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

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 6:12 PM UTC

johnward wrote: post #117

sippeangelo wrote: post #90

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My biggest problem with this is when the images auto-replacing your text emotes convey a completely different expression, and you have no control over it. Skype is the worst offender, where for example the ":3" cat-face gets replaced by an image of a whole cat, without a face at all. If you disable this "feature" in your options, it's only disabled on YOUR end. The receiving client will still convert your text into i…

Try sending a code snippet in any modern chat

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 6:59 PM UTC

dugluak wrote: post #83

love birds (@>

Post by more_original » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 7:24 PM UTC

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`.

Post by teddyh » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 7:40 PM UTC

calt wrote: post #91

jobigoud wrote: post #88

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Emojis are in Unicode. They aren't parsed or converted to multiple glyphs anymore, the text editor will provide them directly. http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html I was doubtful of emojis at first, but now I'm loving the concept. They really help me communicate emotions that I wouldn't put into actual words. Smileys can't really do that. Culturally I see it as a the first universal (limited) language…

There have been attempts a universal language that are quite fascinating. There's an interesting RadioLab on the subject of Bissymbols. I suppose the one that sticks and evolves over time is the one that probably matters though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbols http://www.radiolab.org/story/257194-man-became-bliss/

Post by hnst » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 7:59 PM UTC

kjhughes wrote: post #34

I vividly remember having the following conversation with a fellow CMU undergrad around this time: Me: What's with all the :-) in the posts? Friend: It indicates joking. Me: Why? Friend: What's it look like? Me: A pinball plunger. Friend: Rotate 90 degrees. Me: Ohhhhhh. :-)