Who started it?
The Meebo blog has a post this morning about the origination of the emoticon. Check out the date on this post, discovered at Wikipedia, which may in fact be the original spec for da smileys.
19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman : - )
From: Scott E Fahlman
I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:
: - )
Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark
things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use
: - (
That make you feel old?
