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dcminter on Dec 20, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

Yeah, I don't think I even heard "pound" for # until I went online and started getting exposed a lot more to US stuff (also harking from the 80s UK micro world).

I feel like "octothorpe" might have been referenced in the jargon file or similar texts?

dcminter on Dec 20, 2024 [–]

I checked, and it gets a passing mention (along with a snipe about annoying Britons!) in Jargon File and Hackers Dictionary.

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