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Comment by kbenson

7 years ago

I've always wondered whether /s predates, was a concurrent development, or is an evolutionary shortening of </sarcasm>.

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mcbits  7 years ago

The history went something like this:

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

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