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

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Fri Sep 13 13:49:00 2002

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Eric Smith wrote:

> > Is that the article that claims that no smiley's were ever used before
> > 1982?
>
> He doesn't claim that. He claims that he independently invented it and
> started the use of it on the Internet.

So prior use with computers would not count?
How about Arpanet?
Received on Fri Sep 13 2002 - 13:49:00 BST