TRIVIA: The first smiley

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Fri Sep 13 2002 - 09:01:02 MDT


I'm sure you all wanted to know that those $$$ you are donating
to the Microsoft Götterdämmerung (those of you in Europe should
note how clever I was in getting those funny letters inserted...)
can actually produce something useful...

Dada....

The first use of a smiley.

http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html

Of course this is courtesy of /. not me.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/12/2133216&mode=thread&tid=133

I am merely the messenger (of course we know their fate...)

R.

[Sidebar -- the strange part is that I actually recognize many of the
names mentioned in the Credits. We live in a smaller world than we
are aware of at first glance.]



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