“Episode 145: Octothorpe”

Jess Brooks
Science and Innovation
1 min readJan 23, 2015

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“In our current digital age, the hashtag identifies movements, events, happenings, brands — topics of all kinds. The “#” didn’t always have this meaning, though.

It’s had a few different lives.

The hashtag, as we know it, was born one day in 2007.”

This was great great — and I love where it gets at the end about language and technology. Lols, Octothorpe.

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Jess Brooks
Science and Innovation

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