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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. This is proof! by km790816 · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...that people at Microsoft do inovate!

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    A speech...
  2. Re:may god forgive him for what he has unleashed by jandrese · · Score: 1, Troll

    I think it's too late. He already comes off as an asshole... Maybe the entire post was ment to be sarcasm? The world will never know.

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    I read the internet for the articles.
  3. Re:I propose a new search by The+Bungi · · Score: 0, Troll
    And I propose than when we find him, we kill him. I suggest we start our search in India.

    While we're at it, we'll probably run into the asswipe that came up with 'r' instead of 'are'; 'thx' instead of 'thanks' and 'pls' or 'plz' instead of 'please'. We can kill them too.

    Only then will the world be safe.

    :-)

  4. Evolution of GRAMMAR! :^) by pepperino · · Score: 0, Troll

    evry1 nos that w/o im on the net that u would not have the kewl stuff 2day that evry1 reads and I 4 1 could not do w/o all the kewl smiley faces that make me smile IRL when I read the kewl stuff my frend mails me hahaha look its a frog in a blender LOL LMAO :)