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What happens to the ampersand on the internet?
(lemmy.world)
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There's not enough symbols on my keyboard, so let's invent a code so we can write other symbols
Now let's make some real symbols
I want to tell other people how to use our new code, but if I tell them to "just write ÷" it'll turn my message into "just write ÷" !! So how can we fix this?
What if we make & its own code?
Yes! That'll work :)
This is how & came to be, and it's specifically used in HTML as a way to write those symbols above (and escape other a few other symbols for similar reasons we did with &)
As for why & shows up as &, there are 2 main places I can see this happening:
&
as opposed to seeing&
Lol, ok there might be a little more than what meets the eye, cuz when i type `&` (without amp;) it converted it to
&
!!new challenge- try to get it to render a & instead of & inside of `` (or ``` ``` for bulk testing)
tried:
I kinda cheated cuz its not the same character... but I got it to show by using the japanese monospaced & (&)
test:
&