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===Early interest=== In 1965, [[Richard Isbell]] created the [[Americana (typeface)|Americana]] typeface for [[American Type Founders]] and included the interrobang as one of the characters.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Houston |first1=Keith |title=Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, & Other Typographical Marks |date=2013 |publisher=W. W. Norton |location=New York |page=29}}</ref> In 1968, an interrobang key was available on some [[Remington Rand|Remington]] [[typewriter]]s. In the 1970s, replacement interrobang keycaps and [[typeface]]s were available for some [[Smith-Corona]] typewriters.<ref>[http://sites.google.com/site/rpforwarded/Home/interrobang1.jpg Smith-Corona flyer illustrating the Changeable Type system with an exclamation mark / interrobang unit] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326214527/http://sites.google.com/site/rpforwarded/Home/interrobang1.jpg |date=March 26, 2009 }} Accessed March 7, 2009.</ref> The interrobang was in vogue for much of the 1960s; the word ''interrobang'' appeared in some dictionaries, and the mark was used in magazine and newspaper articles.<ref name=fonthaus />
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