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Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

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Re: Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

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Post by Diederich »

katurian wrote: post #56
jgw wrote: post #27

It makes me a bit of a luddite (and a heck of a curmudgeon), but it always makes me a little sad when good ol' ASCII smileys are rendered all fancy-like. There's something charming and hackerish about showing it as a 7-bit glyph. I think the Internet fundamentally changed when that happened. Tangentially-related, I can't fathom why someone would post YouTube videos of `telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl`.

I'm with you. I put a space between the : and the ) to prevent the graphic emoji : )

Going the other way often works too! (:

Re: Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

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Post by happy-go-lucky »

tetraodonpuffer wrote: post #12
nathancahill wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

would be interesting to know where that one started...

TIL it's a kaomoji :-)

Here's an article by a regular user of the emoticon http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/the-be...

And a wiki about those characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana

Re: Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

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Post by mfoy_ »

Crespyl wrote: post #50
soneca wrote: post #45

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?

Well, there is /r/hackernews...

It's just a mirror of submissions... Actually kind of useful if you want to search for a submission that you saw on HN a while ago.

Re: Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

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Post by [deleted] »

wodenokoto wrote: post #29
tetraodonpuffer wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

would be interesting to know where that one started...

There is a whole parallel smiley history from Asia that either hasn't been documented as well as the western smileys or simply hasn't been translated. The notable thing about asian smileys is that they have the same horizon as the text, whereas western smileys needs to be turned 90 degrees. Compare (^.^) with :-) So given that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is both unicode and horizontal indicates that it is either from Asia or came to b…

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Re: Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

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Post by kelvich »

Nabokov's interview. The New York Times [1969]

     -- How  do you rank yourself among writers
     (living) and of the immediate past?

     -- I often think there should exist a  special  typographical
     sign  for  a  smile -- some sort of concave mark,
     a supine round bracket, which I would now like to
     trace in reply to your question.

Re: Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

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Post by jazzyb »

katurian wrote: post #56
jgw wrote: post #27

It makes me a bit of a luddite (and a heck of a curmudgeon), but it always makes me a little sad when good ol' ASCII smileys are rendered all fancy-like. There's something charming and hackerish about showing it as a 7-bit glyph. I think the Internet fundamentally changed when that happened. Tangentially-related, I can't fathom why someone would post YouTube videos of `telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl`.

I'm with you. I put a space between the : and the ) to prevent the graphic emoji : )

Pasting bash snippets into chat is so frustrating when clients try to render emojis :/

Re: Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

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Post by err4nt »

Ntrails wrote: post #40
wodenokoto wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a whole parallel smiley history from Asia that either hasn't been documented as well as the western smileys or simply hasn't been translated. The notable thing about asian smileys is that they have the same horizon as the text, whereas western smileys needs to be turned 90 degrees. Compare (^.^) with :-) So given that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is both unicode and horizontal indicates that it is either from Asia or came to b…

I done screwed up. I hope nobody saw... >_> >_ (I always felt like finding some of these alt smilies increased expressiveness)

m =^_^= m

Re: Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

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Post by Finnucane »

f_allwein wrote: post #43
anotheryou wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

did you mean that as a joke? or do you really think it's nice? <:-)

I think it's cool to see this more or less live in action, and in the original context, yes (not sure what the emoji is for that). With many terms/ expressions, it's very unclear where they originated, so if this is indeed the first usage, it is nice to see.

Probably the first time online. There are print antecedents to online emoticons.

Re: Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

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Post by nicky0 »

yitchelle wrote: post #60

Interestingly, before I read this post and the comments, I have always thought that :-) means a smiling face. Ie, to convey a sense of a smile after writing a message. Not a "I am joking" message. Well, I learned something today.

I beleive the modern usage is no longer to denote a joke. Merely to express a smile.
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