SMILEY FACES FOR EMAIL FULL
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SMILEY FACES FOR EMAIL FULL

Besides, Shakespeare’s work is full ofĬlichés and his spelling was atrocious. Same kind of sloppy prose that the rest of us do. Shakespeare were tossing off a quick note complaining about the lack ofĮmployee parking spaces near the Globe Theater, he might have produced the On boards have the literary skill of Shakespeare or Twain, and even those Smiley face has done more to degrade our written communication than to Writing, half the fun is in never being quite sure whether the author is And by labeling the remarks that are not meant to be taken seriously, Need to explicitly label their humorous comments. Very idea of the smiley face, pointing out that good writers should have no But this longer message must have come later – perhaps a later bboard post or an E-mail message that I sent toĭetailed post did not turn up in our search. Humor-marker in more detail, and suggested the :-) symbol, along with :-( to Remember writing a longer message in which I explained the need for a I apparently didn’t even read it over before posting, since a word or Ongoing discussion that involved many people. Which I suggested this thing was quite short and casual – just part of an Great to have this message back just in time for the 20 th In this successful quest, which I call the “Digital Coelacanth Project.” I am most grateful to all who participated Working tape drive that could read the ancient media, decoded the oldįormats, and did a lot of searching to find the actual posts. Heroic effort with the support and encouragement of Howard Wactlar, Bob Cosgrove, and David Livingston. Jeff Baird and the CMU CS facilities staff put in a “archeological dig” through our ancient backup tapes.

But in 2001-2002 Mike Jones of Microsoft sponsored a more serious Post on old backup tapes were unsuccessful. Late to easily retrieve the post, and the original message was lost for many The time I realized that this smiley-face phenomenon was going to be long-lastingĪnd that it would spread around the world as the Internet grew, it was too It’s interesting to note that Microsoft andĪOL now intercept these character strings and turn them into littleĭestroys the whimsical element of the original.

Variants seem to be in common use for actual communication.

SMILEY FACES FOR EMAIL PLUS

But only my two original smilies, plus the “ winky ” -) and the “ noseless” Open-mouthed surprise, person wearing glasses, Abraham Lincoln, Santa Claus,Ĭlever compilations has become a serious hobby for some people. Seeing the lists with dozens of “ smilies”: Keeping in touch with their old community.) Places continued to read our bboards as a way of (Some CMU alumni who had moved on to other Research labs via the primitive computer networks of the day. Quickly around Carnegie Mellon, and soon spread to other universities and Taken seriously, though that symbol quickly evolved into a marker for In the same post, I also suggested the use of :-( to indicate that a message was meant to be That discussion it occurred to me that the character sequence :-) would be anĮlegant solution – one that could be handled by the ASCII-based computer terminals of the day. Various “joke markers ” were suggested, and in the midst of This information when we talk in person or on the phone. After all, when using text-based onlineĬommunication, we lack the body language or tone-of-voice cues that convey To suggest (only half seriously) that maybe it would be a good idea toĮxplicitly mark posts that were not to be taken seriously. Interpreted by someone as a serious safety warning. In at least one case, a humorous remark was Responses, and soon the original thread of the discussion was buried. Would post a lengthy diatribe in response. Sarcastic remark, a few readers would fail to get the joke, and each of them Even in those days, extended “flame wars” were common.Ĭommunity, a good many of the posts were humorous (or attempted humor). Interest, ranging from politics to abortion to campus parking to keyboard Who does it belong to?” Other posts discussed topics of general Things like “I’ve just found a ring in the fifth-floor men’s room. The posts were serious: talk announcements, requests for information, and Place where faculty, staff, and students could discuss the weighty matters of Newsgroups, and they were an important social mechanism in the department – a Or at least I’m one of the inventors.Ĭomputer Science community at Carnegie Mellon was making heavy use of onlineīulletin boards or “ bboards”. Sideways “smiley face” (sometimes called an “emoticon”) that is commonly used About this, so I thought I’d put the information here, linked under my home page:

Smiley faces for email