This Day in Tech History.
Added 2021-09-19 17:22:10 +0000 UTC
September 19, 1982
In a posting made to a Carnegie Mellon bulletin board, Professor Scott Fahlman proposes the first known use of emoticons (also known as smilicons or smileys). While the use of emoticons became widespread during the 80’s and 90’s, their origin remained unknown until September 10, 2002, when the original message was retrieved from backup tape, which is displayed below.
19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)
From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>
I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:
:-)
Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark
things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use
:-(
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Comments
I remember well my first 1200 baud modem and bbs'ing at all hours. Even paying for a 2nd dedicated computer line just for going onto bbs's before the internet.
JOE Panther
2021-10-15 11:06:08 +0000 UTC@Scrupulous_Londini. Old school my friend
The Great LonDini
2021-09-24 14:08:54 +0000 UTC@Scrupulous_Londini.
The Great LonDini
2021-09-24 14:08:30 +0000 UTCThis brings me back to my first 1200 baud modem, being on a BBS. Before the Internet connected by forwarding phone numbers to one server.
Scrupulous_Londini
2021-09-23 22:12:22 +0000 UTCThank you, Hafid!
The Great LonDini
2021-09-21 13:56:57 +0000 UTCThis is pretty cool. Really like history info like this. And I feel young again as this, :) is older than I am. Woooo. #winning.
Hafid Cristobal
2021-09-19 17:30:03 +0000 UTC
