A Huge List of Emoticons to Spice up Your Stories
Like any emoticon, it starts with a colon.
I wrote my first story in August when I must have mistyped and lo and behold a discovery.
A huge list of emoticons to spice up my stories. If this isn't a new feature here, it is my first time to know about it.
Hidden Feature or Not?
I finished writing 100 stories in 10 days, and while this month I want to take it easy, I still want to write at least one story each day.
A typo leads to discovery. It starts with a colon (:)
Emoticons or Emoji
Emoticons Started With a Joke Gone Wrong
In 1982, Neil Schwartz posted a physics riddle involving mercury and a candle on the Carnegie Mellon University message board. To that, his colleague Howard Gayle replied:
“WARNING! Because of a recent physics experiment, the leftmost elevator has been contaminated with mercury. There is also some slight fire damage. Decontamination should be complete by 08:00 Friday.”
It’s easy to predict what happened next: the joke went terribly wrong and spurred panic on the campus. And that, according to the legend, is why emoticon was born.
