Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
From Steve Barnard <ste...@megafauna.com>
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· 10 Jan 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Veronica Karlsson wrote: > > Sam Brookes wrote: > > > > In article <696gls$p0...@clarknet.clark.net>, Premise Checker > > <che...@clark.net> writes > > snip > > > > > Also, what's the name of "@"? > > > > big snip > > > > As I have seen it used "@" simply means "at". > > The story I heard is that it _is_ the word "at". After being written > many many times (don't remember why, I think it had something to do with > prices) the "t" curled up around the "a" until it became a symbol of its > own. It's also used as the 'copyright' symbol in some computer source code. BTW, computers programmers have a pithy expression for putting copyright notices in their files. They call it "pissing on the code." It's like a dog pissing on a fire hydrant to mark it as his territory. Steve Barnard
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