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The printing technology affected the style of writing.

For example, there were alphanumeric contractions which are actually precursors to " leet-speak ".

( A well-known example is the " initials " used by Forrest J. Ackerman in his fanzines from the 30s and 40s, namely " 4sj ".

Fans around the world knew Ackerman by three letters " 4sj " or even two: " 4e " for " Forry.

") Fanspeak is rich with abbreviations and concatenations.

Where teenagers labored to save typing on ditto masters, they now save keystrokes when text messaging.

Ackerman invented nonstoparagraphing as a space-saving measure.

When the typist comes to the end of a paragraph, they simply moved the platen down one line.