# Asterisk

<https://cormullion.github.io/pages/2020-10-09-asterisk/>

- Host: [cormullion.github.io](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/cormullion.github.io/)
- Saved: October 11, 2020 (2020-10-12T02:17:39Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1ab5d9383ce9/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1ab5d9383ce9.json

## What Jamie wrote

This is so delightful, a historical deep dive on the asterisk and it’s various uses. This is the kind of thing that makes me love the Internet all over again. *

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT161: Weekly Thing #161 / Letter, Asterisk, You Should Write ✍️](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/161/), Recommended Links

## Saved the same week

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- [What’s New In Python 3.9 — Python 3.9.0 documentation](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0ee10fccfc0f/) (docs.python.org, October 11, 2020)
- [ProPublica to Launch New Regional Units in the South and Southwest; ProPublica Illinois to Expand to Midwest Regional Newsroom — ProPublica](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ed3a50b85bc4/) (propublica.org, October 11, 2020)
- [Developing For The Semantic Web — Smashing Magazine](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/66baf70e50ce/) (smashingmagazine.com, October 11, 2020)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://cormullion.github.io/pages/2020-10-09-asterisk/