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IDEA No 19
THE EMOTICON
Since the beginning of written communication, symbols have been used to convey emotions. Early examples, used by telegraph operators, include ‘73’ meaning ‘best regards’ and ‘88’ meaning ‘love and kisses’. On the Web the equivalent is an emoticon, a visual representation of a facial expression using punctuation marks, numbers and letters ;-)
In 1963 State Mutual Life hired cartoonist Harvey Ball to create a smiley face for the company’s ‘Friendship’ campaign. He designed a circular yellow face with two black dots for eyes and a simple curve for a mouth. It took him ten minutes and he ...
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