[HN Gopher] Smiley Lore :-) (2002)
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Smiley Lore :-) (2002)
Author : geox
Score : 45 points
Date : 2021-12-09 12:06 UTC (1 days ago)
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| Zababa wrote:
| > Various "joke markers" were suggested, and in the midst of that
| discussion it occurred to me that the character sequence :-)
| would be an elegant solution - one that could be handled by the
| ASCII-based computer terminals of the day. So I suggested that.
| In the same post, I also suggested the use of :-( to indicate
| that a message was meant to be taken seriously, though that
| symbol quickly evolved into a marker for displeasure,
| frustration, or anger.
|
| Fortunately, in ASCII we have a neutral spot between ( and ). I
| present to you the neutral marker: :-|
| trentgreene wrote:
| IIRC, Wittgenstein describes the usage of type to create a smile
| face in one of his writings and provides an example (I want to
| say I saw this in Culture and Value, a collection released in
| 1970). He died in 1951.
|
| This is of course, not to throw shade on the authors claim to
| original invention. I believe that without doubt :)
| andai wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#Precursors
|
| > Modern emoticons were not the first instances of :) or :-)
| being used in text.
|
| > In 1648, poet Robert Herrick wrote the lines:
| Tumble me down, and I will sit Upon my ruins, (smiling
| yet:)
| trentgreene wrote:
| Dope! That is... older than I expected
| mordechai9000 wrote:
| > Shakespeare's work is full of cliches and his spelling was
| atrocious. :-)
|
| How could you not be aware that spelling was not standardized at
| the time? Does this person know nothing about the history of the
| English language?
|
| /s and :) should be obvious here, but I am including them anyway,
| just to be safe. I don't want to be accused of old fashioned
| trolling, and starting a flame war.
| wolfhumble wrote:
| > /s and :) should be obvious here, but I am including them
| anyway, just to be safe. I don't want to be accused of old
| fashioned trolling, and starting a flame war.
|
| If so you should be denoting it with the appropriate ~= sign:
|
| "~= a candle, to annotate flaming messages"
|
| :-)
| ravi-delia wrote:
| I'm not sure if we should be encouraging all this candle
| talk, wouldn't want to ruin another elevator.
| beamatronic wrote:
| :-)
| kingcharles wrote:
| ROFL
| macrolocal wrote:
| Adjacently, this is fun:
|
| https://github.com/mcdwayne/CIA-Emoji-WP-Plugin/blob/master/...
|
| _
| omneity wrote:
| Did you know windows has a shortcut for these? Win + . then
| select the second tab (first is for emojis).
|
| Seemingly called Kaomojis.
|
| My personal favorite (with a special background of its own,
| never thought of dropping it in HN some day):
|
| tth_tth
| hereforphone wrote:
| When I first got online we did this to smile: <G>
| at_a_remove wrote:
| At one point, new-on-the-scene O'Reilly Books put out a very
| small book of "smileys," including buttons. I want to say 1992 or
| 1993. I wonder if I still have it.
| kingcharles wrote:
| In the early-to-mid 90s there were hundreds of emoticon +
| acronym books. They were marketed as essential reading for
| anyone joining the Internet.
|
| They might be collector's items now. The sort of thing you
| would find in the window of the Blast From The Past store.
|
| https://backtothefuture.fandom.com/wiki/Blast_from_the_Past
| davesque wrote:
| I actually have a vague memory of the first time I realized that
| the couple of characters that were appearing before me on the
| screen were meant to represent a smiley face turned sideways. It
| was some time in the mid 90s in Boulder, CO. Boulder Valley
| School District had a program for students to request an account
| on a System V server that was being hosted up at the University
| of Colorado campus in the engineering center. A bunch of us had
| gotten accounts and were exchanging emails with the pine email
| client. A friend sent me an email that included ":)". Since I was
| using a terminal program to view emails, I had grown accustomed
| to seeing various control or syntax characters being printed out
| for different reasons. I assumed what I was seeing was something
| like that. Perhaps a control character that was meant to control
| bold font being accidentally printed out. Eventually, I realized
| it was a smiley face.
| anyfoo wrote:
| My recollection is even more vague, but I think it was when
| trying out early versions of Linux and browsing the
| documentation. I, too, probably had a fleeting thought of
| "weird control characters, must be a UNIX thing", before it
| finally hit me. I don't remember when and where exactly, but I
| do remember the sudden realization.
| kingcharles wrote:
| > It's interesting to note that Microsoft and AOL now intercept
| these character strings and turn them into little pictures.
|
| "Little pictures".
|
| Who knew this is how it would end?
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emoji_Movie
|
| > Patrick Stewart as Poop
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