{"id":48932,"date":"2016-08-03T07:30:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T11:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=48932"},"modified":"2016-07-26T10:20:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T14:20:26","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-who-invented-the-hashtag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-knowledge-who-invented-the-hashtag\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Who Invented the Hashtag?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/game-of-phones?source=blog_uk080316\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-48933 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/26556_uk080316.jpg\" alt=\"26556_uk080316\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now a ubiquitous symbol used to tag social media content, it\u2019s reasonable to assume that the hashtag [#] must be a Silicon Valley invention that can\u2019t be older than the personal computer\u2014right? #guessagain. Once called a \u201cnumber sign\u201d or \u201cpound sign,\u201d the character in question first appeared in bookkeeping parlance and typewriter keyboards in the 1880s (not the 1980s). Its modern origins may lie in shorthand for the Roman term <em>libra pondo<\/em> (\u201cpound weight\u201d), but a recent discovery suggests that the form of the hash mark goes back much farther in human history\u2014WAY back, in fact. While studying Gorham\u2019s cave in Gibraltar, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/neanderthal-hashtag-artwork-found-2014-9\" target=\"_blank\">archaeologists found a rough hashtag-like symbol<\/a> carved into a natural platform of rock. They were confident that the carving was human-made\u00a0and not the accidental result of activity like butchering game. They\u2019ve dated the carving at around 37,000 BCE and here\u2019s the amazing thing: it wasn\u2019t made by <em>Homo sapiens,<\/em> but rather by our distant cousins the <em>Neanderthals,<\/em> making it possibly the oldest humanoid creation ever found. #prehistoricpoundsign #hominidhashtag #neanderthalsarepeopletoo<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/game-of-phones?source=blog_uk080316\" target=\"_blank\">Game of Phones<\/a> | $20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now a ubiquitous symbol used to tag social media content, it\u2019s reasonable to assume that the hashtag [#] must&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":48933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49484,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48932\/revisions\/49484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}