When communicating on the Internet with an interlocutor, we use emoticons - images of funny stylized faces smiling or expressing another emotion. And we don't even think about where they came from, how they entered our history. But smilies have existed even before the advent of the Internet.
The stories of the appearance of smiles are called very different. However, the very first appearance of a stylized image of a human face appeared in 1948 in the film "Port City" by the famous director Ingmar Bergman. And although the smile was sad, this year is still the starting point of his life. Later, the happy face was used in advertising campaigns for films such as "Lily" in 1953 and "Goo" in 1958. And the smiley begins to pace the planet. It becomes a symbol of various brands, it is printed on T-shirts, mugs and other products that are widely distributed in America in the middle of the twentieth century. Later, this symbol escaped from posters and T-shirts to print. And, what is noteworthy, it was suggested by the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov (or rather, he suggested using a parenthesis as an image of a smile), who lives in America in 1969. The official appearance of the smiley in print took place on September 19, 1982, thanks to a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Scott Fahlman. Since then, many artisans have invented and implemented a huge number of emoticons depicting emotions, actions, objects. Symbols, punctuation marks and letters even make up small objects depicting animals, people, etc. Smilies depicting different degrees of smiles::-),:-D, XD,>: - D,: '-), etc. Smilies, denoting actions: - * (kiss),:-P (stick out tongue),: - @ (shout),: -Q (smoke cigarette), o_O (wonder), etc. Smilies showing different people: 8-) (man with glasses), O:-) (angel), [:] (robot), etc. Smilies depicting various objects: @} -> - (rose),> (///) <(candy), (.) (.) (female breast), etc.
