The hash, the pound sign, the number sign, the hex–whatever you call it, the four-stroke cross-hatch possibly born at Bell The hash, the pound sign, the number sign, the hex–whatever you call it, the ...

If you want to follow conversation threads relating to this show on social media—whether Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, Tumblr—you know to look for the hashtag: #99pi. In our current digital age, ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The technology field is ripe with peculiar acronyms, vendor names and abbreviations. To compound ...

As athletes from around the globe gather in Paris and its environs for the XXXIII Summer Olympics later this month, ask yourself: How would you like it if you won gold medals in two of the Olympics’ ...

Not being a tweeter, I rarely think about the octothorpe, now known more commonly as a hashtag. I do mark students’ papers by hand, though, and one thing I tend to insert — when no one is spelled as ...

The hash, the pound sign, the number sign, the hex—whatever you call it, the four-stroke cross-hatch possibly born at Bell On ancient maps, # was sometimes used to indicate the presence of a village.