brachypelmasmithi@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agoHow did marking corrections with the astrisk originate?message-squaremessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up156arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up154arrow-down1message-squareHow did marking corrections with the astrisk originate?brachypelmasmithi@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months agoI can tell you that it dates at least as far back as IRC and AIM in the 90’s
minus-squareneidu2@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-22 months agoI remember this too, but in the nerdier channels we used regex notation instead. s/nerdier/coolest/
minus-squareMaeve@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoI don’t remember * being used on IRC, mainly because it denoted other things. I’m not saying it wasn’t used, merely I remember the latter. Wasn’t aware that was regex, used it in bash.
I can tell you that it dates at least as far back as IRC and AIM in the 90’s
I remember this too, but in the nerdier channels we used regex notation instead.
s/nerdier/coolest/
I don’t remember * being used on IRC, mainly because it denoted other things. I’m not saying it wasn’t used, merely I remember the latter. Wasn’t aware that was regex, used it in bash.