Just a random question that popped into my head while correcting a message I sent to a friend.
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I can tell you that it dates at least as far back as IRC and AIM in the 90’s
I remember this too, but in the nerdier channels we used regex notation instead.
s/nerdier/coolest/
I don’t remember * being used on IRC, mainly because it denoted other things. I’m not saying it wasn’t used, merely I remember the latter. Wasn’t aware that was regex, used it in bash.