X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,9f08eeeacdbc2d35 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Dutch Dude Subject: Re: Contest: Win $5 for the best ASCII smile face! Date: 1996/04/04 Message-ID: <31648EAF.4722@fz.hse.nl>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 145808875 references: <0000042A00000C48@prostar.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Hogeschool Eindhoven mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: alt.ascii-art x-mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win16; I) Find your own at: the smileys! server http://www.atcom.co.at/atcom/smileys.htm -- A smiley :-) is a Happy Face on its side, an ironic twist that turns "Have a nice Day" into "Just Joking". Smileys are sideways because they are made up of characters typed on a computer keyboard. They offer sideways expression of some basic emotions that color and clarify a conversion via electronic mail (e-mail) and other forms of communication using computers. Smileys have caught the fancy of many clever, creative ( and obviously idle :-)) computer types who have expanded the expressive power of smileys to include concepts, activities, animals, caricatures of famous people, and other thingeys. David Sanderson has been called the "Noah Webster of Smileys" by the Wall Street Journal. His full collection of over 650 smileys, compiled over the years from e-mail messages and news postings, is on display in the reference section. Throughout are examples of how smileys are really used in typical e-mail conversations. This book also advances the state-of-the-art of smileys, including such innovations as Smiley Comics and Where's Smiley? Are smileys the creative expression of the high-tech culture? Or are they an aberration that reduces human writing to a soulless shorthand of silly symbols? Who really cares? ;-)