My post about CAPS

[getting old in mke]

10. Yeah

My typing class days weren't 60, but were 45 and things have definitely changed.

My comment was pretty much just a "history of computers and the net" where ways had to be found when there was just a green screen that couldn't do underlining, italics, bold, etc. So that from 25-30 years ago in that arena the "_" and "*" conventions have been common even until today--a lot of Wiki markup languages still use them. They were fairly common in email listserv discussions, news servers, and any text based browsers. Wasn't meant to be a comment on the way any non-virtual worlds (some might say real worlds) like publishing might use them.

Did a gig at UW-Madison prior to the advent of anything like graphical operating systems and helped develop software for doing computer typesetting and learned waaaaay more about it that was probably good for me. Although it did lead to writing a music typesetting program in the early 90s that was a lot of fun.