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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. First Smiley! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    No wait, post. :)

  2. I had the first frown! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But no one cares. :(

  3. Here it is! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The first post smiley :-)

    1. Re:Here it is! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      hey! what kind of idiot modded this offtopic? it's obviously redundant, since there is another first post, which is actually the first pots, that contains a smiley. REDUNDANT, not offtopic. redundant.

  4. fp on the fp of a smiley about the smiley by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Maybe? :) :)

  5. HEy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hurry up punk-ass! I'm hungry! :)

  6. In all seriousness... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When did this first make its appearance in Internet history? :(

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

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

  8. First spam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They should sift through the email logs till they find the first account of a mass emailing for the purpose of selling something.

    1. Re:First spam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      All sorts of first spams from email, to usenet, to MUDs.

    2. Re:First spam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      why dont u ask hemos? i remember way back in '83 him posting in all the newsgroups wanting to sell himself so he could save up to buy some clean undies cuz all the poop would leak out of his anus and make his undies all dirty (too many ass rammings).

  9. WARNING CNN.COM LINK IN PARENT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    do not click on hyper link, thanks you

  10. Whatever happened to Natalie Portman and grits? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In the race for the best slashdot spammers... what ever happened to natalie portman and grits?

    1. Re:Whatever happened to Natalie Portman and grits? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      jimmy fallon fucked her, remember the mtv commericals?

  11. would comment but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i would comment on topic but a nigga just stole my tv.

  12. Re:Surprising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I really doubt this was an exhaustive search

  13. > (_(_ < by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    goatse, before (we all know the after)

  14. ZERG RUSH! KekekekekKEKEKEkekekeke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ^___________^
    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Your comment looks too much like ascii art.

  15. 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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  16. Interesting question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When I was a little kid, I'm talking 4 or 5 here, I used to get hours of entertainment out of bouncing a kickball type ball (inflated and extremely bouncy) around. Mimicking the sound the ball made when it hit concrete, I came up with "boing" - not having ever heard anyone else say that. The first time I heard it in widespread use I thought I was some sort of genuis, it wasn't until later that I figured out _everyone_ associates "boing" with bouncing.

  17. 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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  18. 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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