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Chienworks wrote on 9/19/2007, 4:41 AM
I beg to differ.

I remember when i was a wee lad playing around with my dad's typewriter and discovering that symbol on my own. That was way more than 25 years ago. 'Course, i didn't even know that email existed until 15 years later.
ushere wrote on 9/19/2007, 4:43 AM
;-{ me too

richard-courtney wrote on 9/19/2007, 5:25 AM
I remember teletypes with 1" wide punched paper tape to store messages.
Our teletype even had a rotary dial and plastic cards that were used for speed
dialing.....the good ol' days of instant messaging : )
kb_de wrote on 9/19/2007, 5:56 AM
my 1st scientific effort was I assembled a crystal set with the age of 10. its antenna reached the sky through 2 bamboos which, shortly after a while, led the thunder to our house. I survived.
that's 35 years ago.
ECB wrote on 9/19/2007, 8:13 AM
I have calluses older than you folks. :) I remember air raid warnings, rationing, and 4 digit phone numbers that was 65+ years ago.

Ed B
Jonathan Neal wrote on 9/19/2007, 8:15 AM
Smileys are one day older than me? Cool.
Grazie wrote on 9/19/2007, 9:04 AM
. .that must mean? Hold on I'm getting there .. . 1- 2 - 3 - 4 -5 . . . 25 years less one day, that must mean that . .. 25 - 24 - 23 - - . ..

Tomorrow IS Jo-Jo's Birthday!!!

. . excellent . . .. !


Grazie
TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/19/2007, 9:19 AM
i'll have to ask my mom when she first used them.... i could swear they're older then that. Perhaps not in a general computer usage, but on typewriters & older machines.
Jonathan Neal wrote on 9/19/2007, 9:25 AM
Good work, Grazie. Here I think it's only appropriate that I add a little birthday hat.

<) :-)
bStro wrote on 9/19/2007, 9:27 AM
From the site linked to above:

"Some people have told me that the :-) or :) convention was used by teletype operators in the old days. Maybe so. I haven’t seen any examples of this, but it’s plausible, given the limitations of the character set in that medium."

Rob
Chienworks wrote on 9/19/2007, 10:51 AM
:-) smiley
:) frog
:-( frownie
:( frowning frog
:() chicken