Today is the 25th anniversary of the date that the "smiley" or "emoticon" was first used. In that time there has been quite a bit of evolution from the original string of characters : - ) to the animated symbols that we all love and use so frequently.
Below is a link to a National Public Radio story on the inventor and tracking down and retrieving the original message in which the first smilies were used.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm
Have a smiley day, one and all!!
Well in that case....
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
Alll Rigghhtttt, I'll drink to that.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
Oh what the heck...
Wow I don't think I have ever used the all.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
Papaya, honey...... is there anything you WON'T drink to?Originally Posted by papayahed
I can't believe that I started a smiley tribute thread and didn't use ANY smilies!!
I read that too! Isn't it cool! And it was born exactly six months after me!
dead on the inside, i've got nothing to prove
keep me alive and give me something to lose
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