What does the smile mean, or the success story of a yellow face

In the process of communicating people much more important are the intonations with which this or that phrase is uttered, than the words used to construct it. However, in the modern world, more and more often, even personal communication is transferred to the Internet or in short SMS messages. This situation has led to the emergence of certain Icons that express emotions.

Today, every person has an idea of what a smile means. But I think it would be superfluous to mention that a smiley is an expression of emotions in written speech with the help of a pictogram consisting of punctuation marks, letters and other symbols.

The history of the emoticons

The first drawings, like emoticons, were found among the writings of Ancient China. In the modern world, as early as 1969, Nabokov suggested that it would be wonderful to come up with an icon indicating a smile in a written speech. And only in 1982 Falman, who was an American scientist, transferred this idea to paper. He suggested using a certain sequence of signs to mean joking messages: ":-)" (which means smile). He appeared in the world long before the invention of a cell phone and gaining worldwide popularity by the Internet. Subsequently, the list of such smiley icons has expanded significantly. In principle, it is expanding to this day. Today, if you got an unfamiliar smilie, the value of it is very easy to find on the Internet.

If we consider emoticons from the other side - like a yellow mug, their He owes his origin to the artist Harvey Bell, who lived in the sixties in the USA. One of the insurance companies asked him to come up with an icon that would raise the mood of the employees. Bell spent no more than ten minutes on his invention and received a seemingly ridiculous fee - less than fifty dollars. Subsequently, Bell did not even try to make money on his invention and establish authorship, which means that the smilie was never officially recognized as his brainchild.

The first emoticons were attached to pins. They won such a success that soon the insurance company ordered more than ten thousand icons with such an image. However, the worldwide popularity of the yellow face came when two Spanish brothers came up with a slogan that in Russian means "Happy Day!" And again, no one thought about registering copyrights.

So there would be a smiley without legalization, if in 1971 an entrepreneur Lawrence did not claim the right to him. He claimed - he came up with a funny face in 1968 , which means that the smilie owes his appearance to him.

It is said that computer smiles developed independently and in parallel from their yellow counterparts. In the early seventies in the Plateau platform there were pictograms that denoted certain emotions. In 1982 they were extremely popular on electronic bulletin boards.

Today, especially enterprising people are trying to legitimize copyrights to these or other pictograms. A lot of such personalities are also found in Russia, which means that the smile is extremely popular, and everyone wants to get a piece of his glory.