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  • Happy 30th birthday,smiley !
     OP - September 21, 2012, 07:39 AM
       
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    Attention, Internet addicts: There's a familiar face you should be greeting a happy 30th birthday. It's none other than the ever-smiling emoticon Smiley
     
    The inventor of the emoticon, university professor Scott Fahlman, recalled the now-familiar sideways face's humble roots as an in-house joke among academic colleagues.

       "Given the nature of the community (on the university's online bulletin boards), a good many of the posts were humorous (or attempted humor). The problem was that if someone made a sarcastic remark, a few readers would fail to get the joke, and each of them would post a lengthy diatribe in response," said Fahlman, a Carnegie Mellon University professor, in a statement marking the emoticon's 30th birthday on September 19.

    "That would stir up more people with more responses, and soon the original thread of the discussion was buried. In at least one case, a humorous remark was interpreted by someone as a serious safety warning," he noted.
     
    Fahlman said the problem prompted some to suggest that posts meant as a joke were to be explicitly marked.
     
    While many "joke markers" were suggested, he settled on using a sequence of text-based characters - as bulletin boards at the time could handle only ASCII characters.

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    The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
                                   Thomas Paine

    Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored !- Aldous Huxley
  • Re: Happy 30th birthday,smiley !
     Reply #1 - September 21, 2012, 08:05 AM
    I hate you. I shun you. Naff off.
  • Re: Happy 30th birthday,smiley !
     Reply #2 - September 21, 2012, 08:14 AM
     Cheesy Cheesy Why FFS? Why?  Huh? mysmilie_977


    The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
                                   Thomas Paine

    Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored !- Aldous Huxley
  • Re: Happy 30th birthday,smiley !
     Reply #3 - September 21, 2012, 08:29 AM
    Happy birthday smiley, you have made a huge difference to my life and helped prevent many an argument that my sarcasm might have triggered in misunderstanding.  You are a star.   cool2
    Inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit.
  • Re: Happy 30th birthday,smiley !
     Reply #4 - September 21, 2012, 08:44 AM
    Quote from: hypocrucifier on September 21, 2012, 08:14 AM
    Cheesy Cheesy Why FFS? Why?  Huh? mysmilie_977

    Ever seen me use a smiley?
  • Re: Happy 30th birthday,smiley !
     Reply #5 - September 21, 2012, 12:10 PM

    I wish there was a smiley for schadenfreude
    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: Happy 30th birthday,smiley !
     Reply #6 - September 21, 2012, 12:20 PM
    Quote from: billy on September 21, 2012, 12:10 PM
    I wish there was a smiley for schadenfreude



      Huh? someone else is thinking along the same lines too !

    http://snideties.blogspot.in/2011/07/whats-emoticon-for-schadenfreude.html


    The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
                                   Thomas Paine

    Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored !- Aldous Huxley
  • Re: Happy 30th birthday,smiley !
     Reply #7 - September 21, 2012, 12:30 PM


    [ 8-D ]~~~~~:-/

    OK so what that represents is this.

    The smiley on the right is the face you present to the world when you learn about the misfortune of someone else. Pretending sympathy and empathy and tact.

    the dots connecting it to the other emoticons are leading to a thought bubble like in comic strips, inside of which is a face with eyes wide open and a beaming smile of delight, the true emotion that person feels
    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: Happy 30th birthday,smiley !
     Reply #8 - September 21, 2012, 12:56 PM
    But I wonder why you brought this up ?  Huh?


    The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
                                   Thomas Paine

    Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored !- Aldous Huxley
  • Re: Happy 30th birthday,smiley !
     Reply #9 - September 21, 2012, 01:11 PM

    Because I just wondered
    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: Happy 30th birthday,smiley !
     Reply #10 - September 21, 2012, 01:32 PM
    Quote from: David on September 21, 2012, 08:44 AM
    Ever seen me use a smiley?  Smiley

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