Day 51
#365project

#Hash in #Analog... Long before the tag.

𝙵𝚞𝚗 𝙵𝚊𝚌𝚝
This technical name for this symbol is the #octothorpe. It was designed in the #1960s by engineers at Bell Labs to add a 12th button to the #PushButtonPhone specifically for #aesthetic reasons.

#TheMoreYouKnow 🌠








#hashtag #PoundSign #TouchTone #NumberSign #vintage #retro #telephone #OldTelephone #VintageTech #macro #MacroPhotography #monochrome #bnw #bw #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #photography #texture #TextureTuesday #greyscale #grayscale #FunFact

#nytimesgames it's an #octothorpe, not a "hashtag"

I was today years old when I found out that the pound/number/hash character is called [drum roll] an #octothorpe#!

"He's the author of a book called Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks!" - AVERY TRUFELMAN, Octothorpe, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #Octothorpe #NationalPunctuationDay #AveryTrufelman

We now have an official dev blog on the docs site. First entry is a roundup of all the things we've added in our first proper release. That includes #webrings, a powerful #api, multi-site #rss feeds, and more. Check it out at https://docs.octothorp.es/blog/point-oh-five/ And, using OP, we created a webring to group all the sites involved in development. You can follow a single RSS feed for post from any of those sites using #octothorpe-news to get updates, wherever they come from. Follow here: https://octothorp.es/get/everything/in-webring/rss/?s=https://docs.octothorp.es/dev-webring&o=octothorpe-news

If you #octothorpe is it recursive? #ocotothorpe