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People were already using the @ notation in their code comments, so it seemed like the logical way to offer additional functionality without anyone changing the

• thwarted 16y ago
  Of course, github is just making work the things that people were already doing. But ~user predates twitter even for referring to users.
  • pjhyett 16y ago
    No disagreement there: http://github.com/~pjhyett http://github.com/~pjhyett (That's legacy from the earliest days of github and I can't promise it'll be around forever, but it still makes me smile being able to do it)
    • thwarted 16y ago
      It's "legacy" Apache mod_userdir. :) I think nsca used it by default before that and inherited it from the shell expansions.