Almost OT?: The origin of the smiley emoticon...

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Fri Sep 13 13:35:00 2002

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, David Woyciesjes wrote:
> I saw this on The Register's US web site (http://www.theregus.com/) today...
> First ever smiley found, preserved for posterity
> - MS researcher and CMU staff find backup tape
> 13 September 2002 4:33am
> http://www.theregus.com/content/6/26295.html

Is that the article that claims that no smiley's were ever used before
1982?
While I can not provide any proof of prior art, I saw them used
occasionally with 360 selectric terminal operations in 1970!

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Grumpy Ol' Fred        cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Fri Sep 13 2002 - 13:35:00 BST

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