CarlRJ@MetalSamurai @sukima @atomicpoet @fediversenews @quephird I was on Usenet quite a bit in the 80’s and 90’s. I don’t recall a lot of slashes being used for italics. Gruber invented something for his own uses that caught on, and nobody jumped in with a clearly better solution, so this is what we have.
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