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I believe he means "the use of asterisks to mark required fields" was invented for the web. Otherwise, you'd have to be quite young and quite sheltered to not h
by annowiki 4y ago
I believe he means "the use of asterisks to mark required fields" was invented for the web. Otherwise, you'd have to be quite young and quite sheltered to not have seen asterisks in places older than the web.
- Izkata 4y agoExcept I've seen the same on paper forms plenty of times in the past, they point at a footnote saying "Required".
- rocketbop 4y agoIt's hardly the same thing. A footnote is used for any relevant information that doesn't belong for whatever reason in the body of the text. That it could say "Required" seems neither here nor there.
- marcosdumay 4y ago> A footnote is used for any relevant information Yes, and the one on paper forms almost always was used for "required". Besides, when it didn't, normally there were many of them, so they were numbered instead of an asterisk. The asterisk itself was all but reserved for "required".