Friday, September 19, 2008

Today is An Important Date in E-History...

... because 26 years ago to the day, Carnegie Mellon professor Scott E. Fahlman was the first person ever to post ':-)' on an online message board. Technically though, the concept was first put into use in 1881 by none other than Ambrose Bierce using hand-set type to write ' \_/ ' which he referred to as a 'snigger point'. That never really caught on, did it?

4 comments:

Brainpiece.1000101 said...

I question the validity of your mother's parentage \_/

Bulltrout said...
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Bulltrout said...

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Bulltrout said...

sciencedammit that didn't work at all how it was supposed to.