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The hashtag's surprisingly strange technical name
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Before it was hijacked to categorize your terrible vacation photos, the hashtag symbol had a highly formal and incredibly pretentious name. The 'octothorpe' was originally designed for telecommunications, literally translating to eight fields around a central village. Now it just lives to group millions of deeply relatable memes together.
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