Quote Originally Posted by kyoryu View Post
"Splat" as a term for asterisk comes from programming.
Oh is that all you mean. I thought there was some match anything search involving the splatbooks or the like. Yes, so far as people can determine, * = splat comes from programmers. Every once in a while someone posits that typesetters might have used the terms as well (sure seems intuitive, given the appearance), but no one every seems to provide a source.