fine whine

Not that I was looking, but I think I might have found the first example of the use of capitalization to indicate shouting online in a movie, in the 1997 intellectual drama Contact, based on Carl Sagan's book of the same name. I have not read the book, but I highly doubt that Carl was thinking about IM systems and 'netiquette back when he wrote it.

Anyway, in the film, Jodie Foster's character Ellie Arroway is having a real-time chat session with the cryptic billionaire John Hadden, currently floating around on Mir. She doesn't know it's him, though, and asks "Who are you?" He replies cryptically with a classified document to which he probably shouldn't have access. Confused and probably enraged, she then asks "WHO ARE YOU?"

I've been so conditioned as to immediately see the emphasis there; I can't not see it anymore. My suspicions are that this is deliberate, from somebody in the know and not just the flippant decisions of a production designer.

I am, naturally, seeking prior art, or some sort of confirmation.