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Re:New logo by jolmg on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @06:31PM (#18926689)
> a shorthand way to indicate a topic

And I imagine it was also inspired by IRC channels.

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Re:New logo by sleepybrett on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @07:02PM (#18926953)
100% slack is essentially evolved irc.
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Re:New logo by jolmg on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @07:09PM (#18927013)
The part I quoted was about Twitter, not Slack. Slack's relation to IRC was already mentioned. Essentially, my comment was "Not just Slack, Twitter too was inspired by IRC."
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Re:New logo by seba_dos1 on Friday January 18, 2019 @05:46PM (#18943842)
I'd bet that quite a lot of early Twitter users were also IRC users.
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