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It goes back way further than that - probably to the dawn of IRC or so.
by lscotte 8y ago
It goes back way further than that - probably to the dawn of IRC or so.
- pjscott 8y agoI believe it dates back to the unix talk(1) program, quite a bit earlier than IRC.
- TheCondor 8y agoIt’s from the dec terminal emulation, VT100. I think specifically when you connected to like an ansi type system with dec mode. Or something like that, the memories are fuzzy
- lscotte 8y agoThe keystroke certainly does, but I was talking about people inserting ^h and ^w in the middle of conversations, which is a bit harder to nail down, though the practice is older than the parent thought.
- mark-r 8y ago^H was backspace on teletypes, which probably dates back to the 1960's.