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The birth of the emoticon: How emojis, a fixture of online life, began 40 years ago today
Miami Herald via AOL· 2 years agoIn the early days of the internet, computer scientist Scott Fahlman ran into a problem on Carnegie...
7 Things We Owe To AOL Instant Messenger
HuffPost Life via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIf you were a user of the World Wide Web between the late 1990s and early 2000s, there’s a good chance you used AOL Instant Messenger, otherwise known as...
The Smiley way to a £500 million business
Evening Standard via Yahoo Finance· 1 week agoThey say you can’t put a price on happiness - but Nicolas Loufrani’s business is selling £500 million of products related to the round, yellow, smiling...
What is Usenet? 5 things to know about newsgroups.
TechRadar via Yahoo News· 1 year agonull While Usenet slipped under the radar for many, the computer enthusiasts of yesteryears know it as the revered origin of social networking. Its...
