@shadychars @WideSpacer Sholes & Gliden sales book from 1875. The tricolon is used as semigraphics, basically.pic.twitter.com/2cxIwJ9Cey
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Is it possible that the invention of Shift freed lowercase “el” to approximate digit 1, and then they could use uppercase “L” for borders…
…and get rid of the tricolon without ever having borders and ones being the same glyph, which was potentially confusing?
That is awesome. Pretty solid evidence - best so far. But i still favor the idea of overloaded usage. And history is never closed.
That is awesome indeed! Some serious ASCII art there. I guess I'd be curious as to why they didn't include a vertical bar instead.
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