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Old 06-10-2014, 12:40 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by glatt View Post
Interesting idea. I know people who use the pound sign in written communication and call it a hash tag. Damn cyborgs.
Way back in the dark ages when computers were dinosaur-powered and I was doing my bachelor's in the UK in Math and Computer Science, we called this : # Hash of the Hash Symbol (not Hashtag). I only ever heard it called Pound when I moved to the US. Of course the pound is the currency in the UK so a pound sign is something entirely different.
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