Marcin WicharyThis is the earliest appearance of < > I know of today, from 1979.
This thread might slow down, as next step will be some interlibrary requests!
Marcin WicharyThis might be more interesting. <P1> and <P2>! <#> for styling! Excited to dig and learn more.
Marcin WicharyThey are killing me. In the old article about the history of it that I just discovered, they are using… square brackets.
Marcin WicharyThey really are killing me.
Marcin WicharyFired some interlibrary requests. Wish me luck!
Marcin WicharyIs this going to go anywhere? Unclear. But I like this part.
Marcin WicharyI like scanning and putting up interlibrary stuff on Internet Archive.
This is the first one I got. Not sure yet if it’s going to help with the HTML bracket investigation, but maybe it’ll help someone else! https://archive.org/details/gca-standard-101-1983
Marcin WicharyBelieve it or not, I’m still figuring out where HTML got its angle brackets.
But despite grabbing a lot of interlibrary items, I am not sure I’m getting any closer. I still have some ideas, but one involves going to a museum in Maine, which might take a while.
However, good news (for someone?): There are now over 40 papers and books I scanned that deal with history of markup. Enjoy!
https://archive.org/details/wicharytypewriter?tab=collection&query=subject%3A%22markup%22