origin of the ASCII smiley?

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Thu Apr 24 01:49:35 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> My sister sent me this link.
>
>  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm

Some prehistory here:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004935.html


--Ben Zimmer

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