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Timeline for Origin of @name convention

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Dec 16, 2015 at 17:54 history edited Matt E. Эллен CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 16, 2014 at 8:07 comment added Hugo @tchrist: From now on, I'm going to start reading these @s as Os in my head :) Maybe I'll make a Chrome extension to replace them (with an optional "(how mighty are your thunderbolts)").
Jan 16, 2014 at 8:05 comment added Hugo @AtilaTini: It's not just a programmer thing. You used it twice in your answer as a style thing to address different people. No programming parsed it as anything special special in your answer. Plenty of non-programmers now use it everyday.
Jan 16, 2014 at 4:02 comment added tchrist It’s the vocative particle, like how in “O Zeus, how mighty are your thunderbolts”, the “O” is the vocative particle. We now use @Zeus instead for the same thing: to summon his attention in our hubris. Apparently Irish does the same thing with an A instead of an O, and an @ is a stylized A. Still vocative.
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Jan 16, 2014 at 2:52 history answered Atila Tini CC BY-SA 3.0