News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018). Parent comment

Re:Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018) by kps on Thursday April 30, 2020 @10:47AM (#23031369)
Historically <> were used; what happened to that convention? See <http://example.com/> or email me at <root@localhost> for details.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018) by 52-6F-62 on Thursday April 30, 2020 @01:43PM (#23033653)
I think it's been conflated in online messaging in the last decade or so as people were imitating markup tags to emote. Eg:

<sarcasm>Oh yeah, that's right</sarcasm>

[ Parent | on HN ]