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Em dashes —once the sign of a sophisticated writer— were prominent in The New York Times.

s/sophisticated writer/Mac user. It was a pain to type them on Windows so most people just used the regular dash - accessible on any keyboard.

I had no idea! I was a typesetter, we would have to manually create them using keyboard shortcuts on both systems.

Microsoft word would add them for you long before AI

Entering two dashes on the iOS keyboard inserts an emdash, I would use them frequently when I had an iPhone.