I’m out of it. What does hashtag # mean?

[Tidybuoy]

This is an adult forum, you need to ask a grandchild this question.

[wayner]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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.
.

You youngsters

I’m tellin ya it’s an octothorpe

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by Tidybuoy

This is an adult forum, you need to ask a grandchild this question.

I bet somebody in PARF knows

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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]

Originally Posted by Tidybuoy

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]

OCTOTHORPE!!

Dang computerized generation

[scottmandue]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

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?

[Por_sha911]

C'mon Scott, don't ruin the punchline!

[sugarwood]

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]

#BringBackOctoThorpe!!!

[ckelly78z]

#Thread is done!

[ZAMIRZ]

Originally Posted by speeder

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]

Originally Posted by ZAMIRZ

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]

Sometimes being "out of it" is a good thing.
A real good thing.

[cantdrv55]

You guys are hilarious!

[sammyg2]

[slodave]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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]

Originally Posted by ckelly78z

#Thread is done!

uh.. no... #threadisdone is the correct way to hashtag that!