Time to Blast Off - Asterisk Pound
The origin story of Asterisk Pound and the transition from IT administration to software engineering.
Alan AsherJanuary 29, 20181 min read
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Welcome to Asterisk Pound!
Question #1: Where does the name come from?
Answer: A cartoon depiction of a four-letter curse word *#!~
I came up with the concept and logo before realizing the complexity of making a domain name from this concept. I created Asterisk Pound out of necessity as I found myself serving small businesses of Arizona as a network administrator and all around computer guy. However after I found that my “side” business of writing and fixing PHP websites was earning far more money than fixing computers, I quickly changed my focus. After all, I studied computer science and was hardly using that education.