As people invented smilies?

Today we live in a world of Internet global communication. Very few now of those who, at least once a day not to take part in a virtual conversation. Here we even learned how to Express their emotions: angry, laugh, wink, nod, cry, upset. Variety of funny faces is simply indescribable. But few people know where did the first smiley in the form of a smile.


It is interesting to know that the first smiley appeared not on the Internet. In 1953, the American Harvey bell drew a funny picture for one insurance company. The main ideology of this office soon became these words "Give joy to your customers!". The fee of the artist, then, was $ 50, but after a while bell became an International Ambassador of happiness. The picture on the yellow circle smile arc and taticek-eyes did to the American "inventor smile."


On the vast world wide web classic smiley appeared in 1982, thanks to a Scott Falman. As the researchers say. The cattle proposed to use a set of symbols to give humorous form to the messages. But there are those who do not agree with this arrangement of facts. These people claim that the authorship of the Internt-smiley belongs to programmers of the system of PLATO, who used smileys in your conversations in 1976.


An interesting fact is that the appearance of emoticons in different continents different. In the West, when drawing faces used to focus greater attention on the part of the persons who take part in facial expressions, in Asian countries it's different. Then take into account basically the eyes which perform the function of expressing emotions. Despite some differences, the birthday of the smiley is usually celebrated on September 19. On this day, all Internet users need to give each other only positive emotions.

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