Fahlman entered the discussion with his now-famous post: “I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read it sideways.” He added that serious messages could use :-(, noting, “Maybe we should mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends.”
From there, the smiley could spread across the emerging global computer network, and no one would ever misunderstand a joke online again. :-)
Is that last post of the article meant as a joke or not? I do not understand.
27 Comments
x00z@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 273d
Is that last post of the article meant as a joke or not? I do not understand.
kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 273d
Read it sideways.
x00z@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 273d
So the article is a joke and untrue?
Kissaki@feddit.org · 10 pts · 273d
It's for the last sentence, "and no one would ever misunderstand a joke online again". Not the whole article.
x00z@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 273d
Oh I read that completely different. With a "if we would all use it" in there.
MurrayL@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 274d
It’s interesting how quickly they evolved in the last ~20 years.
From :-) to :) to 🙂
dankm@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 273d
1982 was 43 years ago.....
MurrayL@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 273d
Yes, but I was specifically talking about the way usage has shifted over the last 20 years.
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 273d
Shit. That makes me… too damn old.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 14 pts · 274d
I get it.
I prefer using emojis that show a range of variations of sarcasm over the very inelegant "/s," myself.
OpenStars@piefed.social · 7 pts · 274d
Not me 😋🙃😜🥴
Kissaki@feddit.org · 3 pts · 273d
Don't be so serious 🤡
123@programming.dev · 1 pts · 271d
sqgl@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 273d
And isn't the winking smiley the most relevant for sarcasm?
obinice@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 274d
:-)
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 274d
:-(
elvith@feddit.org · 5 pts · 274d
>:-(
kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 273d
:-O
Saber_is_dead@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 273d
:-|
Sebastrion@leminal.space · 4 pts · 273d
:-/
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 273d
<^> <^>
Kissaki@feddit.org · 1 pts · 273d
o7
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 273d
8===D (It doesn't even have to be read sideways)
brb@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 273d
Aqp
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 273d
90 degrees shifted