# Testing Symbol

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-symbol/171626>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [April 28, 2003, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-symbol/171626 "2003-04-28T07:54:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-symbol/171626/21 "2003-04-29T16:23:41Z")

</div>

Yeah!

Anyway, in my day we had to use good old alphanumeric characters _and we liked it_.

Kids of today.

pan

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-symbol/171626/22 "2003-04-30T21:47:40Z")

</div>

And for the record, **ultrafilter** , I for one am not a geek. I’m a **nerd** , and proud of it.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-symbol/171626.md?page=1)