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 |