Re:Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
by runarberg on Friday October 22, 2021 @08:40PM
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This table on Wikipedia says the inequality symbols were first used in 1631[1]. However guillemets (« ») date to the mid sixteenth century[2] and are still used as quotation marks in many languages. Although according to the page about brackets[3], chevrons were the earliest form of brackets, however I couldn’t find a year.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_mathematical_symbols_...
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#History