Who invented emoticons?
Filed in archive Humor by Elwyn Jenkins on September 19, 2007
" characters. I suppose it was the first time I started using email in the 1980s. You know what I mean - the ubiquitous little string of three characters that when you twist your head on the side it looks like a smiling face.![]()
Well, there was an inventor of this "smiley" character set. It was Professor Scott E Fahlman who first used the set of characters in an email message on September the 19th, 1982, at 11:42 am.
What Fahlman proposed at the time was that this set of characters could be used in an email message as "joke markers", a way to indicate the emotion to be found after reading the following text. Language experts say that this set of characters and other ones invented following this, can display a range of emotions in an email that would otherwise be difficult to portray. We now know these little images as "emoticons" - icons to show emotions.
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