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Emoticons are old internet. Emojis are boomer, normie, and corpo friendly translations.
Who is booing this man? He is completely correct
Wait, who was using "old Internet" if not boomers?
The nerds who made the tech.
Psst.. the nerds were mostly boomers...
I know my one professor used punch cards and worked on some of the data structures. But it was people who cared about how tech worked.