Original Smily

[Lakie]

I stumbled across this and found it interesting, its the first occurance of smilies....

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm

for something so relaxed i didnt figure it to be so 'formal' if you know what i mean..

[Grenademan]

Interesting...havent seen the nuclear smily before (@=)

or the flaming one ~=

[Scott]

You have to remember that it was way back in 82', when there were no kids online .

[.enfo.]

o>-<|=

that's supposed to be a woman ?,
82 eh, I wonder how many websites there were, total.

[Terry]

back then they were coding on slates m8

[Steve]

hehe good read Mike! :-)

message boards changed a bit then?

(:-) for messages dealing with bicycle helmets
@= for messages dealing with nuclear war
<:-) for dumb questions
oo for somebody's head-lights are on messages
o>-<|= for messages of interest to women
~= a candle, to annotate flaming messages

[Sen]

Usually, in my MSN convos, the "<:-)" smiley would mean something else completely different... usually implying to an increase in sexual thoughts.

[Chrispy]

Hmm... the woman one is kinda cool, hehe...

I've got one: #:-)~

A guy with messy hair and a goatee (message from a redneck? Lol!).

Chris