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And for those not familiar with IRC, the association of "#" with Twitter hashtags says "communication" too.

• Infernal 8y ago
  And for those not familiar with early Twitter, the hashtag was not a feature of the platform, but a shorthand way to indicate a topic. This of course was recognized and formalized by Twitter soon after, but I find it fascinating that it was a feature essentially developed by the users and more simply recognized by the platform later.
  • jolmg 8y ago
    > a shorthand way to indicate a topic And I imagine it was also inspired by IRC channels.
    • sleepybrett 8y ago
      100% slack is essentially evolved irc.
      • jolmg 8y ago
        The part I quoted was about Twitter, not Slack. Slack's relation to IRC was already mentioned. Essentially, my comment was "Not just Slack, Twitter too was inspired by IRC."
        • seba_dos1 8y ago
          I'd bet that quite a lot of early Twitter users were also IRC users.
  • handyman5 8y ago
    99 Percent Invisible did a whole show on this a while back: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/octothorpe/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/octothorpe/