{"id":3654,"date":"2011-03-25T02:03:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T09:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=3654"},"modified":"2011-03-25T02:03:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T09:03:38","slug":"evolution-of-my-email-signature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/25\/evolution-of-my-email-signature\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of My Email Signature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got back in touch with a co-worker when I was working at UC Berkeley&#8217;s tech support help desk and while going through past emails, I noticed that my email signatures was the same as the one I&#8217;m using today. That got me wondering when I started using it.<\/p>\n<p>I still remember when I first joined Microsoft that apparently there was a thread on dsnuts asking what my signature meant. I never saw the thread myself, since I joined the alias much later.<\/p>\n<p>Going through my email archive, I&#8217;ve found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10\/2001: ~Toland<\/li>\n<li>08\/2002: \/\/Toland<\/li>\n<li>02\/2003: \/\/Toland ^_^x<\/li>\n<li>02\/2003: \/\/Toland (^_^x)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s been variations within the variations, but mostly the name being either krunk, my full name, or all in lower-case. I&#8217;m baffled that I&#8217;ve stuck with the current one for so long. I still remember why I went with \/\/. I had seen an email from the dean of Berkeley or the college of engineering and he had signed his emails with \/Robert. I thought, I want a \/ in my signature too. Somehow I ended up with \/\/.<\/p>\n<p>As for the smiley face, I&#8217;ve been using ^_^x for as long as I can remember. They&#8217;ve shown up in emails dating back to 2001 and I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve used them in IM chats before then. But Feb 2003 was when I added the () parenthesis around it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got back in touch with a co-worker when I was working at UC Berkeley&#8217;s tech support help desk and while going through past emails, I noticed that my email signatures was the same as the one I&#8217;m using today. That got me wondering when I started using it. I still remember when I first joined &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/25\/evolution-of-my-email-signature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Evolution of My Email Signature&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[1360],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}