Posted by Walter Roberson on 02/06/06 19:01

In article <je0fu1te99jlmoml69p5frb0a1i7908tno@4ax.com>,
Roy L. Fuchs <roylfuchs@urfargingicehole.org> wrote:

> This WAS once a discussion forum based on language in textual form,
>not some lame set of smiling or frowning character managerie.

Which "this" do you refer to? This thread is cross-posted to
five different newsgroups, all of which were created after emoticons
as we know them came into use in September 1982.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon
--
Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath
been already of old time, which was before us. -- Ecclesiastes

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