Researchers have tracked down the first use of a “smiley” emoticon.
19 September 1982. The inventor (or culprit, if you prefer) was one Scott E. Fahlman at Carnegie Mellon.
Mark your calendars.
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Researchers have tracked down the first use of a “smiley” emoticon. 19 September 1982. The inventor (or culprit, if you prefer) was one Scott E. Fahlman at Carnegie Mellon. Mark…
Boy, there is fifteen fickle minutes…
OK, interesting that they could do it at all. I hate to think of how much time it probably took.
Sounds pretty awful. I do have ongoing worries that this age, which has seen such an explosion of information, will be something of a gap in the historical record once all that info, stored on volatile media, goes bad.
Which just reminds me that I really need to do a print-out of my blog.