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Thread ID: 24793 2002-09-19 02:59:00 Utterly OT - Smiley's birthday today (20th) robo (205) Press F1
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80946 2002-09-19 07:33:00 stupid square brackets round the wrong way :D

Mike.
Mike (15)
80947 2002-09-19 07:53:00 Quite write Mike. But it's one standard that so many people have "improved" that I suppose I left the Standard out subconsciously. The worst was one Commodore perpetrated, usually referred to as "Pet ASCII" (used in the Pet 4k "computers". I used stronger language when I expressed my opinion. Graham L (2)
80948 2002-09-19 08:47:00 I really like the old text based ones if they're in good font ; - )

One thing that really annoys me is when there is no option to turn emoticons off for the message that yourself sends.

It's really annoying when you end up with C:\ being changed or f(x)=3x^2
-=JM=- (16)
80949 2002-09-19 11:24:00 Hi Jen C.

I see that the site you quoted gives a bit more info. and puts the year as 1972:

In 1972 Franklin Loufrani, a journalist, created a simple concept for European newspapers, sideways type icons to communicate emotions--emoticons. He gave his original icon :) the name of "Smiley". Smiley quickly spread across the world. Other emoticons followed Smiley.

Cheers. :)
exLL (515)
80950 2002-09-20 06:33:00 So it's actually 30 years old? Sounds more like it. There are cellphones that can do emoticons now. <sigh> robo (205)
80951 2002-09-20 07:27:00 Rob, get with it. Cellphones have been doing graphical moticons for a few years now. But they only tend to work on similar phones ie not cross platform compatible... SoniKalien (792)
80952 2002-09-20 14:31:00 It seems that Smiley was 20yrs old after all, not 30yrs.

(See posting Friday Nite News)

Refer CNN Site (www.cnn.com)
exLL (515)
80953 2002-09-20 22:09:00 Sounds like we have some controversy, like what country Russell Crowe comes from or where the pavlova was invented. robo (205)
80954 2002-09-20 22:15:00 Australia! :D mark c (247)
80955 2002-09-21 02:58:00 Yea He must be from Australia, Because a New Zealander would not disgrace there country

lol but then who cares

:)
NathanTheKind (472)
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