Where Does the #Hashtag Symbol Come From?

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What’s the #origin of the hashtag symbol?

It’s gone by many names, (the pound sign, the number sign, the octothorpe and the hashtag symbol) and it’s had many meanings, but what is the origin of this # mysterious symbol? Well the truth is it goes back all the way to ancient Rome. But what’s even stranger is that the hashtag symbol can help us understand the always changing nature of the abstraction that is language itself.

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Works Cited
Jacques Derrida Of Grammatology and Writing and Difference
Ferdinand de Saussure Course in General Linguistics
Roland Barthes Mythologies
Gayatri Spivak “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Mikhail Bahktin The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
Sylvia Wynter “Ethno or Socio Poetics”
Hortense Spillers “Interstices: A Small Drama of Words”
https://www.bgdblog.org/2014/04/semiotics-race-walks-wild-side/

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/oral-history-hashtag/

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-ancient-roots-of-punctuation

http://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/2014/06/history-journey-and-many-faces-hash-symbol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY6dWRfvSOs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4A_wdR0Ukc

"semiotics, n.". OED Online. June 2017. Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/175724?redirectedFrom=semiotics
18 year old voting rate:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/01/16/younger-voters-dont-vote-as-much-but-18-year-olds-are-an-exception/?utm_term=.dc8061b16dd5

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