{"id":676,"date":"2008-09-19T13:38:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T20:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=676"},"modified":"2008-09-19T13:38:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T20:38:14","slug":"happy-birthday-emoticon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/19\/happy-birthday-emoticon\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Emoticon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty six years ago today, Scott Fahlman posted the following electronic message to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman  \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nFrom: Scott E Fahlman<br \/>\nI propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nRead it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use:<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude41<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As any teacher who has received a paper from a student in the past 5 &#8211; 10 years will tell you, the world has never been the same since.<br \/>\nTo honor the occasion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/discoveries\/news\/2008\/09\/dayintech_0919\">Wired has an article about the founder of the emoticon movement<\/a> and a slide show as well.<br \/>\nSmile &#8211; it&#8217;s Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty six years ago today, Scott Fahlman posted the following electronic message to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University: 19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman \ud83d\ude42 From: Scott E Fahlman I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: \ud83d\ude42 Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[630],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}