(thing) by gabrielh Sat Mar 25 2000 at 2:33:23

When seen in a URL, indicates a space.

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(thing) by bob the cow Thu Apr 06 2000 at 0:05:32

it is called the 'escaped' representation of a space. in javascript escape()-ing a string will return that string fit for a URL. See an example.

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