{"id":4874,"date":"2013-03-17T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/leetspeak-from-123-years-ago-contains-a-smiley\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T15:20:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T14:20:47","slug":"leetspeak-from-123-years-ago-contains-a-smiley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?p=4874","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"551\" data-id=\"4875\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tumblr_mjswn24a2B1rpiyaso1_4001.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4875\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Leetspeak and possible emoticons from 1890. Found by Koichi Yasuoka, who writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><\/p>\n<cite>The article shown right is from\u00a0<em>The Typewriter World<\/em>\u00a0(Chicago), Vol.I, No.2 (October 1897), p.46, which I found in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/catnyp.nypl.org\/search\/stypewriter+world\/stypewriter+world\/1,2,2,B\/frameset&amp;FF=stypewriter+world&amp;1,1,\">The New York Public Library<\/a>. You see the sentense &#8220;he Said it would Be a thxng of beavty &amp; jOy FORever&#8221; is followed by a combination of punctuation marks, a semicolon and a right parenthesis, which is one of the so-called emoticons nowadays. I cannot make sure that it was really intended to represent a winking smile, but I need to check\u00a0<em>Berkshire News<\/em>\u00a0(Great Barrington, Massachusetts) of February 6, 1890. How do you think about this?<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/~yasuoka\/publications\/emoticon.html\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leetspeak and possible emoticons from 1890. Found by Koichi Yasuoka, who writes: The article shown right is from\u00a0The Typewriter World\u00a0(Chicago), Vol.I, No.2 (October 1897), p.46, which I found in\u00a0The New York Public Library. You see the sentense &#8220;he Said it would Be a thxng of beavty &amp; jOy FORever&#8221; is followed by a combination of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[1404,1226,1426,184,57,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4874"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26447,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions\/26447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}