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Author Topic: Where does HASH TAG come from? Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-10-2013 03:38 PM                     quote: Paul Mayer And another term I've heard for the asterisk... "Butthole". Yeah. As in: (_*_) ...And it gets worse than that. I'll spare you.  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 05-10-2013 05:55 PM                     Full wikipedia artical about this symbol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_symbol  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 05-10-2013 08:13 PM                     quote: Mike Blakesley Isn't "hash" a computer programming term for managing data? I think that's probably where the "hashtag" term originated. A hash function is a function that creates a fixed length (usually a much shorter) representation of a variable length data set. The result is often called a hash. Hash functions are often used for cryptographic purposes, like storing encrypted/hashed passwords, but also to check the validity of a certain data set. Yet, I don't think the symbol # is related to those hash functions, although the "hash" symbol itself is very often used in computing. Most commonly as a starting indicator of a "single line" comment in many programming and scripting languages.  |  IP: Logged

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