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miss_squiddyAwww. Happy 25th birthday, emoticons! Without you, we'd never know how happy, surprised or grumpy anyone is.
:-D
"Carnegie Mellon professor Scott E. Fahlman was the first to use the :-) in a computer message on an online electronic bulletin board.
Fahlman posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on September 19, 1982, during a discussion about the limits of online humour and how to denote comments meant to be taken lightly.
"I propose the following character sequence for joke markers: :-)," wrote Fahlman. "Read it sideways."
The suggestion gave computer users a way to convey humor or positive feelings with a smile -- or the opposite sentiments by reversing the parenthesis to form a frown.
Carnegie Mellon said Fahlman's smileys spread from its campus to other universities, then businesses and eventually around the world as the Internet gained popularity."
Today Welshview (I don't know how to link to syndicated feeds properly, OK) is so full of weird that there's no point in me linking to individual stories. Just go and read it. There are severed limbs, limbless headbutters, gay babies, japanese weird and balancing baseball bats...
*Sigh!* I love the internet, don't you?
:-D
"Carnegie Mellon professor Scott E. Fahlman was the first to use the :-) in a computer message on an online electronic bulletin board.
Fahlman posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on September 19, 1982, during a discussion about the limits of online humour and how to denote comments meant to be taken lightly.
"I propose the following character sequence for joke markers: :-)," wrote Fahlman. "Read it sideways."
The suggestion gave computer users a way to convey humor or positive feelings with a smile -- or the opposite sentiments by reversing the parenthesis to form a frown.
Carnegie Mellon said Fahlman's smileys spread from its campus to other universities, then businesses and eventually around the world as the Internet gained popularity."
Today Welshview (I don't know how to link to syndicated feeds properly, OK) is so full of weird that there's no point in me linking to individual stories. Just go and read it. There are severed limbs, limbless headbutters, gay babies, japanese weird and balancing baseball bats...
*Sigh!* I love the internet, don't you?
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Date: 2007-09-19 07:37 am (UTC)