You may have heard that the dollar sign ($) was born from a monogram of the letters “U” and “S,” as in “United States.”Well, you heard wrong.The symbol comes from…

Created by the Ancient Romans, the ampersand made its debut on a wall in Pompeii. It  started out as a representation of the Latin word et, which translates to “and.”…

Back in 1971, American computer programmer Ray Tomlinson, known as the inventor of email, sent the first electronic message, indicating a recipient’s location with the ubiquitous symbol (@). Today, accounting…