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Originally, it was vertical, like:

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It was a symbol drawn in the sand/dirt in non-Christian times by those illegal Christians as a way to identify each other's religion without being fed to the lions. The two vertical arcs indicate a woman's anus and vagina as a referance to fertility, fertility of the faith, the fertile faith, or something like that. That is how early Christians told each other they were, one would start the arc, the other would finish the other side if they were too. This shape was chosen because it was simple and to a passing Roman/other enemy law official would be nothing particularly special.

Quite how it was bastardised into the horizontal <>< fish is beyond me, but, hey, it's a 2000 year old religion, impossible to stay uncorrupted that long.
\/ Makes more sense to me than this <>< bloody fish idea.
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What the fuck is so special about fish in Christianity anyway?
<>< by Paracetamol 500mg November 8, 2006
*Looks at back of chair* "Ooooo fish!"
<>< by Sammy J December 28, 2003
a formation of punctuation which resembels a fish
1) guess which of my pets died

2) <"(((><

1) thats right my fish :)
<"(((>< by <"(((>< October 30, 2009
FISH...u know....a fish...like...the ones u eat
yo man, i ate some <*)))>< tonite
<*)))>< by lopas May 15, 2005

<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 

When you are bored so you just type the < and > button over and over again.
Chance "Hey Ron why are you typing the arrow buttons?"
Ron "I'm bored simple as that so I typed <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>."
if you look at it sideways it sort of looks like a fish.
"<&))>< looks like a fish if you use your imagination"
<&))>< by babyshambles October 14, 2004