13 Sep
2002
13 Sep
'02
9:50 a.m.
From: Eric Smith [mailto:eric@brouhaha.com]
Actually, if you go the the bottom of the page here...
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sefSmiley.htm
... I don't think he is claiming that he started the use of it, he seems to
only be concluding that. He says "...but it is pretty clear from the timing
that my suggestion was the one that finally took hold..."
Of course, everyone interprets written words in different ways...
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Is that the article that claims that no
smiley's were ever
used before
1982?
He doesn't claim that. He claims that he independently
invented it and started the use of it on the Internet.