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Title: First ever use of bitmap smiley?
Post by: Tatsujin on May 21, 2012, 02:36:40 PM

When did the well known yellow smiley face (created in 1963) first appeared as a bitmap version in any kind of computer use (PC, MAC, internet or what ever)?

I know that there are unicode smilies (b/w & w/b) from 1981, and the ascii art :-) which its first use is recorded back to 19-Sep-82 11:44.
But when and where was it firstly introduced as a real yellow colored bitmap version ( :))?

Thanks for any valuable answers and hints :)

Title: Re: First ever use of bitmap smiley?
Post by: storino03 on May 21, 2012, 03:19:00 PM

got a picture of this smiley face? :D

Title: Re: First ever use of bitmap smiley?
Post by: Tatsujin on May 21, 2012, 03:23:45 PM

a picture of this smiley face? I don't have a particular picture of that very first bitmap smiley face ever created. therefore I am asking :)

here is one of the millions existing today ->  :)

Title: Re: First ever use of bitmap smiley?
Post by: GohanX on May 21, 2012, 04:41:09 PM

The first I can recall was old 90's AOL chatrooms, but that probably wasn't the first

Title: Re: First ever use of bitmap smiley?
Post by: Tatsujin on May 21, 2012, 04:46:15 PM

Around when in the 90s was that? I mean it must be at least after 11.1992, right?

Title: Re: First ever use of bitmap smiley?
Post by: storino03 on May 21, 2012, 06:14:35 PM

Yeah, AOL didn't exist that far back. I think they started mid 90s. before that was Netscape, primarily.

Title: Re: First ever use of bitmap smiley?
Post by: ccovell on May 21, 2012, 08:09:34 PM

Evil Otto from Berzerk (1980)?

Title: Re: First ever use of bitmap smiley?
Post by: Tatsujin on May 21, 2012, 09:25:45 PM

may you show me that one with a pic? :)

:edit:

never mind, found it at once.

(http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/dan/scary/otto2.jpg)
(http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/summer99/frenzy3.gif)

damn, I think berzek wins the race then :(

Title: Re: First ever use of bitmap smiley?
Post by: Necromancer on May 22, 2012, 03:49:32 AM

Were you hoping it was this one?  -  (https://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/Themes/Pcenginefx/images/6star.gif)

Title: Re: First ever use of bitmap smiley?
Post by: Arkhan on May 22, 2012, 04:06:45 AM

Damn straight Berzerk wins the race, BITCHES.

Title: Re: First ever use of bitmap smiley?
Post by: Tatsujin on May 22, 2012, 04:20:37 AM

Quote from: Necromancer on May 22, 2012, 03:49:32 AM

Were you hoping it was this one?  -  (https://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/Themes/Pcenginefx/images/6star.gif)

I REALLY was :(

damn berzekrferkler

but it sure was the first using the real size and resolution of the smilies still used today :D