Did Someone Use an Emoticon in 1862?
From the journalistic institution known as The New York Times, we get an in-depth investigation into the pressing issue of whether someone used an emoticon transcribing an Abraham Lincoln speech back in 1862.
Can you believe these net geeks get so excited over a semicolon adjacent to a parenthesis? Pants were crapped when they found out editors also took the phrase "LOL" out of an early pressing of Mein Kampf. ;(
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