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smile (Smiling)
=) (Smiling)
(^^) (Smiling)
(^-^) (Smiling)
(",) (Smiling)
biggrin (Big smile)
;] (Winking)
neutral (Neutral Expression)
:/ (Partial half smile)
sad (Frowning)
:'( (Crying)
smile (Smiley with nose)
surprised (Talking/Surprised)
(," wink (Worried/Uncertain)
:s (Worried/Uncertain)
:* (Kissing smilie)
*< surprised ) (party smile)
:p (Poking his tongue out)
(O_o) (Surprise)
crying (Manga cry)(For Sans-Serif fonts)
Origin
The very earliest known examples of the graphic are attributed to Ishwar, who devised the face in 1963 for a Worcester, Massachusetts, USA-based insurance firm, State Mutual Life Assurance. Ball never attempted to use, promote or trademark the image; it fell into the public domain in the United States before that could be accomplished. As a result, Ball never made any profit for the iconic image he allegedly created beyond his initial $45 fee.
David Stern of David Stern Inc., a Seattle-based advertising agency also claimed to have invented the smiley. Stern reportedly developed his version in 1967 as part of an ad campaign for Washington Mutual, but says he did not think to trademark it.
The two original text smileys, smile to indicate a joke and sad to mark things that are not a joke were invented on September 19, 1982 by Scott E. Fahlman, a research professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Computer Science. His original post at the CMU CS general board, where he suggested the use of the smileys, was retrieved on September 10, 2002 by Jeff Baird from an October 1982 backup tape of the spice vax (cmu-750x) as proof to support the claim. [4]
The reverse, or left-handed, smileys (-: have also gained popularity for being a way to avoid having text smileys converted to graphical representations in certain settings such as instant messaging programs.
More recently, small, in-line graphical images of smileys and other faces have become popular, especially on forums:
 Baby Snow Leopard · Sat Nov 24, 2007 @ 07:54pm · 0 Comments |
