B Thoreau 🛸1d ago

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.

You are welcome! 🙂

Show threadLuna Lactea7h ago
@Thoreau It's too perfect. Its neatness strongly implies that the artist had plenty of practice. Somewhere there must be a far older grandsmiley.
Show threadB Thoreau 🛸
@jackemled Smiley faces feel modern, don't they? They became a big thing in the 70's and then we made emojis out of them, so they are still everywhere. The Hittite Smiley Face gives a modern person some kind of uncanny valley feeling, but like a modern uncanny feeling. How can somebody so long ago emote the same way we do?
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Show threadLuna Lactea7h ago
@Thoreau The smiley face transcends time.