The Smiley turns 25 tomorrow!

The Smiley turns 25 on the 19th! 🙂

Check the date correction on the Wikipedia article, though:

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman 🙂
From: Scott E Fahlman

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

🙂

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark
things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use

🙁

Comments

2 responses to “The Smiley turns 25 tomorrow!”

  1. Clive

    You need to stop your software substituting graphical smileys when posting that sort of thing…

  2. Art, I considered that, but left it. I thought it rather appropirate. Yarrrrrrrrrr…

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