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you were right in that they weren't Twitter's idea, but they were community driven. @ and hashtags came from IRC and retweets (back when it was the RT....) jus
by oliyoung 9y ago
you were right in that they weren't Twitter's idea, but they were community driven.
@ and hashtags came from IRC and retweets (back when it was the RT....) just evolved
- porfirium 9y ago@ has always had another meaning in irc. People who use @ to refer to people are immediately identified as n00bs.
- nothrabannosir 9y agoI don't think it's possible to capture the essence of IRC more succinctly than your comment just did.
- Mayzie 9y agoWh3R3 pPL 74lK l13K d15?
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoNot when I was using IRC on a VAX in the first half of the 90s. We used @ and noone was a 'n00b'.
- icc97 9y agoIRC then via Chris Messina [0] edit: although disappointingly he seems to use this fact as quite a personal branding tool now [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Messina_(open-source_advocate) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Messina_(open-source_adv...