splat Archive

  • What’s a Splat?*

    What’s a Splat?*

    SPLAT: 1. Name sometimes given to the asterisk (*) character (ASCII 0101010). This may derive from the ‘squashed-bug’ appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers. The idea started with Phil*, but philasterisk.com is too, I don’t know, LONG, unattractive, not… enough.   Yeah, I know, Splat’s probably too much. But that’s the story.  So [...]

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