Just so you know about my intensely scholarly efforts this evening: I wondered what the earliest known smiley face in the world is.
It is found on a 3, 700 year Hittite pot found in Turkey, with the classic two dots and curved line.
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Okay, lets go further down the Smiley Face Rabbit Hole.
So check this mediavel bad boy out, found in a 13th century text, drawn by the reader. Check out his glasses and is that a mustache? Thank Historian Erik Kwakkel for finding it.
Lastly, and this will be totally controversial: A Classic Sideways Smiley Emoji was found in a 1648 printed poem, To Fortune, by Robert Herrick.
I mean, the modern brain goes straight there. But most people think it is a typographical error. Did they use colons back then?
@chumblyface I thought the answer might be something like the 1960's, which just shows you how much I know about the history of smiley faces. ***literally nothing***
So yeah, apparently The Smiley Face has ancestral DNA. Who knew?
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@Thoreau I like it! But I wonder if this counts?
The Makapansgat Cobble is a manuport—not a tool, nor engineered, but deliberately carried to where it was found, suggesting that the carrier recognised the face. It's a bit older—from about 3,000,000 years ago!
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