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by jolmg 2708 days ago
> a shorthand way to indicate a topic

And I imagine it was also inspired by IRC channels.
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sleepybrett 2708 days ago
100% slack is essentially evolved irc.
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jolmg 2708 days ago
The part I quoted was about Twitter, not Slack. Slack's relation to IRC was already mentioned. Essentially, my comment was "Not just Slack, Twitter too was inspired by IRC."
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seba_dos1 2706 days ago
I'd bet that quite a lot of early Twitter users were also IRC users.
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