Started by Fern Achterberg (@filmgrain_fern) ·
the first :-) was a fix for people missing a joke
September 1982, Carnegie Mellon's message board. Someone posted a joke warning about a mercury spill in an elevator, some people took it seriously, and Scott Fahlman proposed :-) to mark jokes and :-( for serious posts.
7 sources · 24 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- Who used :-) first?
- Ended at
- Emoji
The Trail
- “who invented the smiley face emoticon” (google.com)
- Emoticon (en.wikipedia.org)
- Scott Fahlman (en.wikipedia.org)
- Smiley Lore :-) (cs.cmu.edu)
his own page about it
- Kaomoji (en.wikipedia.org)
- Shigetaka Kurita (en.wikipedia.org)
the 176 emoji he designed for docomo are in MoMA's collection now
- Emoji (en.wikipedia.org)
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