<story><title>Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed</title><url>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jgw</author><text>It makes me a bit of a luddite (and a heck of a curmudgeon), but it always makes me a little sad when good ol&amp;#x27; ASCII smileys are rendered all fancy-like.  There&amp;#x27;s something charming and hackerish about showing it as a 7-bit glyph.&lt;p&gt;I think the Internet fundamentally changed when that happened.&lt;p&gt;Tangentially-related, I can&amp;#x27;t fathom why someone would post YouTube videos of `telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl`.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sippeangelo</author><text>My biggest problem with this is when the images auto-replacing your text emotes convey a completely different expression, and you have no control over it.&lt;p&gt;Skype is the worst offender, where for example the &amp;quot;:3&amp;quot; cat-face gets replaced by an image of a whole cat, without a face at all. If you disable this &amp;quot;feature&amp;quot; in your options, it&amp;#x27;s only disabled on YOUR end. The receiving client will still convert your text into images, so now you have NO clue at all how the receiving party interprets your expressions.&lt;p&gt;Telegram does this RIGHT, where the conversion is done BEFORE your message is sent. If you disable it on your end, the receiver will only receive the text you intended.</text></comment>
<story><title>Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed</title><url>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jgw</author><text>It makes me a bit of a luddite (and a heck of a curmudgeon), but it always makes me a little sad when good ol&amp;#x27; ASCII smileys are rendered all fancy-like.  There&amp;#x27;s something charming and hackerish about showing it as a 7-bit glyph.&lt;p&gt;I think the Internet fundamentally changed when that happened.&lt;p&gt;Tangentially-related, I can&amp;#x27;t fathom why someone would post YouTube videos of `telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl`.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cholantesh</author><text>Emojis are stunningly ugly to me, though I did appreciate throwing out the custom doge and Doom space marine ones at random when my team used Slack.</text></comment>