# wHaT's Up WiTh ThIs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 24, 2000, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this/10952 "2000-04-24T06:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this/10952/1 "2000-04-24T06:00:00Z")
wHaT’s Up WiTh ThIs? I have seen this style of typing on the net, use to see ALOT of it on AOL. Is it just sillieness, or does it mean something I’m too old to understand. ☹ Or are there just alot of broken cap locks out there? * * * “I know that life is unfair, I just wish it were unfair in my favor” Calvin & Hobbes ---
**Author:** ![Strider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Strider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strider)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this/10952/2 "2000-04-24T06:12:00Z")
WooHoo, first one to post, if I am quick enough. Anyway… I have some friends that type with this exact style of writing, they also use symbols instead of letters, like: //@$$| |P!!!, or wassup for those of you who are not trained. Anyway, I find that this is only done by teenagers, and asian ones usually. Style I guess, though not the kinda of style I find exceptable. -N * * * “Strider…I must also confess that you’re one of the nicest atheists I’ve met.” ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this/10952/3 "2000-04-24T07:09:00Z")
It’s an online equivalent of grafitti and it’s done by the same kind of people who would do grafitti offline, plus hackers and hacker wannabes think it’s “kewl” for some unknown reason. I have enough trouble typing without tying to DecIdE wHIcH LeTterS To CaP. Although those oh-so-clever hacker wannabes probably have some macro to do it for them. They’re oh-so-clever. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this/10952/4 "2000-04-24T13:20:00Z")
I just figured they were German. I’m half German. I can NEVER figure out where to place my capitol letters. That whole Nature VS Nurture thing raises it’s ugly head again… ``` Cartooniverse ``` * * * If you want to kiss the sky, you’d better learn how to kneel. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this/10952/5 "2000-04-24T13:22:00Z")
Sorry, that should be “capital letters”, right? Now, I’m all ferschtummelled. I need to lie down. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-this/10952/6 "2000-04-24T13:37:00Z")
I was somewhere recently (was it here? Probably not) and some dickhead wrote all his 'M’s like this: (/) And all his 'W’s like this: \/ Drove me fucking nuts. ## (to use the vernacular) [The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - **Shadow of the Pigeon** - Weirdo of the Night