Emoticons go back to the latter 19th cent.https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/911663979792961536 …
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Yep. I know that SF Amateur Press Associations were using fairly complex emoticons by at least the 50s, perhaps earlier.
And they were descendants of the APAs of folks who were swapping stories and natter as a way to show of their presses ~1870s.
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