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Before this, the earliest example that people had found was 1862 https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/hfo-emoticon/ https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com
by donohoe 5y ago
Before this, the earliest example that people had found was 1862
https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/hfo-emoticon/ https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/hfo-emoticon/
- gibspaulding 5y agoThe glyph is much older than that, though perhaps the usage was slightly different. Wikipedia says they were being hand drawn as early as the 1100's and were being used on printing presses by 1484. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(typography) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(typography)
- rsynnott 5y agoI think the interesting thing here is not so much that the glyph exists (lots of typographical symbols have existed for a long time) but that it is being used much as we use emojis today.
- yreg 5y agoThe server redirects me to err 503 after a short moment. Here's an archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210818212153/https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/hfo-emoticon/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210818212153/https://cityroom....
- donohoe 5y agoHmm. Still works for me but thank you for providing the archive URL.