The smiley turns 25!
I cant believe that a communication revolution could be so young.
But there it is....dots and curves that speak across a world of languages and cultures.
Linguist David Crystal may bemoan that four languages are dying across the world each day!
But man, look up, there are new ones out here.
Cheers for the 'kolokbok' figure that speaks a myriad emotions!
romie ;)
P.S: Mekie, remember that small piece on emoticons for the school magazine, light years ago!
Mekie says:
The earliest known examples of Q are attributed to Harvey Ball, who devised them in 1963 for a Massachusetts-based insurance firm State Mutual Life Assurance. Ball never made any profit for Q, beyond his initial $45 fee.
Q was popularized in the early 1970s by a pair of brothers, Murray and Bernard Spain, who seized upon it in a campaign to sell novelty items and thus helped Q cement its place in popular culture.
However, Q's present and most commonly used avatar was created by Scott Fahlman, a research professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Computer Science, in a message posted to the CMU computer science general board on 19 September 1982 (11:44) -
exactly 25 years ago.
Identify Q. :-)
;) - I got that and yes our article came in the 15th year of the smiley and it is 13 years since we first met!! Cheers!!!
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