Im w00t wif Emoticons

September 21, 2008 in Culture, Graphics, Language
Tags: Emoticons, Leet Speak, LolCat, Smileys, Wired

The culture analysts at Wired posted a great piece about the evolution of emoticons, a simple text expressions that existed long before the World Wide Web itself. I’d never known who exactly invented it, but it turns out that it was Scott Fahlman, an innocent computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, who first proposed using typographical [...]