Apr 14
This smiley face is either a perfectly fitting typo or the world’s first emoticon
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It turns out that the emoticon might be a bit older than we originally thought. Literary critic Levi Stahl has found what could possibly be the first instance of a “:)” in Robert Herrick’s 1648 poem “To Fortune.” Stahl checked to see if it was just a…
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