News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The New York Times Told Me To Take This Down. Parent comment

Re:The New York Times Told Me To Take This Down by pygy_ on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @07:45PM (#5747866)
> Completely OT, but when the hell did the asterisk-asterisk denoter for italics become multi-line?

I'd say since forever. I don't remember it working differently, and I've been around for some time now (old account: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pygy)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The New York Times Told Me To Take This Down by EGreg on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @08:46PM (#5748081)
This is pretty crazy - I've been on here almost as much as you!
[ Parent | on HN ]