Fahlman entered the discussion with his now-famous post: “I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read it sideways.” He added that serious messages could use :-(, noting, “Maybe we should mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends.”
From there, the smiley could spread across the emerging global computer network, and no one would ever misunderstand a joke online again. :-)
Is that last post of the article meant as a joke or not? I do not understand.
Is that last post of the article meant as a joke or not? I do not understand.
Read it sideways.
So the article is a joke and untrue?
It’s for the last sentence, “and no one would ever misunderstand a joke online again”. Not the whole article.
Oh I read that completely different. With a “if we would all use it” in there.