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Originally Posted by Wetwork
I thought the #Me too, thing about all the sexually harassed ladies was a auto-correct. In my head the "#" sign means pound? So I saw "Pound Me Too..." Not joking either, I must be old.-WW
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To me the # is just pound, and I still think pound when I see #.
Back before any autocorrect way bay in the early 1980s, I got into Computers with a Commodore 64. I bought a 300 Baud modem to connect to other computers, but the modem had no software. I joined the local computer club to learn how to use it. A two line bit of code typed in carefully, and then a friend could send you the modem control software. It was like magic and no viruses malware back then.
I ended up helping many other guys with that same thing. They type in two line of code, and I could send them them the software, and they can get on a BBS and download to their hearts content.
Anyway to point of the story I met a guy at the meeting that needed that help. We exchange phone numbers and I called him at home. I told him the codes and all modem codes had # and ~ and lots of other weird symbols to work. He got his modem working and we could type messages back and forth which was cool for the era. At one point he was asking what monitor I had and if I had the cassette tape or floppy drive or the mythical hard disc rumored to be available.
Only he mistyped the questions and instead of asking if I had a hard disc, he asked if I had a hard dick. I almost did a spit take with my beer when I saw that. He just disconnected when he saw the typo. At the next computer club meeting he would not look at me from embarrassment.