using le maymay arrows out of le 9gag and le reddit lel
Errrm. ">" is used for quoting since forever, before 9gag and such was even planned. If anything, it was probably 4chan / 2channel that spread the "quoting the situation, not the person" fad. You can also try to find a living FIDO user to ask him if it was the same in the praintraenet era.
Errrm. ">" is used for quoting since forever, before 9gag and such was even planned. If anything, it was probably 4chan / 2channel that spread the "quoting the situation, not the person" fad. You can also try to find a living FIDO user to ask him if it was the same in the praintraenet era.
2channel first, then 4chan when it started out with the vanilla Futaba imageboard. In the west, it's called "greentext" (because of the default Futaba colour scheme). No idea what they call it on 2channel
2channel first, then 4chan when it started out with the vanilla Futaba imageboard. In the west, it's called "greentext" (because of the default Futaba colour scheme). No idea what they call it on 2channel
>2channel first
The use of greater-than symbol, ">", as a method of quoting can be traced back to at least a short time after the invention of e-mail. It was and is used in newsgroups as well. I find it to be quite venerable.
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