ARTICLE/GRAPHIC: OMG! Emoticons R Older Than U Think!!! =-0

[Ryan Goble]

Wired Magazine only puts about 90% of their content on line.  This little feature I pulled does not have a date I can find :(  Still, despite the less than awesome scan, there is a lot of interesting stuff to talk with students about re: emoticons. I love the start of the timeline...

"1400s - MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS Figures and faces are drawn into manuscripts to highlight certain lines of text and cue emotional responses."

Enjoy...

[patsy everett]

I don't know how to make it turn into a picture like the pretty one above, but National Geographic recently did a page comparing/contrasting the emoticons of the Western world and the Eastern. I'm a fan of "sad" and "apologizing" myself.

http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~roberto/pdfs/NatGeoMay2010.pdf

[Ryan Goble]

Wow, they are clearly better keyboarders! This is cool - tnx for sharing!