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Emoticons from the 1880s
- by Brian Cronin
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A cute bit I came across while looking at Joseph Keppler was the discovery of emoticons in his magazine, Puck, in 1881!
Or as they term it, "typographical art."
Hilarious!
- Posted on October 20, 2008 @ 12:30 PM
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16 Comments
Apodaca
October 20, 2008 at 12:48 pm
That IS funny.
Matt Algren
October 20, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Talk about being ahead of your time. He didn't even copyright them!
bloomberg
October 20, 2008 at 9:45 pm
I think we need more "tyrannical crowd[s] of artists"...was this in response to anything in particular?
Jono11
October 20, 2008 at 10:11 pm
I think they're just having a little joke.
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October 22, 2008 at 8:05 am
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STWALLSKULL » INTERESTING LINKS: King Features Syndicate’s 1949 Famous Artists and Writers: October 22nd, 2008
October 22, 2008 at 9:48 am
[...] Emoticons from the 1880s from Comics Should Be Good! [...]
OM
October 22, 2008 at 10:53 am
...I remember when the emoticons started appearing back in the mid;80's on BBS's and BITNET relay chats, and someone quoted Keppler back then. Most people didn't know who he was anymore, and apparently didn't care that much.
Vinnie Bartilucci
October 22, 2008 at 11:02 am
I wonder what the Acronyms were like?
PTMS - Pray tell me, sir...
SSICL – Shifting Slightly In Char Laughing
FSIMI – Fanning Self in Mock Indignation
who uses… « i’m not drunk enough for this.
October 22, 2008 at 11:12 am
[...] check out his post on the matter. [...]
DeTroyes
October 22, 2008 at 1:11 pm
No doubt, these were meant to be used on Babbage's Difference Engine?
And... I think I'm going to have to start using PTMS in ordinary 'net conversation....
Alexa
October 22, 2008 at 5:37 pm
LOL. This is almost as good as when I found out that 1830s New Englanders liked to use "comical misspellings". If only photography had been more advanced, they may have come up with lolcats on their own.
.com-icks
October 26, 2008 at 4:47 am
wow! love it!
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