{"id":457,"date":"2007-09-20T09:27:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T08:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=457"},"modified":"2007-09-20T09:27:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T08:27:44","slug":"the-smiley-emoticon-is-25-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"The smiley emoticon is 25 today :-)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 11:44am, 25 years ago today, the smiley was invented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman \ud83d\ude42 From: Scott E Fahlman <fahlman at Cmu-20c> I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: \ud83d\ude42 Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use \ud83d\ude41<\/fahlman><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to know the smiley is 25, but it&#8217;s also interesting that in 1982 Professor Fahlman thought that the internet was becoming clogged with silliness. I wonder what he thinks of it all now.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a brief history of smileys <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdtimes.com\/emoticons\/\">here<\/a>. My webcomic contributions to the silliness of the internet update twice a week <a href=\"http:\/\/comic.matazone.co.uk\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 11:44am, 25 years ago today, the smiley was invented: 19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman \ud83d\ude42 From: Scott E Fahlman I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: \ud83d\ude42 Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use \ud83d\ude41 It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=457\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The smiley emoticon is 25 today \ud83d\ude42<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5bQqr-7n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}