Posted by Chris Ridd on 11/16/79 11:36

On 4/1/06 6:18, in article michelle-925D54.11180404012006@news.west.cox.net,
"Michelle Steiner" <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> 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

Did it? I can only remember slashes being used for italics, and I've been on
the net for quite a while now. It doesn't matter much really just as long as
we don't use <i>something else</i> ;-)

Cheers,

Chris

[Back to original message]