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When did "@" start meaning "to"?

Asked by MrItty (17406points) September 15th, 2008

I’ve only started noticing this in the past several months, maybe a year or so. As far as I was aware ”@” is pronounced “at”. But now I’m seeing it more and more as a prefix to someone’s username. So that ”@Joe” seems to mean “To Joe: ...” When did this behavior begin?

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