Otter Raft@lemmy.ca to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 months agoIn 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon - Ars Technicaarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down12
arrow-up143arrow-down1external-linkIn 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon - Ars Technicaarstechnica.comOtter Raft@lemmy.ca to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squarebryndos@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoThis ones not too bad, it’s not strictly a smiley though. https://www.codeoftheancients.com/glyphlibrary/glyph/U406 When you look under ‘happy’ they mostly seem to link to concepts of ripening, harvest, blooming and sweet things. https://www.codeoftheancients.com/dictionary/egyptian/term/happy Seems like they also could spell it out sometimes with multiple characters, which sort of surprises me.
This ones not too bad, it’s not strictly a smiley though. https://www.codeoftheancients.com/glyphlibrary/glyph/U406
When you look under ‘happy’ they mostly seem to link to concepts of ripening, harvest, blooming and sweet things.
https://www.codeoftheancients.com/dictionary/egyptian/term/happy
Seems like they also could spell it out sometimes with multiple characters, which sort of surprises me.