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Aside: many IRC clients would auto-append _ when registering a nick if the desired nick was already registered. Why _? Who knows.
by hunter2_ 2y ago
Aside: many IRC clients would auto-append _ when registering a nick if the desired nick was already registered. Why _? Who knows.
- Sharlin 2y agoProbably because it has no specific meaning and being almost whitespace is the easiest to mentally ignore out of the set of valid nickname characters. `-` is another candidate but a programmer used to C-like languages will likely intuitively pick `_` just because it’s valid in identifiers unlike `-`.