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What’s the #origin of the hashtag symbol?
It’s gone by many names, (the pound sign, the number sign, the octothorpe and the hashtag symbol) and it’s had many meanings, but what is the origin of this # mysterious symbol? Well the truth is it goes back all the way to ancient Rome. But what’s even stranger is that the hashtag symbol can help us understand the always changing nature of the abstraction that is language itself.
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Graphics By: Noelle Smith
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Works Cited
Jacques Derrida Of Grammatology and Writing and Difference
Ferdinand de Saussure Course in General Linguistics
Roland Barthes Mythologies
Gayatri Spivak “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Mikhail Bahktin The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
Sylvia Wynter “Ethno or Socio Poetics”
Hortense Spillers “Interstices: A Small Drama of Words”
www.bgdblog.org/2014/04/semio...
www.wired.com/2017/05/oral-hi...
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/...
• Octothorpe: the histor...
• What is a Hashtag?
"semiotics, n.". OED Online. June 2017. Oxford University Press. www.oed.com/view/Entry/175724?...
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As a music teacher, I'm really bothered by the fact that this video doesn't address the use of this symbol as the sharp sign in music.
Allison Crain hi thanks for watching! So I actually answered this question at the end of this week's episode on Columbus. Since so many people had the same question as you I did a little digging and it turns out there's a slightly different trajectory of these two signs. Check it out!
Allison Crain Why don’t you address it rather ?
It's not the same symbol. The difference may be a bit too subtle but still.
How many kids have asked you what hash tag F means?
Boohoo you stop getting bothered over small stuff. Sharp signs and hash tags are different symbols, get your facts straight.
When I was little it was a tiny tic-tac-toe board.
This series is genius. Danielle, your style of presentation is just perfect! You lead us to higher levels of thought and vocabulary in a way that is not daunting or off-putting in any way. The topics are always interesting and filled with little surprises. Who would have thought that a hashtag video would actually address semiotics? But of course, that is the level of understanding that you are going for, and it is much appreciated!
Precisely! Couldn't have said it better myself. 👏👏
#DidntExpectASemioticsLesson
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PBS Digital Studios #firstreply #hiboss
#nicedress
#Semiótico
Your hair and outfit are amazing.
As a music teacher it's interesting to hear many students call the sharp sign (musical symbol) a hashtag. The sharp sign has its own distinct history, of course.
I agree with the comments that ask how # came to mean "sharp" or "number." Also, I'm a physics teacher, and I love the way you explain things, so hopefully one of your future episodes is science-related so I can share it in class!
Wesley Morgan thanks so much for watching!
This channel rocks, keep it up!
The symbol # is NOT hashtag! This is hashtag: #ignoramuses
because # is _hash_ and ignoramuses is a tag - all together a hashtag.
Too late man, sorry. Too many people already picked up on calling the thing a hashtag.
Then I'm going to turn the word (and) into a new meaning.
It means, anybody that uses #whatever? is stupid. So every time you read something, and you see the word "and", remember this means you are stupid... sound cool to you.?
Stirring the pot.😅
@@cynthiaayers7696 What you wrote is a non sequitur to my comment. I'm completely baffled by a route you had to take from my comment to end up with your comment. Please rethink it. This might help: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag
I've been using this symbol for tic-tac-toe!!!
I adore these videos. Thank you for sharing the information you find!
I love bringing up the topics to avoid talking about divisive issues with my parents (there are many ways our opinions differ greatly).
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new favorite channel!!!
Im old enough to remember that I actually saw a dial phone. And actually for the longest time, I always wondered why they were calling the number sign suddenly a hashtag.
Thought it was called the pound sign on phones
I look at a 1950s dictionary and could not find it. But I'm old enough to remember it was used for both pound and number sign. And I used the rotary phone.
Give it another 50 years and you won't recognize the English language..?
@@cynthiaayers7696 How did you enter it on a rotary phone?
In Spanish, the hashtag is often called "almohadilla", because (as far as I can tell) it kind of resembles a type of ashlar called the same way. (Also "almohadilla" can mean "small pillow" or "small cushion" which is kinda funny ;D )
##hashtag
Fun fact: a hash in programming is to mark a comment in python
Good day sir, please can you put me through in programming
5 seconds in and had to comment... I'm not sure of the host's name but she came to slay in this video. This is maybe the third video I've seen with her and she's gorgeous.
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This is how times she said hashtag
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I'm glad you gave some love to the octothorpe
I think it's just because this symbol looks like hash browns.
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I do not like the over use of the #hashtag. Some people #hashtag everything. It gets annoying reading #20 consective #hashtags.
Bring it on home now sis
In Polish we used to call # "płotek" and that's diminutive of "fence". Interesting video! I love how your content is astute, that's quite uncommon on UA-cam.
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Great job explaining how the hashtag # originally began !
#Hashtag
Great episode! I knew some of this vaguely, but definitely not in this much detail.
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it’s called the pound sign
and I’m screaming right now because you’re using “hashtag everything”
A true tour de force on this one! Great job! I am an engineering-type nerd, so semiotics is a bit out of my bailiwick, but I always love learning something new. I guess I am doing them out of order, but hey, I've been known to throw caution to the wind and live dangerously on occasion. :-)
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Your outfits in this episode!!!! I love them.
Love the shout out to Shrek!
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Piling on to other comments: use for number and sharp should have been covered. Also, agree that hashtag is the whole of the symbol plus topic: #origin.
I'm sorry but the Hash Tag / Pound Sign / Cross Hatch symbol is much older than that. It has shown up along with other petroglyphs in 40,000 year old cave art. The asterisk has also shown up in this cave art.
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I remember when hashtag was called pound!😏
Jimmy has a panda named hashtag
But in that tweet, Chris does not ask to call it 'name I shall not vindicate here', he asks to call it (pound). This video does not explain where 'again name not vindicated here' actually became stamped into the brains of less efficient beings. The use of one syllable is more efficient than using more than one. Pound..hmmm, let me do the maths here....nope only one and it took less time to say than to write this writ of oddity. Le sigh, soon all our base belong to other beings that no can talk too good like you an me...eye....I. "Help help, I'm bein' regressed!"
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What about IRC the original online chat that used #.......
I am #blessed after watching this video
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Pound sign. Pound sign. Pound sign. Uuummm.... pound sign!!!!! Hashtag??... pound sign!!!
Just bingewatched the channel after watching crashcourse IT. Lovely channel you've got here! I am surprised you haven't promoted it earlier/ enough. The presenter has so much energy and her excitement is viral! Keep it up :D
IT is not the same as CS. It's Crash Course Computer Science, not Crash Course Information Technology.
Daniel Houck Yes! Indeed! Thank you. I know ut isn't the same :) I am not a regular there but I guess I need to :D
I just learned it from C#
My heas hurts🤯😖
#blessing
I never knew why it was called the pound sign! How interesting.
I still use # on calls, but I really don't remember what the * was for other than *69 which came out in the late nineties....
Once your phone is actually in an AUDIO conversation with a computer at the other end, in most such systems the * means cancel either this thread of entries or the number you have started to enter (i.e. correct a typo), while the # means the number (especially if variable length) or the set of numbers is correct, and the computer can respond to them. In other words * means reset and # means end of entry, continue.
@@allanrichardson9081 wow, thank you 🙏 That’s helpful. I will try it out next time!
Love your dress and hair.
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Sharp notes in music look like #
I remember being so confused when people started referring to the pound sign as a hashtag sign
Still a pound sign even sounds cooler 😎
This is my favorite episode so far, Danielle. Don't ever stop talking nerdy to me.
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I'm from Canada and it still legal to drink at the age of 18 but we're more responsible here
When it comes to drinking, my family has an approached that doesn't make us go crazy when we turn drinking age.. it's actually almost boring when we become drinking age, because from a young age its never something that's what forbidden knowledge or unknown to us..
#nevergonnagiveyouup
#Yourself
Since I’m not into social media, I’m sticking to this little guy as a symbol for weight.
What about # meaning number, as in #2 pencil? Where does this meaning fall in the evolution of the meaning of #?
RevJSS thanks for watching! I answered this in the Q & A from this week's episode on Columbus. Check it out!
#Hashtag guy
#HashtagThePanda
My Queen!!!
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My favorite part was learning why pounds are abbreviated lb
As someone with a masters in Linguistics, I'm glad to see #linguisticsinreallife
I use # to indicate my apartment number. #219
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I remember when I would always get so angry when people used the word "hashtag". "It's a pound sign!" I would exclaim, until I learned about the #Octothorp so I shut up about it.
Awesome video! You should make a lot more! Great presentation skills!!!!
Funny she doesnt look nerdish.
Its a pound sign dam it.
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How about the origin of the @ symbol.
I used landlines.
Every sentence has at least 1 noun and 1 adjective. #I do.
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#youlearnsomethingeveryday
I don't think you mentioned the tic-tac-toe board.
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now i know.
Omg it works
I loved this, totally taken aback by the shift to semiotics, but that was a fabulous summary.
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Sorry i broke 123 comments to 124 which is not in order
Calling the # symbol "hashtag" is like calling the - symbol "negative number".
Though perhaps the usage has shifted, the symbol is the hash (or pound, or octothorpe) and the thing the computer recognizes as a special token, a tag, is the hash tag, i.e. the hash + a tag = a hashtag -- # + origins = #origins
Octothorpe.....OMG. I haven't heard that term in many years. I'm only in my mid thirties and it's times like this that I realize I know a lot of random trivia that feels too obscure for even the Jeapardy show to use.
The # is probably the the most abused symbol we have. It's used for many, many things. I didn't know how it came to be used on Twitter but on Linux computers the # simply means that everything after it is a comment in shell scripts. Since Twitter does run Linux servers for hosting their site I thought they used it in Twitter because their admins and developers were already using it for comments on Twitter's servers so until they explained how it came to be used, I thought well, # was already for comments before #comments were a thing so it was a natural progression.
Interesting video.
also it's fair to say the hashtag is now redundant on twitter for anything but convention/affect since links, categories and search have improved.
Lady you’re amazing. Teachers should get inspiration from you
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I wish the video had more information about why the # is used in music and if the symbol also is derived from "lb". And if so, why.
Daniel de Lima hey thanks for watching! Check out the Q&A at the end of this week's episode on Columbus to find out the answer to this question!
Nerd!!!!
When I first saw hashtags used in the way they have come to be known, I immediately associated them with the notion of symbol, which if you think about it makes perfect sense.
Smalltalk, one of the very first pure object-oriented programming languages, used (and still uses) the # as a syntactic introducer to an object of class Symbol. In fact, Smalltalk class names like all globals in the system and method selectors (like #at:put: which is the method selector for placing things in indexed collections such as at: 10 put: 'Ten') are all symbols. In Smalltalk, mentioning a symbol explicitly is notated # and immediately causes the internment of an instance of Symbol if it is not already defined. In Smalltalk, every mention of #foo is identical (in Smalltalk notated ==) to every other instance of #foo and there is only one object #foo in the system symbol table. In other words, each symbol has a single object identity-there are not two independent instances of #foo in a single Smalltalk system.
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Symbols on a phone:1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,*,0,# and that’s it...
Interesting, I like this :)
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£ = Libra/Pound as well
#井 *米
In Medicine it's used as a unofficial shorthand for fracture
"Those of you old enough to remember..." is the most offensive sentence I've ever heard. I feel personally attacked.
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This channel doesn’t receive as much recognition as it deserves.
#Replay
#prayforaldran
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I really wonder about the part where she said pressing the # on the phone let her know if it's a snowy day. Was it used to hear the weather reports? Someone older, please tell me.
DJ croc2016 presumably, she called the school's number, then pressed # when the "machine" answered. Years ago I programmed (Panasonic) Voice Mail systems which allowed * and # to be used in response to a menu.
A pound sign in the uk is a £
That's a different kind of pound
*Wrong. delicious and flickr had them earlier; I think delicious invented them. DISINFORMATION ALERT.*
#- Hipsters use of tagging
#- Pound
#- Number
#- Music note
I hate hashtags, but it’s cuz there’s no button for tagging like there is in literally everything else.
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#beckbrojack
So, the logic behind military conscription at age 18 (an age commonly understood as not really mature), is that a soldier only needs to be trained to to obey. Any dog can do that. Hence the dog tags.
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"Hello, and welcome to moviefone"
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Only programming nerds will care that you didn't explain #! #PYTHON hash bang
Sorry. It's bash, not Python.
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You might want to take this down
The hashtag is a symbol of the alt right
#bashthehash
Could have commented on tic tac toe.
I’m deeply offended you never mentioned the sharp.
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Your dress is really cute.
I like this lady.