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Sept. 19, 1982: Can't You Take a Joke? :-)

Posted September 19, 2011 8:19 AM

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Scott Fahlman posts an electronic message proposing :-) as a character sequence for joke markers. He's the acknowledged originator of the ASCII-based emoticon.

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09/19/2011 9:03 AM

:-)

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09/20/2011 1:38 PM

Or (-: for those who refuse to tilt their head to the left.

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09/19/2011 10:01 AM

I sure as @#$% can!

;-)

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09/19/2011 10:16 AM

Coffee (or tea for those across the pond) anyone?

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Coffee will do fine. One sugar, please.

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Rebel. ;-)
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:-o

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09/19/2011 10:58 AM

What was that? I had my headphone on. d(^_^)b

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>("~")<

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:°()>

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09/19/2011 10:32 PM

Most all of mine are 'devilish tounge-in-cheek'

Wink and a smirk..... Thank you!!!

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09/20/2011 11:04 AM

I don't believe it.

I can't prove it, but I'd be willing to bet that for as long as typewriters were used, someone noticed that they could make a smiley face character long before 1982.

Aha!!!! Found one possible case before I ran out of edit time.

Here

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Let's go a hundred years earlier,

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I'm thinking that is kind of funny. --· ·- ··-· --- ·-· - --· ·- -!

I think that is right

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Or Beethoven: ..._

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