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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by paler on Thursday June 23, 2016 @04:31AM (#11959585)
For the same reason that they also include symbols for many obsolete (dead) languages and writing systems, as well as (per a comment above) a character used by the 1959 IBM 1401 computer (https://github.com/shirriff/groupmark). The need to be able to discuss a certain technology in writing does not disappear just because it is out of general use.

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