> I’ll go first: It helped me debug my first line of HTML.
In Markdown (the language of this blog post), typing > at the start of a line turns ordinary words into a blockquote. It gives weight and context to someone else’s words. Before fancy emojis, before reaction GIFs, there was the > . more than symbol on keyboard
username@computer:~$ Wait—that’s not a > anymore. But in many shells, the > is hiding as the . When you type ls > files.txt , you aren’t just writing a command. You’re telling the computer: “Take the output of ls and send it into this file.” > I’ll go first: It helped me debug
When you reply to an email and see: This is what the other person said... That indented line? Many email clients and forums use > as the . It’s a visual breadcrumb trail. It says, “This isn’t my voice—it’s theirs.” Before fancy emojis, before reaction GIFs, there was