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Perhaps {#} would have evolved into Japanese-style emoticons like: (-_-) and (^.^)
If only we had a upside down '^' character, smaller than a 'v' though.
You mean like ⌣ U+2323?
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#72| I have a picture of ET holding a chainsaw in .press file format. The file exists in /usr/wah/public/etchainsaw.press on the IUS. :-)
I don't get it
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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)
Interesting that Japanese smileys show emotion via the eyes while the American-born ones show emotion via the mouth, which mirrors the respective cultural norms.
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#74Like most of the cultural inventions of virtual communities there was prior art on PLATO.
http://www.platohistory.org/blog/2012/09/plato-emoticons-rev...
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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…
> compare (^.^) with :-)
I have no mouth and I must smile
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#76Interestingly, 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.
At some point between 1982 and the late nineties ;) replaced :-) as the joke indicator. But with modern WhatsApp rendering ;) as a suggestive grin instead of a simple wink I imagine the current generation of teenagers has found a new innocent joke marker.
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Emojis are stunningly ugly to me, though I did appreciate throwing out the custom doge and Doom space marine ones at random when my team used Slack.
I find that they're often too cutesy or overstated. In Whatsapp for example, they come across as incredibly flirtatious.
The winking smile should be jokey but I can only interpret it as flirty nowadays ;)
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#78It 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`.
Emojis are stunningly ugly to me, though I did appreciate throwing out the custom doge and Doom space marine ones at random when my team used Slack.
I think it's a cultural thing - or more precisely, a non-culture-specific thing, which should be as unoffensive as possible.
Honestly, I don't envy those that design and publish emojis, it's a cultural minefield. :-) has no color, gender, outfit or what-have-you. There's been a lot of debate about the skin tone of e.g. the thumbs up emoji (which now comes in half a dozen colors if the relatively ambiguous / non-human yellow isn't to your needs), the gender of emojis depicting jobs, and the color of outfits of emojis depicting jobs.
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I'm with you. I put a space between the : and the ) to prevent the graphic emoji : )
Going the other way often works too! (:
Which looks like a bald person without a mouth to me :-)
Somehow I've become accustomed to 'read' emoji as tilting your head to the left. Turning the emoji around always reminds me of German books, which often have the title upside down on the book spine compared to English / Dutch books.
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#80Ah bulletin boards :)
For years I have been searching for a copy of Blue Board (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Board_(software)), a popular BBS program in the Vancouver, BC, Canada area written by the late Martin Sikes http://www.penmachine.com/martinsikes/
I even talked with the owner of Sota Software, the publisher, but I never heard anything back.
If anyone has a copy, PLEASE let me know! I've been wanting to setup a memorial telnet Blue Board site for decades now.