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A similar portmanteau, verticon (based on vertical and icon), is sometimes used when referring to the East Asian style of emoticon.
The first known instance of using text characters to represent a sideways smiling (and frowning) face is in a newspaper advertisement in the New York Herald Tribune, March 10, 1953, on page 20, columns 4–6. Promoting the film LiliLili is a musical film which opened in March, 1953. Considered one among many "classic MGM musicals," it stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly naive French girl, whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the medium of four p, starring Leslie CaronLeslie Caron (b. July 1, 1931) is a French film actress and dancer. She was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. She was discovered by Gene Kelly, who chose her to appear opposite him in the classic musical An American in Paris. She went on to star in Gi, the ad read as follows:
The film opened nationwide, so the ad may have run in many newspapers.
In 1963Events January-March January 11 The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. January 14 George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. January 22 Elysee treaty between France and Germany January 28 Black student Harvey the smiley face, a yellow button with a smile and two dots representing eyes, was invented by Harvey BallHarvey Ross Ball ( 10 July 1921 12 April 2001) is famous for his invention of the Smiley. Harvey Ball was born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Whilst a student at South High School, he became an apprentice to local sign painter, and later att. Since this smiley face is not created with text characters, it is not considered an emoticon, but it presumably inspired later emoticons.
Several sites on the World Wide WebThe World Wide Web (the Web or WWW for short) is a distributed hypertext system that operates over the Internet. Basic terms Hypertext is viewed using a program called a web browser which retrieves pieces of information, called "documents" or " web pages" (such as Connected Earth) assert that Kevin Mackenzie proposed -) as a joke-marker in April 1979Events January-February January 1 Sino-American relations: United States and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations January 4 State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of dead and injured in Kent State University shootings., on a message board called MsgGroup. The idea was to indicate that a message was intended tongue-in-cheek — the hyphenA hyphen is a punctuation mark. It is used both to join words and to separate syllables. It is often confused with a dash , which is longer. Hyphenation is the use of hyphens. Rules and customs of usage Traditionally, the hyphen has been used in several w was a tongue, not a nose. Although it has two out of the three characters of the smiley, its intended interpretation was different and it doesn't appear to have inspired the later smileys.
The creator of the original ASCII emoticons :-) and :-(, with a specific suggestion that they be used to express emotion, was Scott FahlmanScott Fahlman (born March 21, 1948, in Medina, Ohio, USA) is a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. He is notable for early work on Automated Planning in a blocks world, on semantic networks, on neural networks (and, in particular, the cascad; the original proposal made by Fahlman on CMU CS general board on September 19, 1982 (at 11:44) was retrieved from old backup tapes on September 10, 2002, by Jeff Baird .
The earliest known non- ASCII emoticons were used in the PLATO IV program as early as 1972, which allowed users to type multiple text characters "on top" of each other. Many combinations of ordinary text characters were known to produce face-like patterns, which were used as emoticons.
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