On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> 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!
I saw them in comments in IBM 360 listings which were at least 20 years
old when I saw them in about 1984.
Peace... Sridhar
Received on Mon Sep 16 2002 - 02:10:00 BST