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The Octothorpe
The octothorpe is one of the most commonly-used symbols in the western world, thanks to the introduction of the hashtag concept on Twitter (#thanksTwitter). The symbol continues to signify a number of different things in the world beyond twitter hashtags, including acting as shorthand for the word 'number' or 'pound' (as in weight).
The octothorpe. It's the official name for the # symbol, but what does it mean? It's actually a made-up word, invented in the same laboratories where the telephone came from. The scientists at Bell Laboratories modified the telephone keypad in the early 1960s and added the # symbol to send instructions to the telephone operating system. Since the # symbol didn't have a name, the technicians thought one up. They knew it should be called octo- something because it had eight ends around the edge. What happened next is not entirely clear. According to one report, Bell Lab employee Don MacPherson named it after the Olympian Jim Thorpe. Another former employee claims it was a nonsense word, meant as a joke. Another unverifiable report is much more etymologically satisfying: The Old Norse word thorpe meant 'farm or field', so octothorpe literally means 'eight fields.'
Some of the earliest known uses of the symbol date back from traders’ logs in southern Europe in the 17th century, where they used a funky version of the symbol as shorthand for the word pound, as in weight.
19th century bookkeepers' manuals note that the pound/hashtag symbol stood for pounds, just as it had been used centuries before. Still, at that point the symbol was only used in handwriting and was not a part of standard printing type. Around the same time, the symbol also was used to stand for the word 'number' as in #1, #2, etc. The typewriter became commercially available in the late 1800's and by around 1910, keyboard layouts became more standardized. Most keyboards around the turn of the twentieth century included the pound symbol in their keyboard layout, which propelled its popularity and use to even greater heights.
(sources : https://www.sporcle.com/blog/2017/08/octothorpe-history/
https://www.dictionary.com/e/octothorpe/ )