Thirty years ago Wednesday, noted Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist Professor Scott Fahlman typed out the first sideways smiley face composed entirely of keyboard characters and posted it ...
In the early days of the internet, computer scientist Scott Fahlman ran into a problem on Carnegie Mellon University’s online bulletin boards. People used the bulletin boards — a kind of primitive ...
Emotion is something that is incredibly difficult to get across in a digital format. Aside from ending your texts with “lol” to appear less threatening, or ending a tweet with “/s” to indicate sarcasm ...
On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon professor Dr. Scott Fahlman invented the first emoticon: the humble smiley. Narratively has the exact message: Every September 19 — that's today, by the way — ...
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Attention teens and the adults that act like them: Facebook has added emoticons to Chat on the web. While before you could use text like :) to create a smile or even :putnam: to show a picture of an ...
In this 2016 photo taken in New York, Julie Zhuo, product design director at Facebook, demonstrates new emoji-like stickers customers will be able to press in addition to the like button. (AP ...