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Somewhat related to this is the ability to change 'l" and "I" around when they both look the same, basically a straight line. This was very common in Yahoo Cha
by noahc 15y ago
Somewhat related to this is the ability to change 'l" and "I" around when they both look the same, basically a straight line.
This was very common in Yahoo Chat Rooms when folks would pretend to be someone else by registering their name with the opposite of what they had (assuming it had an "i" or "l" in it).
They would then take a screen shot of their font and copy that exactly so they could appear to be the other person. I'll let you imagine the chaos that could occur because of this!
- Timothee 15y agoSomebody got me with that exact trick during the Charlie Sheen debacle: I was going back and forth between the Twitter page for @CharlieSheen and @CharIieSheen and couldn't figure out how this was possible… I didn't feel exactly smart when I realized what was going on. edit: on a related note, I half-jokingly tend to read RockMelt as rock-me-it…
- carussell 15y agoI've seen an unblinking use of "RockMeIt" before. I'm fairly sure it was here on HN.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoI have a friend whose last name is McIntire, and his handle everywhere was xmcintire. I used to have a lot of fun changing my username to xrncintire - exploiting keming to impersonate him on any non-fixed-width-font system. (name changed to protect him, he was pretty peeved that I did this - though I think he registered a few places as pavellishir to exploit the r/n similarity, too :P)
- shabble 15y agoThe original site doesn't seem to be there any more, but here's a (horribly mangled) version from the Wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20080922234800/http://www.rnicrosoft.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20080922234800/http://www.rnicros...