Posted by
Grim..., 10:28, 16th September 2002:
As Cal doesn't seem to have put in a 'real' appearance yet, I'll stick another update on.
First off, I found
this interesting. It's about a pyramid, and, in the queens chamber, there's a 20cm wide tunnel. In '93 they sent a robot down it with a camera and it hit a big limestone door 90 meters in.
This time, they are sending a robot with a camera and a drill =]
Computer archaeologists at Microsoft think they have found the first ever smiley.
The smiley dates back to a message board posting from 19 September 1982 and took six months to find (no links, unfortunatly).
Researcher Mike Jones searched through loads of old postings on the first ever message boards from the Carnegie Mellon University in the early 1980s.
The message he found says: "I propose the following character sequence for markers :-)."
Now, if it is the first ever smiley (and I'm sure it was something more like 'Your mamma sucks men :oP ), it means smileys celebrate their 20th birthday next week...
Posted by
Uncle Moc, 14:15, 16th September 2002:
So, i guess what needs to be done now is find a load of kids who share their birthday with the first smiley, and make a documentary about them. Are they cheerful? Or merely tainted by the terrible irony of this computer age?
Posted by
ell, 14:54, 16th September 2002:
Userfriendly reported the first story best.
Posted by
Grim..., 17:52, 16th September 2002:
And my admin rights have vanished, so I assume Cal will be up and posting tomorrow.
Bye, bye, everyone!
Posted by
ell, 00:40, 17th September 2002:
Noooooooooo! Bring back Mat! More blog updates in a few days than Cal does in a month. :P
Posted by
cal, 08:35, 17th September 2002:
it's quality, not quantity!
Posted by
Kevan, 12:58, 17th September 2002:
Ambrose Bierce came up with a variant of the smiley in 1910 or so (entirely sarcastically):-
www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/Bier...