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Microsoft claim to have found the first smiley:

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 11:55 (twenty-three years ago)

which I think is a silly story. I can't believe that it took until the widespread availability of computers for someone to figure out that those typewrittn characters together make a smiley face????? The real first smiley must be much, much older - mustn't it?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I refuse to be younger than a fecking emoticon. NO.

― Michael A. (Michael A.), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 12:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, a bit convenient that they just "happened" to find it a week before its twentieth anniversary. Rather suspiciuos, that...

― kate, Tuesday, 17 September 2002 12:40 (twenty-three years ago)

:'(

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, tracer posted a link to the original messages on "attack of the emoticons"...

you've got these science guys saying "wouldn't it be grebt if we had someway of conveying our emotions" "mentalist" "ha ha :-) do you see?" "that roxor!"

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 16:39 (twenty-three years ago)

"Wouldn't it be great if we had some way of conveying our emotions" ... with a keyboard ... with letters all over it ... yes, half-assed little pictograms are surely the answer!

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

>:P

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Stuff like ILOL has been around for decades in non-computer forums, or at least in APAs (Amateur Press/Publishing Associations), and I see no reason why the same should not be true of 'emoticons.' Except for, as nabisco pointed out, the fact that APAns can probably use written language to convey emotions. Also, I usually interpret ;) or :> as HHOK (= Ha Ha Only Kidding).

I have a lady in my back pocket who says that Kate Masonic-Boom is OTM here.

― Tim Bateman, Thursday, 19 September 2002 12:06 (twenty-three years ago)

'...APAns can probably use written language to convey emotions.'

Manyof 'em most of the time, maybe...

― Tim Bateman, Thursday, 19 September 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

'...APAns can probably use written language to convey emotions.'

Many of 'em most of the time, maybe...

― Tim Bateman, Thursday, 19 September 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

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― Dada, Monday, 5 April 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

{:?

(Chad. As in, "Wot no....?")

― Dorien Thomas (Dorien Thomas), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

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