[GreenKeys] Why has the '#' symbol been called a number sign, pound sign, and now 'hashtag'?

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Be careful - us millennial will be the ones to help pay for your social security and medicare benefits - when the day comes, one day ^_~ heh…..

Just kidding :) ~


> On Jun 11, 2017, at 4:49 pm, Robert Nickels <ranickel at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> On 6/11/2017 4:32 PM, kn7sfz wrote:
>> 
>> Are they soon gonna say 'followed by the hashtag sign' so the millennials and Gen-Z will know what to do?
> 
> Exactly.   My first thought after reading Eugene' comment was "Oh no, if you start calling it an 'octothorpe' you're going to send all kinds of snowflakes running to their safe spaces!"  ;-)
> 
> 73, Bob W9RAN
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