What did they used to call #?
And now a word from Joe Butler of our marketing department:
If you want to impress/annoy people THIS week, use the word "octoherp." It was a name suggested by Bell Labs in the 1960s to describe the # symbol on new touch-tone phones since they didn't think people would know "pound." It later became "Octothorpe" in honor of the athlete. In 2007, Twitter users changed the word to "hashtag."
Impressed? Annoyed?
