Question that's been bothering me.
reddit / irc

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madmilton49 · 2019-03-28 21:57

What do you call the # in the context of IRC? I've literally never
known for sure. Obviously it denotes a channel, but is it a hash? A
pound?

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imilkthegoats · 2019-03-28 21:57

I call it pound since it's a pound sign

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madmilton49 · 2019-03-28 22:03

That symbol is also called a hash. And a number. and an octothorpe.
and a hex. and a square.

It has so many names and pound was, IIRC, only prevalent in the US.

I mean, I always just say channel, anyway. But, it just bothers me not
knowing which name is intended.

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frumious · 2019-03-28 23:09

My name is frumious and I pronounce "#" as "#".

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rubinlinux · 2019-03-29 20:09

I have used irc heavily for decades and never really thought about it.
I feel like hash is newer, from the Twitter hashtag era, so pound
would be the only thing I'd have thought to call it before that... but
the need to call it anything but 'channel' never came up..

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madmilton49 · 2019-03-30 10:10

The term hash is definitely not new, hashtag only exists BECAUSE of it
being called a hash as well.

But yeah. I just always wondered what the intended name was.

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Saber_UK · 2019-03-31 10:49

Hash symbol.

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lord_EarlGray · 2019-04-02 16:44

why anyone calls it a "hex"?