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I didn’t know the interrobang has existed for so long.
If I had a nickel for every time I saw an interrobang today I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird it's happened twice right?
Is it really that rare‽
Three in one day‽
I'm seeing double here! 4 interrobangs!
I got that reference
I kind of thought the opposite. I had assumed it was actually just an older thing but fell out of fashion, but apparently it was "invented" in the 60s which surprises me
Not on Typewriters until 1968 but this article was published on October 16, 1918.
what would have stopped you from typing an exclamation point, cycling back one character, and then adding a question mark‽
Does it surprise and excite you ?!
Looks like a misshapen question mark to me. Looking at the "f"s it seems like the ink is bleeding/smudging in parts
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