Wednesday, September 19, 2018

On This Day

On this day in 1982 Carnegie-Mellon computer scientist Scott Fahlman first proposed the use of the emoticons :-) and :-( to mark tone in electronic communications, posting his recommendation to the university’s bulletin board. But long before this, in 1881, humour magazine Puck used punctuation to denote emotions:


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