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Topics => General Board => Topic started by: Pandora on July 15, 2012, 12:10:24 PM

Title: "Shady Characters -- The Secret Life of Punctuation"
Post by: Pandora on July 15, 2012, 12:10:24 PM

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Emoticons are, it turns out, rather older than I had thought. Last month the photo blog Retronaut posted images of an 1881 issue of Puck magazine depicting proto-smileys constructed from parentheses, stops and other typographic marks, just like their modern counterparts.

(http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Emoticons_Puck_1881.png)

http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2012/07/miscellany-%E2%84%96-12/ (http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2012/07/miscellany-%E2%84%96-12/)

H/T American Digest

Title: Re: "Shady Characters -- The Secret Life of Punctuation"
Post by: Libertas on July 15, 2012, 04:09:43 PM

Need horrific shock and unbridled anger to get much use in present day Amerika.