quite confused, then started to call that square an emoji... which was more confusing.

No OS updating for me; Apple cut a lot of us off about six years ago, ex-ing out a variety of available applications over time (bye! so long!) and I can't spring for a new or recent used mac. That's possible in the future though.
Besides, I've had my own odd fun keeping an antique mac working at all.

Good a2k folks have suggested relatively inexpensive microsoft type computers, which I worked with in the distant past, but I'm not interested in relearning that system, and while they are less expensive than macs, I can't afford them either.

All is not lost as I have stuff to sell, just have to figure how to do it (long story I won't go into).

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@ossobucotemp,

ossobucotemp wrote:

Thanks a lot for clearing it up, good work, no kidding. I was quite confused, then started to call that square an emoji... which was more confusing.

No OS updating for me; Apple cut a lot of us off about six years ago, ex-ing out a variety of available applications over time (bye! so long!) and I can't spring for a new or recent used mac. That's possible in the future though.
Besides, I've had my own odd fun keeping an antique mac working at all.

Good a2k folks have suggested relatively inexpensive microsoft type computers, which I worked with in the distant past, but I'm not interested in relearning that system, and while they are less expensive than macs, I can't afford them either.

All is not lost as I have stuff to sell, just have to figure how to do it (long story I won't go into).

The difference between Mac and windows is very little. A mild interface difference. A few button function differences and shortcut hotkey differences. That's about it. It's definitely not a major undertaking to swap from Mac to PC.

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@Krumple,

True, and the days of Mac OS vs DOS are long gone. If most of what she does is surf the net and deal with a few pics, the switch is easy.

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@Blickers,

You think she doesn't know all that?

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@ossobucotemp,

Maybe I'll give up one of these days, after which I'll become a serious pest. I still can't afford it.

I take it some a2kers are spoiled re money access.

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@centrox,

Quote:

this is how it looks on Windows 10...

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But I get it now, thanks to a good explanation by centrox, unless, gawd forbid, centrox is wrong.

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This stuff has been figured out.

I insist.

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@ossobucotemp,

i find it interesting that different operating systems display it differently...

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@Region Philbis,

Quote:

Quote:

this is how it looks on Windows 10...

and here's what I get on Windows XP...

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@Region Philbis,

and I obviously was well confused.
I'm an old hanger on; odd, though, that I saw that thingamagig in the first place, interesting (or not)..

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@Region Philbis,

Uh, what you and others have described is not what I saw.

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@Region Philbis,

Region Philbis wrote:

i find it interesting that different operating systems display it differently...

It's not the OS, it's the browser. Within Windows 10, different browsers show different representations, as I have shown. Also with different browsers in Linux.

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@ehBeth,

Universal sign for 'not'

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