11-21-2002, 11:16 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
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Happy Birthday, Smilie
I was just reading an article in an IT trade journal when I came across this little blurb:
"September 19, 2002 marked a milestone in the history of the Internet, according to a Reuters article. It was 20 years ago on this date that Scott Fahlman, an IBM researcher in neural networks, introduced the smiley face emoticon known as  . Two decades later, emoticons are as widespread as the network that conveys them."
Wow. Twenty years! I can hardly remember what communication was like before the smilie. I mean, how DID we convey happiness, sarcasm and anger before?
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11-22-2002, 03:28 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 119
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Re: Happy Birthday, Smilie
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Originally Posted by Brad Adrian
Wow. Twenty years! I can hardly remember what communication was like before the smilie. I mean, how DID we convey happiness, sarcasm and anger before?
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Let's see, we actually *smiled* because, more than likely, we were actually *talking* to people face to face and so could *show* a real emotion. 
--Welmoed
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11-22-2002, 08:50 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 185
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For the hard moments in life
Brad, wasn't the original smiley just a ":" and a ")"?
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11-22-2002, 09:11 AM
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Swami
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 4,396
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Re: Happy Birthday, Smilie
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Originally Posted by Brad Adrian
"September 19, 2002 marked a milestone in the history of the Internet, according to a Reuters article. It was 20 years ago on this date that Scott Fahlman, an IBM researcher in neural networks, introduced the smiley face emoticon known as . Two decades later, emoticons are as widespread as the network that conveys them." |
My memory could be slipping, but I thought Tech TV did a piece on this recently. I seem to remember something about researchers looking through old E-mail archives and concluding it was someone from Carnegie Mellon that created the smiley. Maybe the researchers were from CMU, though....
Steve
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