True, but it has orignated through the use of programming to make things bold color changes etc... and thats what I was trying to say, but yes, that particualy stlye/language is from mostly forums, infact only forums as far as i am aware. Nonetheless it just is simply short for end thread:icon_biggswaq said:That's more from forum mark-up tags, such as the original UBB tags. That is similar to hypertext mark-up language (HTML) and XML which uses angle brackets (<tag>something</tag>). Mark-up languages aren't really programming languages, because you aren't programming anything, you're just describing data/display methods.