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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. Making history on /. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here is slashdots first ( 0 )( 0 ) set of knockers.

  2. lmfao by fluxrad · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    i'm sorry, but i have to know.

    when was the first penis bird used?

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  3. What about this emoticion? by mshiltonj · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How do you convey "holding pinky finger to chin with one eyebrow raised, like Dr. Evil"? What's that emoticon?

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  4. Re:And I've made it my mission... by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Thus proving that people can be very sensitive when it comes to the rights of their own groups and still be oblivious assholes when it comes to the rights of others. :/ (Obligatory emoticon, for the story)

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