This Emoticon Long History

The continued development of information technology makes communication not only verbally, but much of it through writing. But the textual communication tends to be rigid, because it is not visible expression in communication. So sometimes, it is difficult to distinguish joke with a serious statement.
However, there are ways to reduce the stiffness that had been found in communication via text: Emoticon.
Emoticons, also has a long history, evolving with the development of communication. Here's a summary of the long history of emoticons, as quoted from page Mashable.
Emoticon in a speech Abraham LincolnDalam a transcript of a speech that found the New York Times, there is an emoticon;) used by Lincoln. But until now not known whether it is a typo (typing error) or is a smiling, winking emoticon.
Art a la Puck typografi
U.S. origin weekly humor magazine published between 1871-1918, Puck, never made a typo or error writing about writing, which was able to form a picture is worth of art. Puck then cited a number of facial expressions formed from typewriting. There are four kinds of expressions are exemplified, namely joy, melancholy, flat face, and admiration
(Photo: Wired.com)
Emoticon findings Guardian says Kevin MacKenzieLaman optional noted as the inventor of emoticons, but its use was first used by Kevin MacKenzie. In an electronic letter written 12 April 1979, MacKenzie wrote emoticons -) which means "tongue stuck to the side cheek".
The Smiley
An artist named Harvey Ball created the iconic smile on yellow circle. An insurance company later bought it from Harvey Ball icon for U.S. $ 45 and use it as a symbol of "the attempt".
This idea was later adapted by Bernard and Murray Spain, who use the smileys with the words "have a happy day". The Smiley-made Spain brothers later became a famous product used for stickers, mugs, t-shirts.
The Smileys are also never appeared in the movie "Forest Gump". At that time, the Forest was wiping the sweat and the sign smiley t-shirts that are used. Later, The Smiley emoticons will be the most widely used, which represent :) as a smile.

(Harvey Ball dan The Smiley. Gambar: denstoredanske.dk)

Thanks to Scott Fahlman Popular

Scott is a researcher at IBM who perpetuate his life to artificial intelligence or artificial intelligence, and thinking about how so that computers can think like humans. No wonder if on September 19, 1982, in a post on "message board" shelter in place, Carnegie Mellon University, Fehlman typing emoticons first, that is :-) and :-(

At that Fehlman wrote:

That I propose the following character sequence for joke markers:

:-)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is Probably more economical to mark
Things That are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use

:-(

Fehlman later explained, emoticons are useful for a joke via text could be understood as a joke and not serious.

Although his work was later modified by a number of technology companies such as Yahoo and Microsoft, but did not receive a penny Fehlman any of emoticons.

"If people spend money, no one will ever use. Consider it a small gift from me to the world," said Fehlman, as quoted by USA Today.

Thanks to the Instant Messaging increasingly Various Various emoticons way even more widely used. The development is also thanks to the development of emoticons seem to instant messaging, especially Yahoo! Messenger.
(Photo: Yahoo! Messenger)

Y! M is known to perform a number of modifications to an emoticon into a cute picture, moving. Just by typing =)) for example, the display in Y! M will be turned into a laughing emoticon rolling.

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