http://kairosnews.org/taxonomy/term/105/feed/%2A The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://kairosnews.org/the-first-smiley-0 A little bit of ASCII emoticon history. The <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html">first smiley was sent back in September of 1982</a>. These days, I wonder if my some of my students even know how to type it out; many GUI chat and other software interfaces provide buttons with the graphical representation to click. Link courtsey of <a href="http://digg.com/tech_news/The_First_Smiley">Digg</a>. http://kairosnews.org/the-first-smiley-0#comments emoticons Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:52:09 -0400 cel4145 4805 at http://kairosnews.org http://kairosnews.org/the-secret-cause-of-flame-wars <p>From <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70179-0.html">Wired</a>,</p> <blockquote>According to recent research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, I've only a 50-50 chance of ascertaining the tone of any e-mail message. The study also shows that people think they've correctly interpreted the tone of e-mails they receive 90 percent of the time.</blockquote> <p>I wonder to what extent emoticons would increase the likelihood of interpreting the tone? I use them all the time in corresponding with students with the idea that they should make a difference.</p> http://kairosnews.org/the-secret-cause-of-flame-wars#comments email emoticons Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:03:15 -0500 cel4145 4599 at http://kairosnews.org http://kairosnews.org/the-first-smiley Slashdot has <a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/02/09/12/2133216.shtml?tid=133">this post</a> referring to Mike Jones's computer archaeology work finding the <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html">the first smiley</a>. <br /> <br /> 1982 doesn't seem so old, does it? <br /> <br /> :-) http://kairosnews.org/the-first-smiley#comments emoticons Fri, 13 Sep 2002 01:37:43 -0400 cel4145 927 at http://kairosnews.org