[hermitdev]

I started using C# towards the end of the 1.0 beta or maybe just after RTM...I embarrassingly called it "C pound" for quite a while. Because, even as someone born and raised in the US, pretty much my only exposure to the symbol was in the context of phones. "Call me at blah, pound one-two-three" as in the extension is "#123".

Remember, it was originally release +20 years ago (goddamn, I feel old now); recorded video or even audio over the internet were much, much, MUCH rarer then, when "high-speed" speed internet for a lot of people meant a 56K modem.

Back then, most developer's first exposure to C# then was likely in either print form (books or maybe MSDN magazine).

[pjmlp]

Not alone, also got those CDs for MSFT partners only, with the draft documentation written in red, before it became know to the outside world?

Also got a few of those magazine CDs, in some box.