Wednesday, March 17, 2004
"Joke" Conversation Thread in which the :-) Was Invented
The original context in which the smiley first arose has been excavated! (via blog-fu)
The smiley was invented in 1982. Which means that everybody's favorite Unicode characters U+263A and U+263B (☺ and ☻) are actually older: like a lot of the 2600 range, they were obviously collected into Unicode from the MS-DOS "OEM" character set, which goes back to the origins of the IBM PC in 1980 or before.
The smiley was invented in 1982. Which means that everybody's favorite Unicode characters U+263A and U+263B (☺ and ☻) are actually older: like a lot of the 2600 range, they were obviously collected into Unicode from the MS-DOS "OEM" character set, which goes back to the origins of the IBM PC in 1980 or before.
