"The smiley :-) and its many variants are an important (and fun!) part of the worldwide online social culture -- allowing emotions to be conveyed in plain text. It has been in widespread use since the early '80s, when it was first proposed. Yet the original message in which the smiley was invented had been lost -- until now. :-) After a significant effort to locate it, on September 10, 2002 the original post made by Scott Fahlman on CMU CS general bboard was retrieved by Jeff Baird from an October 1982 backup tape of the spice vax (cmu-750x)."
By: SpunOne | Aug 6th, 2006 (4:39 PM) | Thanks: superpope
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Capn Prow1er is in command of this failboat
Aug 6th, 2006 (4:56 PM)
What? You mean that old AOL commercial wasn't the first?
Capn Prow1er is in command of this failboat
Aug 6th, 2006 (4:57 PM)
jpkeates Error: Information for this account is currently unavailable
Aug 6th, 2006 (5:21 PM)
They mean something?
You can tip your had sideways and it's almost like a picture.
I just thought people were dyslexic.
velifer - time flies like a banana, fruit flies have nothing to lose but their chains
Aug 6th, 2006 (6:18 PM)
Now the world knows. We can trace all the raging and annoying stupidity on the net back to a single individual.
Scott E. Falman, wherever you are, be afraid. Be very afraid.
I don't have time to read all that...did they accept Scott's proposal?
Q(-.-Q) wanna fight about it? Q(-.-Q)
Arliss - too close for missiles, switching to beavers
Aug 6th, 2006 (8:03 PM)
()_______))_________________}}}~~~~~~~~
WonkerSmack is making penis statue with vegitable
Aug 6th, 2006 (11:04 PM)
akito12345 said:
Q(-.-Q) wanna fight about it? Q(-.-Q)
WIN
This is your boobs ( o v o )
This is your boobs on total recall ( o v o v o )
(. | .)
now that is fine art
Mike Jones (who
hahahahaha
WHO??!! MIKE JONES!!!
WHO?!!
skies - you all look up to me
Aug 7th, 2006 (10:04 PM)
(((____CRAYOLA_____(((( >
omegavolt is only here for the nachos
Aug 7th, 2006 (11:20 PM)
</ / / / / / / / / / / / /#~~~~~
Dont Bogart that J.
This is your boobs on total recall ( o v o v o )
Awesome.
Capn Prow1er is in command of this failboat
Aug 8th, 2006 (11:51 AM)
akito12345 said:
Q(-.-Q) wanna fight about it? Q(-.-Q)
Bring it on! Q_(°o°Q)
Charlemagne ..complete with his own 640K of memory
Aug 9th, 2006 (1:14 AM)
What? You mean that old AOL commercial wasn't the first?
Oh Come on, everyoe knows that Steve Case (with Al Gore's help) the "internet."
And just a aside, the "internet" is just the content that AOL does not deem worthy for it's customers.
