Post #1561454
2026-04-06 00:18 UTC
In 1635, in a village nearby Slovakia’s Strazov Mountains, lawyer Jan Ladislaides marked his stamp of approval on municipal account documents with a small blotched drawing of two dots and a line inside a circle. The first bureaucratic abuse of a Smiley Face or was the guy just trying to have fun at work?
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@Thoreau@mas.to 2026-04-06 00:24
Lastly, and this will be totally controversial: A Classic Sideways Smiley Emoji was found in a 1648 printed poem, To Fortune, by Robert Herrick. I mean, the modern brain goes straight there. But most people think it is a typographical error. Did they use colons back then?