Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Guaranteed to place a "smile on your face" are these resolutions for the New Year: No more partisan political messages dividing America, and an Rx for 2022: One ...
In the early days of the internet, computer scientist Scott Fahlman ran into a problem on Carnegie Mellon University’s online bulletin boards. People used the bulletin boards — a kind of primitive ...
Emotion is something that is incredibly difficult to get across in a digital format. Aside from ending your texts with “lol” to appear less threatening, or ending a tweet with “/s” to indicate sarcasm ...
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How a Physics Joke Inspired the First Emoticon
The humble smiley face emoticon, now a staple of online communication, owes its origin to a physics joke that didn't hit ...
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