• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Others have already answered better than I, but it’s basically just a symbol to signify a weight, pound.

    It was already repurposed to be a symbol for numbers, when they are part of a sentence, and now it’s being repurposed even more so for the Internet.