The First Smiley?

[Grant Barrett]

On Friday, Sep 13, 2002, at 08:19 America/New_York, Jesse Sheidlower
wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 07:45:47AM -0400, Grant Barrett wrote:
>> A Usenet post which contains the supposed first use of :) as a smiley
>> or emoticon, from 19 September 1982,  has been uncovered.
>>
>> http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html
>
> I thought Barry had posted an example from a
> newspaper ad from the 1950s at one point.

That's right. My post was missing a key word: the first *online*
smiley. Barry's post is here;

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0110B&L=ads-l&P=R4596

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