Venkatesh Rao@vgr!Translate TweetQuote Tweet@interfluidity@fosstodon.org@interfluidity·Sep 10, 2018one thing you have to give twitter credit for, the service has inspired a new verb whose unique spelling is a single, non-alphanumeric character. don’t @ me.4:57 AM · Sep 10, 20181 Retweet11 Likes
𒃲𒌋𒅗𒆪𒁉@ultimape·Sep 10, 2018Replying to @vgrThis isn't really true, the origin of the @ symbol as a human denotation signifier has been with us since the creating of arpanet - before the Internet (as we know it) even existed. Twitter adopted it from its users. https://smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-accidental-history-of-the-symbol-18054936/…1