> discovering the "Insert Special Character" feature along the way (that I hoped would contain :smiley:) Heh, back then, "special characters" meant "characters

> discovering the "Insert Special Character" feature along the way (that I hoped would contain :smiley:) Heh, back then, "special characters" meant "characters you get in languages that aren't English but still use a mostly Latin alphabet". The characters in the screenshot look pretty much like the high-bit-set portion of ISO-8859-1. If you wanted the Forrest Gump smiley face, then you had to use Wingdings.