A HISTORY OF HASHTAGS

As compiled by an Intro to Communications Class at Salem State University

We crowd-sourced potential historical hashtags for every tenth year between the founding of SSU (as Salem Normal School) in 1854 and today …

1854

#FreeTheSlaves

#SalemNormal

#NotSoNormal

1864

#CivilWar

#SlaveryMustEnd

#IGWT (“In God We Trust” first appears on US coins)

1874

#BabyCharley (Charley Ross, first kidnapping for ranom in US)

#PhillyZoo (Philadelphia Zoo opens on July 1)

#YouthLabor

1884

#LadyLiberty

#GoGrover

1894

#LondonBridge

#Comix (First full-color comic strips in Sunday newspapers)

1904

#OhPanama (Work begins on the Panama Canal)

#GoTeddy (Republican Theodore Roosevelt elected President of US)

#LeapYear

1914

#GOBraves (Alt: #WorldSeries)

#FirstFlight (Alt: #WrightBros)

#WorldWar (Not WWI, since no one called it that yet)

1924

#BallinStalin (Stalin on the rise)

#GoBruins (NHL expands to US)

#Roar24 (Reference to the Roaring ‘20s)

1934

#depression (Alt: #NotSoGreatDepression)

#AdolfCreeping (Hitler on the rise)

1944

#NutcrackerUS (First stateside performance)

#WWII

#DDay

1954

#HaveItYourWay

#BostonKidney

#1NationUnderGod

1964

#EndDiscriminaton (Civil Rights Act of 1964)

#StrangleThis

#MeetTheBeatles

1974

#GarrityRuling (Alt: #BostonBusing)

#FindPatty (Hearst kidnapping)

1984

#MoarReagan

#OrwellLives

1994

#MandelaPres

#NoBaseball

#HardingTimes (Tonya Harding scandal)

2004

#ReverseTheCurse

#NipSlip (Janet Jackson Super Bowl Controversy)

#HelloFacebook

2014

#UkraineProtests

#GovBaker (Charlie Baker elected governor of Massachusetts)

#iPhone6