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The First Smiley :-)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cave-paintings-be-damned dept.

An anonymous reader points to this excellent bit of online archaeology -- Mike Jones' effort to find the first online smiley. A bit from the site: "After a significant effort to locate it, on September 10, 2002 the original post made by Scott Fahlman on CMU CS general bboard was retrieved by Jeff Baird from an October 1982 backup tape of the spice vax (cmu-750x)." Interesting methodology and a lot of work went into the search -- shades of the Dead Media Project.

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  1. Re:First A$$ in ascii by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    whats funny is thats the size of your balls, you homo nerd faggit

  2. Anyone notice.... by T3kno · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The address of the site that points to this!? research.microsoft.com, is that where the 50 bil goes, into finding where the first smily came from? Holy crap, I now know why Windows is the steaming pile of horse excrement that it is.

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  3. Alas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If only Mark Twain had still ben alive. Then he could have used smilies in his satirical prose, since there's no way for the written word to denote humor or sarcasm.