RE: Interrobang

Subject: RE: Interrobang
From: Kim Roper <kim -dot- roper -at- pixelink -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 16:27:47 -0500


Justin Ressler asked:
>
> It came up in a conversation about the etymology of the term
> "bang" for an
> exclamation point. Does anyone have any educated insight to this?

Not me. As an aside, the old-style UUCP electronic path traced by an email
message was called a "bang path". It looked something like this:

mynetwork!mybigmachine!yourbigmachine!yournetwork!you

Cheers ... Kim


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