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! 🙂
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?
B Thoreau 🛸