When did the world change to the so called hashtag? When I was younger it was only the pound sign. So hashtag Taylor Swift still reads in my mind pound Taylor Swift?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.world · 4 days ago

When did the world change to the so called hashtag? When I was younger it was only the pound sign. So hashtag Taylor Swift still reads in my mind pound Taylor Swift?

Cethin@lemmy.zip · 3 days ago

So it’s not a “hashtag” without the hash and the tag. #TIL

Technically, yes. Practically, I don’t think this is true. If you ask 100 people under 20 what “#” is called, 99 or 100 will say it’s a hashtag. Language shifts, and that’s becoming the common name for it, even without it tagging something.