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I see one Guy Steele in that thread. Is he the Guy Steele? Glancing wikipedia suggests he was asst prof at CMU around that time. Just curious.
Other notable folks I recognized in the thread:
* Dave Touretzky - author of a well-regarded Lisp textbook in its day
* Masaru Tomita - the guy who invented the GLR parser
Interesting thing to note is that before Fahlman suggested ":-)" symbol, Leonard Hamey suggested "{#}" (see 17-Sep-82 17:42 post). After that, someone suggested "\__/" (see 20-Sep-82 17:56 post). But only ":-)" gained popularity. It is funny to imagine how emoticons ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons ) would look today if one of alternative symbols was accepted?
I don't understand "{#}" and "\__/". Are they supposed to be arbitrary markers, or interpreted in some way?
19-Sep-82 11:44, Scott E Fahlman invents the ':-)'. Nice. :-)
did you mean that as a joke? or do you really think it's nice? <:-)
Interesting thing to note is that before Fahlman suggested ":-)" symbol, Leonard Hamey suggested "{#}" (see 17-Sep-82 17:42 post). After that, someone suggested "\__/" (see 20-Sep-82 17:56 post). But only ":-)" gained popularity. It is funny to imagine how emoticons ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons ) would look today if one of alternative symbols was accepted?
I don't understand "{#}" and "\__/". Are they supposed to be arbitrary markers, or interpreted in some way?
I think.
Have anyone thought about creating a separate HN for jokes?
Interesting thing to note is that before Fahlman suggested ":-)" symbol, Leonard Hamey suggested "{#}" (see 17-Sep-82 17:42 post). After that, someone suggested "\__/" (see 20-Sep-82 17:56 post). But only ":-)" gained popularity. It is funny to imagine how emoticons ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons ) would look today if one of alternative symbols was accepted?
I don't understand "{#}" and "\__/". Are they supposed to be arbitrary markers, or interpreted in some way?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Past what? Topics interesting to women? Though I agree that this emoticon is ugly and it took me some time to understand what it symbolizes.
Past the point where we thought that ideas should be or even can be segmented into those interesting to women vs those interesting to men, which is a rather silly idea rooted in gender unfounded stereotypes and possibly a bit of sexism.
https://m.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes
It's still acceptable to categorize clothing stores by sex as well.
Interesting thing to note is that before Fahlman suggested ":-)" symbol, Leonard Hamey suggested "{#}" (see 17-Sep-82 17:42 post). After that, someone suggested "\__/" (see 20-Sep-82 17:56 post). But only ":-)" gained popularity. It is funny to imagine how emoticons ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons ) would look today if one of alternative symbols was accepted?
I don't understand "{#}" and "\__/". Are they supposed to be arbitrary markers, or interpreted in some way?
And the proposal to have a separate channel to jokes is as old as the smiley. There is always that guy. Have anyone thought about creating a separate HN for jokes?