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{{quote|'''OP (name redacted)''' Has anyone noticed that [[Twitter]]-style hashtags have replaced HTML-style coding as meta-commentary on the internet?
'''Person responding (also redacted)''' </era>|
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This used to be done with faux C preprocessor directives, e.g.:
{{quote|<nowiki>#</nowiki>ifdef FLAME
[[Flame War|flame flame flame]]
<nowiki>#</nowiki>endif }}
but that usage has largely been supplanted by more-approachable HTML.
Also known as [http://www.langmaker.com/db/Ostensible_Markup_Language Ostensible Markup Language], although it's not the only meaning of that phrase.
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