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A symbol that demoted itself from math operator to internet town crier.
old nameOnce called the octothorpe, possibly mocking Olympian Jim Thorpe
first tweetSuggested by Chris Messina in 2007, ignored by Twitter staff
phone keysLived quietly on touch-tone pads since the 1960s
pound signDerived from lb, the abbreviation for the Latin libra