Posted by Michelle Steiner on 11/04/71 11:36

In article <BFE1CBFF.1412EA%chrisridd@mac.com>,
Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> wrote:

> > 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> ;-)

I've been online (local BBS systems, Fidonet, Compuserve, etc.) since
1984, and on the internet since 1990; it hasn't been until very recently
that I've seen anyone use slashes to represent italics.

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