Sideways Emoticons

January 19, 2004

Punc­tu­a­tion marks that look like smi­ley faces express hap­pi­ness on a new com­mu­ni­ca­tion tool known as “Inter­net.” The com­puter net­work is already being used by 15 mil­lion peo­ple world­wide — to chat or do impor­tant research. Com­mu­ni­ca­tion may be anony­mous and iso­lated, but there’s always some­one to talk to about sports, recipes or politics.”

A broad­cast orig­i­nally aired Octo­ber 8th, 1993 describes a net­work of debates and open com­mu­ni­ca­tion called the “Inter­net” (aka: The WWW). Accord­ing to one user at the time, the Inter­net “has more soul than any human being I know!” and yet another user describes it as lib­erty and infor­ma­tion — “part of our every­day life”.

It’s inter­est­ing that much of these philoso­phies exist today.

Detail | http://tinyurl.com/2g2nd 

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