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Snope says it's false: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/glyph-notes/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/glyph-notes/
by Giorgi 6y ago
Snope says it's false: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/glyph-notes/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/glyph-notes/
- tuukkah 6y ago"he may even have invented the form of emoticon meant to be read with one’s head tilted to the left"
- not2b 6y agoCongrats to Snopes for tracking down an earlier use, but it was the :-) smilie that caught on, and people didn't get it from Readers' Digest. So although the 1982 message wasn't the first-ever emoticon it was the one that got the Internet (or more specifically Usenet) using emoticons. It's similar to pointing out that Christopher Columbus didn't "discover America" even from a Eurocentric perspective because others were first. Those other early settlements died out; Columbus changed everything.