Here's a funky little piece of weekend edutainment: the history of the hashtag as performed by horn player and music video maker . Raps interspersed with jazzy trombone interludes tell how the now-ubiquitous number sign followed by letters went from a random nothing on the social network to something tweeters today rely on to spread important news, tell jokes and tell they world they're #winning.
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We haven't vigorously vetted Paul's history lesson, but it checks out against a quick web search.
If Paul the Trombonist looks familiar to you, it's because he's also the man behind " ," a viral hit from February about something most of us can related to. In interviewing Paul about that song, we also learned that he made a hypnotic last year.
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