Describe what it is
This is a list of the different pictographs one can make on the computer which can often be turned into ideograms. the one that's highlighted is the ♥ which is done by pressing alt + 3 on the number pad. The heart is an ideogram used for valentines day for love, heart, a cute decoration or anything related. This was found on the Yahoo Answers pages.
I was attracted to this because I like making more than a basic <3 heart and learning new ways to express my ideas on the computer is always fun. This relates to our readings because we were once limited to how we could relate on the computer. The computer languages have evolved similarly to the basics of written communication. While they already had a written way to express what meant what, and the human speech was already developed, the basics of the computer language was through binary. The display of 0's and 1's would indicate different things for the computer to understand. Eventually the programing language could be shorthanded, making it easier to display text and images. Alt + 3 is a shorthand so that the ♥ is displayed.
This is, not exact but, similar to the long pictographic images that get short handed to just a few scratches that have become the modern alphabet.
Describe its function
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