My co-workers tell me it’s either “that’s interesting,” i.e. it drew their attention; or just that they’re looking at something. For example, if I provide a link to a ticket, they’re indicating that they received the link and have clicked or will click it to look at it.
I have also seen one person use it like the Michael Jackson eating popcorn gif when using a messenger that did not support embedded images.
I far prefer it when someone refers to themselves as the parent of a pet over when someone refers to the pet as a kid.
Ideally neither, but one is less off-putting than the other, IMHO.
I still remember looking up alt codes on the character map.
I haven’t had to represent degrees in decades, but for some reason I remembered the code being 0961. According to this page it was 0176. What a classic blunder!
I fondly remember ripping off the perforated sides (apparently called tractor feeds).
That’s how I would have interpreted it, as well, but I’ve seen it used in situations where that didn’t seem fitting so I asked.