Keepon Wins Smiley Award
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 28 of April , 2010 at 1:08 am
You might not think of the internet smiley emoticon as something that some guy just invented, but that’s exactly what happened. Scott E. Fahlman, a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon, came up with it on September 19, 1982. Three years ago, he established the Smiley Award, and this year, Keepon won with this:
(o.o)
( )
Which you can abbreviate to:
(o.o)
I have no idea what emotion (o.o) is supposed to convey, and actually, the award is for Keepon itself, not the appropriateness of the emoticon. But who cares, it’s cute.
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Comment by math
Made Wednesday, 28 of April , 2010 at 6:09 am
The equation shown is wrong, it really needs to be a multiplication sign, not a plus.
Comment by Marek
Made Wednesday, 28 of April , 2010 at 7:47 am
Actually, we just posted this new Keepon emoticon in response to winning the award; it has nothing to do with the prize itself. :-)
