- 1982
- ARPANET
- Carnegie Mellon
- CMU
- computer science history
- digital culture
- Emoji
- Emoticons
- flame wars
- internet history
- online communication
- retrotech
- Reviews
- Scott Fahlman
- smileys
- tales of tech lore
- Tech
- tech lore
- text communication
In 1982, a physics joke gone unsuitable sparked the invention...
The recovered messages, which you’ll read here, present how collaboratively the emoticon was developed—not a lone genius second however an ongoing dialog proposing, refining, and constructing on the group’s concepts....