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Posted by Michelle Steiner on 10/11/84 11:36
In article <BFE185E5.140A08%chrisridd@mac.com>,
Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if Michelle was referring to an old typewriter
> practice of using underlines because italic characters weren't
> available.
Bingo! And that carried over to text-based electronics messaging. But
because true underlining is not available in such a media, the accepted
practice became to _precede and follow text with an underline character
like this_ to represent underlined text.
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