Tag: Scott Fahlman
Break out the lambrini, it's the emoticon's 25th birthday today
Emoticons. Love ’em or hate ’em, you can’t deny you’ve used them at least once, even if it was ironically. Can you believe they were first documented 25 years ago? I bet all the 🙂 and even the 🙁 are out on the town today, boozing hard and fast, falling in and out of nightclubs as they celebrate their 25th birthday. Expect to see some very hung-over emoticons online tomorrow…
Apparently in a forum discussion on September 19th, 1982 (I didn’t even think the ‘tinternet was around then for civillians, let alone had ‘forums’)…