Members Jeff da Weasel Posted September 18, 2007 Members Share Posted September 18, 2007 Source Language experts say the smiley face and other emotional icons, known as emoticons, have given people a concise way in e-mail and other electronic messages of expressing sentiments that otherwise would be difficult to detect. Fahlman posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on Sept. 19, 1982, during a discussion about the limits of online humor and how to denote comments meant to be taken lightly. "I propose the following character sequence for joke markers: :-)," wrote Fahlman. "Read it sideways." :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Super 8 Posted September 18, 2007 Members Share Posted September 18, 2007 :-P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cry Logic Posted September 18, 2007 Members Share Posted September 18, 2007 Wikipedia has a very informative page on Emoticons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 If only he had a copyright for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 19, 2007 Members Share Posted September 19, 2007 : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted September 19, 2007 Members Share Posted September 19, 2007 My favorite is the guy with the dunce cap, glasses and goatee: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeff da Weasel Posted September 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 19, 2007 How many of you had even heard of the Internet (in the form of "online bulletin boards") in 1982? I didn't get online in any aspect until 1990. Hell, I didn't own my own computer until 1994. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted September 19, 2007 Members Share Posted September 19, 2007 SourceLanguage experts say the smiley face and other emotional icons, known as emoticons, have given people a concise way in e-mail and other electronic messages of expressing sentiments that otherwise would be difficult to detect. Fahlman posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on Sept. 19, 1982, during a discussion about the limits of online humor and how to denote comments meant to be taken lightly. "I propose the following character sequence for joke markers: :-)," wrote Fahlman. "Read it sideways.":lol: I hope you saw that he doesn't like bitmapped emoticons -- he thinks they should keep their text-only roots... ;^) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members G Geezer Posted September 19, 2007 Members Share Posted September 19, 2007 How many of you had even heard of the Internet (in the form of "online bulletin boards") in 1982? I didn't get online in any aspect until 1990. Hell, I didn't own my own computer until 1994. Heard about it, but didn't get in til '94 when Apple launched E-World. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld Yes, I was a member Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Super 8 Posted September 19, 2007 Members Share Posted September 19, 2007 How many of you had even heard of the Internet (in the form of "online bulletin boards") in 1982? I got my TRS-80 in '81, and it came with an advertisement for Compuserve, but I didn't have a modem. I think it was '91 when I got my 386 with a 2400 baud modem and started finding little local BBS's around town. I didn't finally get on the internet until '95, when I bought my Pentium 200mhz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 19, 2007 Members Share Posted September 19, 2007 How many of you had even heard of the Internet (in the form of "online bulletin boards") in 1982? I didn't get online in any aspect until 1990. Hell, I didn't own my own computer until 1994. You're ahead of me. I don't know when I heard of the internet...I'm guessing it was the late '80s, but I don't remember. I got online in 1994 with a 33MHz PC that I borrowed, and had a website by late 1994 (www.elevenshadows.com used to be www.theeleventhhour.com, but is otherwise the same website). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted September 19, 2007 Members Share Posted September 19, 2007 posted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticons In Finland, the emoticons :-), =), =(, and were trademarked in 2006 for use with various products and services.[13] :boo: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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