- Unusual Smiley Holiday!
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09/11/2018
Every year on September 19 an unusual holiday is celebrated - the birthday of a friendly electronic symbol – Smiley!
On September 19, 1982, a professor at the Carnegie Mellon University, Scott E. Fahlman, for the first time offered to use three symbols in succession - a colon, a hyphen and a closing bracket, to designate a "smiling face" in the text typed. This was a serious replenishment of the electronic lexicon.
Ever since, the modern youth simply does not imagine their communication without this graphic add-on, which perfectly conveys all feelings and emotions. Smiley is a key that carries a certain semantic load, causing this or that emotion in the reader. Emoticons help people to convey the most accurate meaning of the words to the interlocutor in a chat, instant messenger or simple email.
Many modern people have got used to emoticons so much that they consider messages without their application too dry and emotionless. Our users know this better than others, don’t they? ;-) Communicating with foreigners, you surely feel how smilies help to eliminate language inaccuracies, to understand each other without superfluous words and express all possible shades of your mood.
It's hard to imagine what awaits us in another 30 years! In the meantime, we can share our emotions in this fun way on our website - both in regular messages and online chat rooms!
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