Emoticons in 1881 according to the QI Elves

[Ben Zimmer]

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:43 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
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> The QI Elves @qikipedia
> In 1881, US humour magazine Puck published the world's first
> emoticons. http://pic.twitter.com/G4z9ZpFEuZ
> 9:33 a.m. - Mar 5, 2013

For Puck's "Typographical Art" and other proto-emoticons, see:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/emoticons-at-30-or-is-it-45-or-125-or-131/

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