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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by kbenson on Monday October 29, 2018 @02:42AM (#18325478)
I've always wondered whether /s predates, was a concurrent development, or is an evolutionary shortening of </sarcasm>.
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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by mcbits on Monday October 29, 2018 @04:53AM (#18325928)
The history went something like this:

    jk
    </sarcasm>
    <sarcasm>...</sarcasm>
    </sarcasm>
    /sarcasm
    /sarc
    /s
    \s
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