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Please don't use code blocks to quote. Use `>` meme arrows instead.

• icebraining 10y ago
  They were quote characters in email before they were used in memes :) http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/email-style.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/email-style.html
  • TeMPOraL 10y ago
    It's like the character '#' now often gets called "hashtag"... Is there a word to describe the situation when a thing gets called in a new way, because the new dominant generation is too young to remember how that thing came to be?
    • greggyb 10y ago
      Yeah, bring back "octothorpe"!
• awfgylbcxhrey 10y ago
  Back when I first came to HN, comment quotes were usually in italics, and pre-formatted blocks have been used for all sorts of (ab)uses. I came back recently and now everyone seems to think this is Reddit or 4chan.