Hashtag Homework

The humble hashtag has a long and varied history. It's technical term is 'octothorpe' and it can be traced back to ancient civilizations where it was used as a symbol for weight or measure while in the middle ages, it was used in music notation to indicate a sharp note.

Recent Hashtag Updates

In the 1960s, it was adopted by telephone companies as a symbol for the "number" or "pound" key on touch-tone phones while in 1970, the number sign was used to denote immediate address mode in assemb...