Where and when did we get the impression that TYPING IN CAPS LOCK IS YELLING? Where did this notion first come from?
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Egao No Genki
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In the early days of the internet, the most common form of communication was through email or through the USENET (newsgroups). At this point, everything was on a terminal running on a mainframe type computer, and there were no graphical programs to include italics, bold, or other emphasis to text. People began assigning meaning to certain characters or customs. One could use asterisks as *emphasis*, for example. Given this, it is obvious how all caps came to be seen as shouting. It is effectively an extreme form of bolding in a text-only system. Research has also shown that uppercase is harder to read than lowercase, so the effect of using all caps is that it "hurts" your eyes a little to read it, just as shouting "hurts" your ears.
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THE LITTLE VOICE IN MY HEAD IS SPEAKING IN A NORMAL TONE AND VOLUME WHILE I TYPE THIS. YET WHEN I READ IT ON THE SCREEN THE LITTLE VOICE IN MY HEAD IS YELLING AT ME! PRETTY WEIRD! INTERESTING . . . SO WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM YOUR LITTLE VOICE AS YOU READ THIS? YELLING, NORMAL VOICE, OR SOMETHING ELSE?
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