I don't think it mattered so much for print, but in the early days of the internet you would hear people on the TV laboriously reading out "haich tee tee pee colon slash slash double-u double-u double-u dot contoso dot com".
This is why a friend of mine has the email address "dot at dot at dot at". Yes, that's uniquely parseable back to one valid rfc822 address that works.
I have occasionally wondered about programming language syntax that might take reading aloud into account. Puncutation ends up sounding like Victor Borge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf_TDuhk3No and of course Python's indentation is very at risk of ambiguity.
This is why a friend of mine has the email address "dot at dot at dot at". Yes, that's uniquely parseable back to one valid rfc822 address that works.
I have occasionally wondered about programming language syntax that might take reading aloud into account. Puncutation ends up sounding like Victor Borge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf_TDuhk3No and of course Python's indentation is very at risk of ambiguity.