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ASCII for 'The finger'.

The Finger has many meanings and is used in all social settings. As a quick and convenient means of communication, the Finger can be a substitute for a multitude of responses. This simple gesture means anything from "stop taking my picture" or "learn how to drive or I will run you over next time" to "Hi mom, I'm on live television, behind a beat reporter, making you wish I was never born".

The meaning intended usually relates in some manner to an action or dialog from some outside source. In most cases, a person who receives a Finger, either knows the meaning, based on something they have done, or is a blind, stupid, idiot who should be shot into deep space without a spaceship.

The most common excepted meaning of the Finger is “fuck you” ( See fuck you ).

Background: Until the early 1990s, there was no way to communicate 'the Finger' through ASCII. This changed when Slayer invented the MinusZeroEquals symbol to communicate his opinion of most of the users to most of the users of Inferno BBS.

The history of the Finger is hotly debated, but it all comes down to “we don’t know where the hell it came from”. And anybody who says different is full of shit. The history of MinusZeroEquals on the other hand is debated only because I don’t remember the year I invented it. And anyone who says they saw/did/know of it first: -0=
<anyone>: Hi Damage.
D'Amage: -0=
-0= by D'Amage January 14, 2005
halo smilie, looks like a regular smilie but with the person smiling having a halo floating over their head.
0=] by Leo N. February 18, 2005
ASCII for 'The finger'.

The most common excepted meaning of the Finger is “fuck you” ( See 'fuck you' ).

But, this simple gesture means anything from "stop taking my picture" or "learn how to drive or I will run you over next time" to "Hi mom, I'm on live television, behind a beat reporter, making you wish I was never born".
me: urbandictionary.com screwed up my original definition from 2005 and now I have to do it again.
urbandictionary.com: oops
me: -0= urbandictionary.com. this one is better anyways.
-0= by Major D'Amage October 11, 2021

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WHY ARE THERE NO DEFINITIONS FOR THIS IM SO CONFUSED WHAT?!?!?!?!
132457689-0= is somehow a word that hopefully only has this definition
132457689-0= by imphsycotic May 8, 2023

1!¡2"@3#£4¤$5%€6&7/{8[9)]0=}+?\´`±qwertyuiop¨`~asdfghjkl'*<>|zxcvbnm,.:-_ 

im so bored i wrote 1!¡2"@3#£4¤$5%€6&7/{89)0=}+?\´`±qwertyuiop¨`~asdfghjkl'*<>|zxcvbnm,.:-_ in urban dictionary

`qaz1wsx2edc3rfv4tgb5yhn6ujm7ik,8ol.9p;/0['-]=\ 

If you have found this then you are bored in school with a chromebook.
"`qaz1wsx2edc3rfv4tgb5yhn6ujm7ik,8ol.9p;/0'-=\!"