origin of the ASCII smiley?

[Mark Mandel]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Benjamin Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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

Oh, heck, and I *read* that LLog, too! (hides head in shame)


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