Father Of The Emoticon: I Think Emojis Are Ugly

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Honestly, I have to agree with this guy when it comes to emojis.

In a way, these all descended from the original thing I did, and I’m the father of all these things. But if you ask me, the first emoticon was the exclamation mark, because it was text that conveyed emotion without spelling it out in words. And I wouldn’t say emojis have wiped out emoticons; I mean, there’s the rebel underground. My friends and I who are computer scientists still use the text ones.
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Is he really?

Personally, I prefer the text ones too, mainly because it has that not a picture, but a picture feeling to them. That disappears when you put in a picture.
 
The only emotes I ever use are.
[
Code: 
:) 
:D 
:P 
:O
:| 
:/ 
:( 
>:(

Since 1999!

Now I see people use all these weird ASCII forms and unicode symbols and it just makes me confused at the context some of them are used in.
 
NickJames said:
The only emotes I ever use are.
[
Code: 
:) 
:D 
:P 
:O
:| 
:/ 
:( 
>:(

Since 1999!

Now I see people use all these weird ASCII forms and unicode symbols and it just makes me confused at the context some of them are used in.
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Heh, agree with that. Though I did add 2 more to my inventory in the last couple years :

o_O
XD
 
Yea no kidding. Most messaging systems do that, and I've seen chats do that as well.

I like some of those unicode ones and kirby ones. t(<_<t) or something like that lol.
 
I don't see a difference between early emoticons whether text or graphic from emoji. I think its a bunch of xenophiles who would rather say emoji than emoticon, as if it broadens them culturally or something sad like that.
 
The hardocp emojis don't bother me much because they are simple, and they're the same size as the text. I have pidgin as a googletalk replacement and it likes to insert emoji that are 6 times bigger then the type and make my conversation look idiotic (more so anyway).
 
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NickJames said:
The only emotes I ever use are.
[
Code: 
:) 
:D 
:P 
:O
:| 
:/ 
:( 
>:(

Since 1999!

Now I see people use all these weird ASCII forms and unicode symbols and it just makes me confused at the context some of them are used in.
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When it comes to text emoticons I prefer the 2 byte versions and unicode dongers. &#664; &#860;&#662; &#664;
 
DocSavage said:
The hardocp emojis don't bother me much because they are simple, and they're the same size as the text. I have pidgin as a googletalk replacement and it likes to insert emoji that are 6 times bigger then the type and make my conversation look idiotic (more so anyway).
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Skype does this too, pretty dumb imo

I always preferred the equals sign to the colon when representing eyes dunno why...

=D
 
NickJames said:
The only emotes I ever use are.
[
Code: 
:) 
:D 
:P 
:O
:| 
:/ 
:( 
>:(

Since 1999!

Now I see people use all these weird ASCII forms and unicode symbols and it just makes me confused at the context some of them are used in.
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Table flip is useful for rage-induced moments of frustration:

(&#9583;°&#9633;°&#65289;&#9583;&#65077; &#9531;&#9473;&#9531;
 
There's still room for creativity using standard ascii:

d(_ _o)
m(_ _)m
d(((-^)
(((-T)
 
&#931;&#65288;&#65507;&#12525;&#65507;;&#65281;&#65281;&#65281;
&#20984;&#65288;&#65310;&#65343;&#65308;&#65289;&#20984;
 
I just use Facebook stickers. Much bigger and more annoying to the user.

Times change. We're old, we love the old stuff!
 
Father of emoticons? Is that kinda like the father or tying shoelaces?
 
chockomonkey said:
Skype does this too, pretty dumb imo

I always preferred the equals sign to the colon when representing eyes dunno why...

=D
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Bring back Live Messenger / MSN. Have not updated to the new version of Skype with the stupid chat bubbles and ugliness. Takes up too much screen space.
 
I finally decided to google to see what the hell emojis' are. I keep seeing references to them. Now I know what those weird squares with numbers in them I seem to see on a lot of sites now. Guessing you need to install something for them to work. Though I went to "view source" on a sample and I see the same square in the actual source code. How does that even work? I imagine these span past the regular ascii table so how does that get transmitted as a single character? I figured it would be some kind of code.
 
Flogger23m said:
Bring back Live Messenger / MSN. Have not updated to the new version of Skype with the stupid chat bubbles and ugliness. Takes up too much screen space.
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I'm still pissed they took that down. I had lot of old internet friends in there and it was actually the only place we kept tabs.
 
I also prefer the text ones, and have been forced to add spaces to keep software from auto-converting them. : )
 
(*^_^*) &#65288;&#8807;&#8711;&#8806;&#65289;&#65288;&#65342;&#9671;&#65342;&#65289;&#65288;&#65342;&#65343;&#65342;&#65289;&#9734; &#65366;&#65288;&#65342;&#65343;&#65342;&#65366;&#65289;&#9834;&#65288;&#65307;&#65507;&#12455;&#65507;&#65289;&#65288;^&#20154;^&#65289;(T ^ T) (&#12539;&#1044;&#12539;)&#12494; &#8834;((&#12539;&#8869;&#12539;))&#8835; (&#9839;&#65344;&#8743;´)

Do you even Japanese keyboard, brah.
 
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