Happy birthday, :-)
Elyse Apantaku has brought it to my attention that two days ago was the 25th birthday of the emoticon. That is, 25 years and two days ago, somebody first suggested that we use colons, dashes, and parentheses to indicate smiling and frowning faces. Clever guy.
Posted September 21st, 2007 in Computing.
Yay! Happy birthday, emoticon! ^_^
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:50 pmActually, people have use various symbols to indicate emotion for quite some time now.
The Prehistory of Emoticons: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004935.html
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:40 pm