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  2. Friendster - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendster

    The name Friendster is a portmanteau of "friend" and Napster. Napster at the time was a controversial peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service that was launched in 1999; by 2000, "Napster" was practically a household name, thanks to several high-profile lawsuits filed against it that year. The original Friendster site was founded in Mountain ...

  3. Zalgo text - Wikipedia

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    Zalgo text. Zalgo text, also known as cursed text or glitch text due to the nature of its use, is digital text that has been modified with numerous combining characters, Unicode symbols used to add diacritics above or below letters, to appear frightening or glitchy . Named for a 2004 Internet creepypasta story that ascribes it to the influence ...

  4. Create your own 'Star Wars' crawls, sonnets and Yoda speeches

    www.engadget.com/2015-09-05-star-wars-crawl-and...

    There's also a Sonnet Generator that crafts Shakespearean Star Wars poetry from just a few questions. And yes, everyone's favorite centuries-old Jedi gets his due: plug text into the Yoda-Speak ...

  5. ClearType - Wikipedia

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    Appearance. ClearType is Microsoft's implementation of subpixel rendering technology in rendering text in a font system. ClearType attempts to improve the appearance of text on certain types of computer display screens by sacrificing color fidelity for additional intensity variation.

  6. A computer program that can replicate your handwriting - Engadget

    www.engadget.com/2016-08-12-a-computer-program...

    A custom algorithm is able to scan what you've written on a piece of paper and then reproduce your style, to an impressive degree, using whatever words you wish. To capture your scrawl, the team ...

  7. This app lets you send messages right to your friends' lock ...

    www.engadget.com/2015-02-10-locket-screenpop.html

    ScreenPop is clearly an evolved form of Locket's original concept, which involved paying you for viewing ads on your lock screen, but it also taps into our current love affair with messaging apps ...

  8. Full-screen writing program - Wikipedia

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    Full-screen writing program. [1] In computing, a full-screen writing program [2] or distraction-free editor [3] [4] [5] is a text editor that occupies the full display with the purpose of isolating the writer from the operating system (OS) and other applications. In this way, one should be able to focus on the writing alone, with no ...

  9. List of text-based computer games - Wikipedia

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    The following list of text-based games is not to be considered an authoritative, comprehensive listing of all such games; rather, it is intended to represent a wide range of game styles and genres presented using the text mode display and their evolution across a long period.