Sivy Posted September 19, 2002 Share Posted September 19, 2002 that's right............... the smiley :-) HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU :-) By Mark Mayne THE smiley computer symbol :-) celebrates its 20th birthday today. The simple text picture - which represents a smiling face - sparked a revolution in computer communication and spawned a whole language of similar symbols. The smiley is now used daily by hundreds of millions of people worldwide in emails, Instant Messages and mobile phone text messages. The colon, dash, bracket arrangement is used as shorthand to indicate anything from a bad joke to 'have a nice day'. A full language of similar text pictures, known as emoticons, has emerged. Now a computer researcher claims he's found the first ever smiley, on a bulletin board at the Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, on September 19, 1982. Mike Jones at Microsoft's Systems and Networking Research Group says he unearthed the original emoticon after six months of 'computing archaeology'. The discovery was made after he and former colleagues trawled through logs from bulletin boards at the US university. They say the definitive posting reads: "I propose that the following character sequence for markers :-)." ___________________________________________________ well there you go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rfa_vasquez Posted September 19, 2002 Share Posted September 19, 2002 YAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY SMILEY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrion Posted September 19, 2002 Share Posted September 19, 2002 Dont flatter yourself:rolleyes: But...uh..I got a Geforce 4 Ti 64 MB, Might go into a gate class with my best friend and my crush(Um..it seems you have to tell my school to put your kid in gate even though he was doing great in his last school AND got the best award in it), and Blizzard is gonna show what new game they're releasing today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sivy Posted September 19, 2002 Author Share Posted September 19, 2002 Originally posted by Tyrion Dont flatter yourself:rolleyes: But...uh..I got a Geforce 4 Ti 64 MB, Might go into a gate class with my best friend and my crush(Um..it seems you have to tell my school to put your kid in gate even though he was doing great in his last school AND got the best award in it), and Blizzard is gonna show what new game they're releasing today. are you in the right place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrion Posted September 19, 2002 Share Posted September 19, 2002 Originally posted by SivyB are you in the right place? Its..the...insanity...d00d... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorganfloss Posted September 19, 2002 Share Posted September 19, 2002 Yay for the smiley! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTeddyPaul Posted September 19, 2002 Share Posted September 19, 2002 I have never used a smiley on the computer. Now is as good a time as any. Are you ready for it? Here it comes! My first ever smiley. I did it for the nook I mean smiley! BigTeddyPaul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorganfloss Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Pretty soon you'll be using them in every post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Uh-oh! Look what Mr. Smiley is doing! AHHH! NOOO! SMILEYYYY!!! ~Goodbye cruel word.- Smiley~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorganfloss Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Originally posted by Tie 23 Uh-oh! Look what Mr. Smiley is doing! AHHH! NOOO! SMILEYYYY!!! ~Goodbye cruel word.- Smiley~ NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Dam u Tie 23!!!! *prays to satan* :evil1:"Im baaaaaaaack!" Yay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Originally posted by gorganfloss NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Dam u Tie 23!!!! *prays to satan* :evil1:"Im baaaaaaaack!" Yay! No hes okay, he is now a angel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NerfYoda Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Hmm from what I knew the 1st smiley was 1st proposed by a fellow named Kevin MacKenzie on April 12, 1979. He posted to MsgGroup (the 1st sort of mailing list system, developed in 1975) saying that there was a "loss of meaning" in text messaging systems & proposed adding further punctuation to emphasize points.... I believe he spelled the 1st smiley as: : -) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Groovy Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 "Very EEEEEEEEEEnteresting, but so stupid!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtroop Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 im with groovy on this rare ocasion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kstar__2 Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Originally posted by NerfYoda Hmm from what I knew the 1st smiley was 1st proposed by a fellow named Kevin MacKenzie on April 12, 1979. He posted to MsgGroup (the 1st sort of mailing list system, developed in 1975) saying that there was a "loss of meaning" in text messaging systems & proposed adding further punctuation to emphasize points.... I believe he spelled the 1st smiley as: : -) : -) was for happy posts : -( for serious posts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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