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Fell out of usage with the advent of industrial printing presses, it looks like?
by runningdogx 15y ago
Fell out of usage with the advent of industrial printing presses, it looks like?
- buro9 15y agoYeah, that would be my guess. Survived from through to late 1700s whilst only against the hand-powered press, then as soon as industrial presses (steam powered) appear circa 1800 and mass printing was now possible (double-output with far lower human effort being input) it dropped off. Still doesn't wholly explain it though. If it was seen as a valid character you would expect that the symbol would've been in the charset and have been used in print too.
- sethg 15y agoNow that we have Unicode fonts, we can bring it back! “Dear Mr. Jones: I am pleaſed to reply to your meßage of Tueſsday laſt, requeſting my ſervices as a ſoft-ware engineer...”