{"id":682,"date":"2002-09-13T04:33:47","date_gmt":"2002-09-13T18:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/13\/682\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:53:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:53:34","slug":"682","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/13\/682\/","title":{"rendered":":-)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15862,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/research.microsoft.com\\\/~mbj\\\/Smiley\\\/Smiley.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.microsoft.com\\\/en-us\\\/research\\\/redirect\\\/?ref=https:\\\/\\\/research.microsoft.com\\\/~mbj\\\/Smiley\\\/Smiley.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Everything&#8217;s gotta start somewhere, right?<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1982, this post showed up on the CMU CS general bboard&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E  Fahlman <code>:-)<\/code><br \/>\n  From: Scott E  Fahlman &lt;Fahlman at Cmu-20c&gt;<\/p>\n<p>  I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:<\/p>\n<p>  <code>:-)<\/code><\/p>\n<p>  Read it sideways.  Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends.  For this, use<\/p>\n<p>  <code>:-(<\/code>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the world has never been the same!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/~mbj\/Smiley\/Smiley.html\" title=\"The First Smiley :-)\">Mike Jones<\/a> has the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I propose the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read it sideways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}