First Emoticon Used 40 Years Ago, Not 25
Recently, in light of the 25th anniversary of the “emoticon” by a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, a new study suggests that the emoticon is actually about 40 years old and invented by a Reader’s Digest writer.
In the May 1967 issue of Reader’s Digest, a letter-writing Aunt known as Aunt Ev used the symbol -) to represent “tongue in cheek” comments in her writings. Sure, it’s not a smiley-face, but it is indeed a symbol that defines the emotion of a writer, hence it’s an emoticon.
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I want to have sex with that lady.