Origins of @InsertNameHere
October 2nd, 2007
I just recently caught on to the trend of referencing other people’s blog comments by prefixing their username with @. I like it. And I’m probably one of the last people on Planet Internet to “catch on”. (again, feeling behind the curve here)
Did this convention originate with Twitter?
I fully expect a whole bunch of comments where you guys reference each other’s comments with @.
Go.
Here is the first comment to get you started.
@Eric I first saw the @handle commenting convention on blogs that does not support threaded comments. I think it predates Twitter.
I saw it on the World of Warcraft official forums quite awhile ago.
I wonder if it was the JSR 175 folks, or Crazy Bob
@Override. You might be onto something there!
@Inject and @Override, I think you are the same person.
This trend will stop when WordPress supports comment nesting/replying.
@what’s @the @big @deal…
@Santa, I would like a pony.