The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: Did Abraham Lincoln Pioneer Emoticons? 1862 Speech May Offer Clues

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Did Abraham Lincoln Pioneer Emoticons? 1862 Speech May Offer Clues Sep 19th 2012, 19:54 Was Abraham Lincoln one of the first people to use the playful ;) emoticon? Though the text symbol for "winking," used in our emails, tweets, texts and instant messages, was officially introduced in 1982, the ;) appears in a copy of a speech President Lincoln delivered way back in 1862. The New York Times wrote in 2009 that a newspaper specialist working for archival company Proquest had spotted a sideways "face" in one of Lincoln's speech transcripts, printed in the Times on August 7, 1862. The symbol appeared after the word "laughter." Read More... More on Video

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