Wow, this is interesting! Smileys surely date back. I hope our LUG threads
are also archived and 100 years from now when another elite computer
civilization is in force, they will be able to retrieve our threads =)

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:38 PM, [email protected] <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Interesting titbit of information. It's not the oldest usage of a smiley,
> though. The oldest one I know of is this one: —)
>
> The dash represents a tongue, and the wane-paren represents a cheek. This
> is before *electricity* was proven to be more than a fad, mind you; it was
> used in handwritten letters. Not sure how popular it was, but it was used,
> nonetheless.
>
> Simon Vass <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm
>>
>>
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