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Re: Emoticon for irony--OT?
- To: Clayton Gary Lehmann <hqr@cox.net>
- From: Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>
- Subject: Re: Emoticon for irony--OT?
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:45:52 -0700
Awesome and informative post, Gary.......thanks. I'm forwarding it!
rick walker
On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Clayton Gary Lehmann wrote:
I found this page:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2002/sep/19/netnotes
with this text—interesting stuff . . .
1. Twenty years ago today a computer scientist from the Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA namedScott Fahlman
<http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/%7Esef/> first suggested the use of asmiley,
or emoticon
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,400686,00.html>, as a
way of expressing sarcasm of irony in emails to the humourously
challenged. ;-)
2. Fahlman's September 19 1982message
<http://research.microsoft.com/%7Embj/Smiley/Smiley.html> posted on a
university message board has gone down in internet folklore as the
year zero of smiley language. :-)
3. Fahlman explains the origins of the emoticon in his smiley lore
<http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/%7Esef/sefSmiley.htm>. The emoticon has
become so popular that an Emoticon News Bureau
<http://govschl.ndsu.nodak.edu/%7Ejodchris/luce/emoticons.html> has
been created to monitor events in the world of the smiley. :~/
4. Yet despite this momentous invention, Fahlman has never made a
penny from it
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/apr2001/nf20010423_785.htm>.
He did not realise what a popular new language he had invented on that
September day, he never thought to patent it or even to keep a record
of the day himself. :-(
5. However, a debate has arisen over whether Fahlman is the true
inventor of the smiley. According to the Internet Tip's brief history
of the smiley <http://www.internet-tips.net/Emoticons/>, a man called
Kevin MacKenzie sent the first smiley in an email on April 12 1979.
His emoticon was the symbol -) meaning "tongue in cheek". 8-]
6. No matter who invented it, the Hacker's Dictionary
<http://www.drbbs.com/jsw/jargon/jargon_20.html> describes the
emoticon as a vital way to prevent misunderstandings between hackers
that could lead to arguments and flame wars
<http://www.drbbs.com/jsw/jargon/jargon_21.html#TAG706>! :-0
7. Smileys have evolved so far that they are now used in everyday
internet conversations
<http://flamebyrd.digitalrice.com/quotes/smiley.html> along with other
abbreviations such as lol and brb. The Newbie Profile
<%20http://tgos.org/newbie/reading5.html> provides a useful, if
somewhat confusing guide to using smileys in messages. 8~/