{"id":14246,"date":"2016-09-19T23:16:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T23:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/turn-that-frown-sideways-3\/"},"modified":"2016-09-19T23:16:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T23:16:30","slug":"turn-that-frown-sideways-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/turn-that-frown-sideways-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn That Frown \u2026 Sideways"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2162\" title=\"Original Smilicon\" alt=\"Original Smilicon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/b6e23__Scott-Elliott-Fahlman-emoticon-30th-300x236.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/b6e23__Scott-Elliott-Fahlman-emoticon-30th-300x236.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Scott-Elliott-Fahlman-emoticon-30th.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/>September 19, 1982<\/p>\n<p>In a posting made to a Carnegie Mellon bulletin board, <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.cmu.edu%2Fsmiley%2F\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Scott Fahlman proposes the first known use of emoticons<\/a> (also known as smilicons or smileys). While the use of emoticons became widespread during the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s, their origin remained unknown until September 10, 2002, when the original message was retrieved from backup tape, which is displayed below.<\/p>\n<pre>\n19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman             :\u200c-)\nFrom: Scott E Fahlman &lt;Fahlman at Cmu-20c&gt;\n\nI propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:\n\n:\u200c-)\n\nRead it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark\nthings that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use\n\n:\u200c-(\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/b6e23__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/09\/19\/turn-that-frown-sideways\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 19, 1982 In a posting made to a Carnegie Mellon bulletin board, Professor Scott Fahlman proposes the first known use of emoticons (also known as smilicons or smileys). While the use of emoticons became widespread during the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s, their origin remained unknown until September 10, 2002, when the original message was retrieved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[2072,2073,2071],"class_list":["post-14246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-frown","tag-sideways","tag-turn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}