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Tidybuoy 02-20-2018 06:42 AM
This is an adult forum, you need to ask a grandchild this question.

wayner 02-20-2018 06:51 AM
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 9933660)
It is the sign that marketing is indeed powerful.

It was the called the pound sign for many long years, then the new generation of marketing people that were too stupid to know the real name of the symbol just made up a new name and applied marketing.
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You youngsters

I’m tellin ya it’s an octothorpe

KFC911 02-20-2018 06:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Tidybuoy (Post 9933703)
This is an adult forum, you need to ask a grandchild this question.
I bet somebody in PARF knows :)

Pazuzu 02-20-2018 06:52 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 9933660)
It is the sign that marketing is indeed powerful.

It was the called the pound sign for many long years, then the new generation of marketing people that were too stupid to know the real name of the symbol just made up a new name and applied marketing.

I suspect soon someone will decide the tilde ( ~ ) will be renamed the wave or the waver or some other idiotic name and it will sweep the world.
That's great...except that it's been called hash or some variant of that overseas for decades. So, seems that it WASN'T reinvented by "stupid marketing people".

"Hash" has also been used in the software/computing world for as long as it's been around, which is why "hashtag" is a natural extension.

speeder 02-20-2018 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Tidybuoy (Post 9933703)
This is an adult forum, you need to ask a grandchild this question.
More like this is a forum for people who are extremely old. :(

wayner 02-20-2018 07:03 AM
OCTOTHORPE!!

Dang computerized generation:mad:

scottmandue 02-20-2018 07:13 AM
Ironically at 61 I used my first hashtag this morning at an attempt of a comedic post to FB:

"Temps in SoCal have dropped into the 40's, the next ice age has arrived! We are all dooooomed! The end is near! Send us your goose down, I'm not sure what to do with it but I hear it is good for this type of thing! #thestruggleisreal #sendhottoddies

Por_sha911 02-20-2018 07:18 AM
I know the question is about hashtags but oh, BTW, "Cantdrive55" - the speed limits were increased several decades ago. You are really out of touch... ;)

scottmandue 02-20-2018 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Por_sha911 (Post 9933763)
I know the question is about hashtags but oh, BTW, "Cantdrive55" - the speed limits were increased several decades ago. You are really out of touch... ;)
Maybe he is a huge Sammy Hagar fan? :cool:

Por_sha911 02-20-2018 07:24 AM
C'mon Scott, don't ruin the punchline!

sugarwood 02-20-2018 07:25 AM
Here you go.

Let's say you're looking at photos on Instagram.
You come across this
https://www.instagram.com/p/BfbK-uClZ-Q/?hl=en


You notice the #Porsche911 tag.
That is a keyword associated with this photo.
What is this "Porsche 911" he speaks of? I want to see more of this topic!
If you want more photos also tagged with that keyword, click it.
So, if you click it, you now see every photo with the #porsche911 tag
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/porsche911/?hl=en

wayner 02-20-2018 07:29 AM
#BringBackOctoThorpe!!!

ckelly78z 02-20-2018 08:24 AM
#Thread is done!

ZAMIRZ 02-20-2018 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by speeder (Post 9933736)
More like this is a forum for people who are extremely old. :(
I'm only 33, but the original post and subsequent answers are quite telling.

scottmandue 02-20-2018 10:01 AM
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Originally Posted by ZAMIRZ (Post 9933948)
I'm only 33, but the original post and subsequent answers are quite telling.
Gosh durn whippersnappers and their hasytabs, GPSers, and instabook! Why, when I was a kid you could buy a steak dinner for a nickle!

and their were buffalo everywhere

sammyg2 02-20-2018 10:45 AM
Sometimes being "out of it" is a good thing.
A real good thing.

cantdrv55 02-20-2018 03:58 PM
You guys are hilarious!

sammyg2 02-20-2018 04:19 PM
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1519175968.jpg


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1519175968.jpg


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1519175968.jpg

slodave 02-20-2018 04:55 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 9933660)
It is the sign that marketing is indeed powerful.

It was the called the pound sign for many long years, then the new generation of marketing people that were too stupid to know the real name of the symbol just made up a new name and applied marketing.

I suspect soon someone will decide the tilde ( ~ ) will be renamed the wave or the waver or some other idiotic name and it will sweep the world.
You couldn’t be more wrong.

Pound, number, and hash have all been around a long time. Do you call a #2 pencil a “pound 2 pencil”? In America, if the “#” symbol is before a number, we refer to it as a number symbol. If it’s placed after a number, it’s referred to as a pound sign, 5# or 5 pounds(lbs). The word “hash” isn’t used much here in the US, mostly in The United Kingdom and Ireland, but it is called that. The word hash was adopted as the metadata tag, aka hashtag.

rattlsnak 02-20-2018 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by ckelly78z (Post 9933859)
#Thread is done!
uh.. no... #threadisdone is the correct way to hashtag that!


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