It's world emoji day. Did you know we had emojis in the 1980s and 1990s? We did. They were invented in 1982. In this blog post, we look at how emojis worked without graphics, where we used them before the Internet, and how they proliferated. #retrocomputing dfarq.homeip.net/emoticons-in-…
Emoticons in the 80s and 90s. We had 'em - The Silicon Underground
Before we could insert images in text, we made emoticons in the 80s with a series of ASCII characters. It looked strange but we got by.Dave Farquhar (The Silicon Underground)