[ih] from whence cometh ">" ?

[Greg Skinner]

On Oct 14, 2025, at 6:38 AM, Craig Partridge via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> I just spent half an hour digging through the msggroup, tcp-ip and
> header-people mailing lists from the mid to late 1970s and none of them use
> the diple.
> 
> So I'm guessing it was an innovation in one of the email or netnews reading
> tools developed in the late 1970s to early 1980s.  There are lots of
> choices that appeared about that time: readnews, rn, Berkeley Mail (?), MH
> and, I think, some Emacs reading tools.
> 
> Craig

I poked around net.unix-wizards using Google Groups and noticed some use of “> “ popped up in late 1983 [1] There may have been a new release of Usenet sources sometime around then.

Greg

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/net.unix-wizards/c/LKjrqzez2EA/m/A-CCrVZc7jAJ