10 examples of emoticons possible on the PLATO system, such as a smiling imp with horns made by combining a capital Y, a lowercase O and a superscript U

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1. m;bluelander (matt@cybre.space)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 16:20:28 UTC m;bluelander

   Huh. Today I learned there was a whole separate category of ASCII art possible on PLATO, because the system supported backing the cursor up and drawing letters *on top of* other letters

   People were sending these to each other a decade before the infamous "joke markers" BBS post http://www.platohistory.org/blog/2012/09/plato-emoticons-revisited.html