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		nemo1618 on Jan 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Today my startup failed ^H is the escape sequence for the backspace character. Since the days of BBS it has been used to comedic effect in the manner you see here.

typon on Jan 21, 2014 [–]

I guess different people have different definitions of the word 'comedic'.

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