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  2. Copypasta - Wikipedia

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    The term copypasta is derived from the computer interface term "copy and paste", [1] the act of selecting a piece of text and copying it elsewhere.. Usage of the word can be traced back to an anonymous 4chan thread from 2006, [2] [3] and Merriam-Webster record it appearing on Usenet and Urban Dictionary for the first time that year.

  3. Zalgo text - Wikipedia

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    Zalgo text. Zalgo text, also known as cursed text or glitch text due to the nature of its use, is digital text that has been modified with numerous combining characters, Unicode symbols used to add diacritics above or below letters, to appear frightening or glitchy. Named for a 2004 Internet creepypasta story that ascribes it to the influence ...

  4. Larry Tesler - Wikipedia

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    Institutions. Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo! Lawrence Gordon Tesler (April 24, 1945 – February 16, 2020) was an American computer scientist who worked in the field of human–computer interaction. Tesler worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo!. While at PARC, Tesler's work included Smalltalk, the first dynamic object-oriented ...

  5. Cut, copy, and paste - Wikipedia

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    These are the standard shortcuts: Control-Z (or ⌘ Command + Z) to undo. Control-X (or ⌘ Command + X) to cut. Control-C (or ⌘ Command + C) to copy. Control-V (or ⌘ Command + V) to paste. The IBM Common User Access (CUA) standard also uses combinations of the Insert, Del, Shift and Control keys. Early versions of Windows used the IBM ...

  6. Discord - Wikipedia

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    Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform which allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media. Communication can be private or take place in virtual communities called "servers".

  7. Subscript and superscript - Wikipedia

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    The second typeface is Myriad Pro; the superscript is about 60% of the original characters, raised by about 44% above the baseline.) A subscript or superscript is a character (such as a number or letter) that is set slightly below or above the normal line of type, respectively. It is usually smaller than the rest of the text.

  8. Dissociated press - Wikipedia

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    Dissociated press is a parody generator (a computer program that generates nonsensical text). The generated text is based on another text using the Markov chain technique. The name is a play on "Associated Press" and the psychological term dissociation (although word salad is more typical of conditions like aphasia and schizophrenia – which is, however, frequently confused with dissociative ...

  9. Text editor - Wikipedia

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    Text editor. Editors like Leafpad, shown here, are often included with operating systems as a default helper application for opening text files. A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. An example of such program is " notepad " software (e.g. Windows Notepad). [1][2][3] Text editors are provided with operating systems ...