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Proof that humans will torture punctuation until it smiles back.
first useScott Fahlman proposed :-) in 1982 on a message board
eastern styleJapanese kaomoji read upright, no head-tilt required
older than computersAn 1880s magazine printed typographic faces as a joke
emoji splitEmoji are pictures; emoticons are punctuation pretending to be
nose optionalThe great :) versus :-) divide still sparks arguments