clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛> Believe it or not, the [hash character] has been around for quite a while. Its use is traced back to Roman times when writers would use the abbreviation “lb” over and over again, adding a line above to indicate that it was an abbreviation of for the phrase “libra pondo” meaning “pound in weight”.
So that's where the idea comes from to call it the "pound key" on the phone! TIL.
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