>>39133I see you are confused as to the use of the greentext feature. Let me break it down for you:
>A website or application can visually display the earlier posts in a response chain.>In the 1980s, this was not possible, they would only send raw text.>A poster would manually type a greater than symbol followed by the post he was responding to, before pressing a downline and typing his own post.>In 1995 a Japanese language wesbite called "Strange World" was created, that used this system, turning the text green.>In 2001 a version of this site that allowed images to be attached, called 2chan, was created.>In 2003 a version of this site in English was created, called 4chan.>In 2006 4chan added a quote link feature, turning greentext quotes into a vestigal feature.>Though sometimes used to specify which segment of the post the poster is responding to, they also took on a new use: bulletpoint stories and lists.