{"id":15115,"date":"2019-09-19T23:17:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T23:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/turn-that-frown-sideways-4\/"},"modified":"2019-09-19T23:17:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T23:17:50","slug":"turn-that-frown-sideways-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/turn-that-frown-sideways-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn That Frown \u2026 Sideways"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/2019\/09\/991d3__Scott-Elliott-Fahlman-emoticon-30th-300x236.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Scott-Elliott-Fahlman-emoticon-30th-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/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:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/smiley\/\" 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&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s, their origin remained unknown until September 10, 2002, when the original message was retrieved from backup tape, which is displayed below.<\/p>\n<pre>19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0:\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-(<\/pre>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/09\/19\/turn-that-frown-sideways\/\">Turn That Frown &#8230; Sideways<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/991d3__12837869.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/1823\/12837869\">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&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s, their origin remained unknown until September 10, 2002, when the original message was retrieved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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-15115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-frown","tag-sideways","tag-turn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15115"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}