I don't use Emoticons. I've written about them in Reading Virtual Minds and receive emails and other material with them all the time. I didn't know that emoticons recently celebrated their silver anniversary. Scott Fahlman was a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1982 and posted "I propose the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read it sideways." on the blog's ancestor, the electronic bulletin board (oh, for a 300 baud acoustic!).
That was about ten years after I spent a great summer at Carnegie. Once again, too soon. Oh, well...
Scott Fahlman and some others recently started an annual $500 award, The Smiley, for students that work in technology-assisted human-to-human communications.
Hmm...maybe I should send him a copy of my book?
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