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happy birthday Smiley!

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Wow, it seems the emoticon (yep, like this one :-) is going to get in his 25th birthday!

The first time someone used an ASCII chars combination to describe a feeling was back in 1982, 19th September: the artist was Scott Fahlman, a research professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pensnylvania, USA. Here it's the original thread where Scott used the first "smiley".

I was speaking yesterday with Rosarossa, trough Skype, about emoticons and, specially, about how much I hate the gif version of the emoticons or - even worse - the animated version. I think that you've somehow to respect the roots, the traditions: I mean, the smiley, specially in a cute font, are soooo nice.

Why do you have to bother your chatmates with colors, animations and - grrrr - sounds?? Com'on, we don't need that!

Written by orangeek

Tuesday 18 September 2007 at 7:59 PM

Posted in pop, tech

ascii, asciiart, emoticons, inet, internet, smiley

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  1. eccomi! come ti dicevo ieri, alcune emoticons di msn messenger sono davvero buffe. i suoni invece stanno antipatici pure a me.
    ma per esempio odio le faccine che si trovano sui nokia di ultima generazione, brutte e minuscole, nel mio "vecchio" 6233 erano pressoché indecifrabili

    RosaRossa

    Tuesday 18 September 2007 at 8:55 PM

  2. La vera rivelazione del thread dello smile non e` lo smile, ma questa richiesta:

    03-Oct-82 23:43 Guy Jacobson at CMU-780G Holding a chainsaw?? :-)

    Does anyone have a picture of R2D2 holding a seed auger in TeX format?

    Or how about a rendering of Yoda with a lathe for use with nroff?

    Any pointers to digitized images of short, cute aliens holding powertools would be greatly appreciated.


    nel 1982 erano completamente pazzi, evidentemente.

    dasnake

    Wednesday 19 September 2007 at 3:47 AM

  3. concordo!
    è bello pensare però che molte "invenzioni" di internet vengono da tipi del genere... :)

    orangeek

    Wednesday 19 September 2007 at 9:11 AM

  4. viva gli smileys con i font.
    A morte i cosi grafici, suoni, cazzate varie ed il loro trionfo glorificato : myspace.

    david

    david

    Wednesday 19 September 2007 at 2:27 PM

  5. tsk myspace e` per i weirdos ormai, il vero fenomeno del sano ragazzino bianco e` facebook

    dasnake

    Saturday 22 September 2007 at 8:55 PM

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