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Re:Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway and Lost by Qub3d on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:21PM (#16833144)
The "greater than" or right bracket is used as a standard inline quote symbol and has been since before image boorus or chans existed.
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Re:Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway and Lost by greenyoda on Friday April 13, 2018 @11:03PM (#16835653)
Yeah, I was seeing them used in text-based email and Usenet clients in the 1980s, and they're probably even older than that.
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