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Title: First ever use of bitmap smiley?
Post by: Tatsujin on 05/21/2012, 09:36 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: PikachuWarrior on 05/21/2012, 10:19 PM
got a picture of this smiley face? :D
Title: Re: First ever use of bitmap smiley?
Post by: Tatsujin on 05/21/2012, 10:23 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 05/21/2012, 11:41 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 05/21/2012, 11:46 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: PikachuWarrior on 05/22/2012, 01:14 AM
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 05/22/2012, 03:09 AM
Evil Otto from Berzerk (1980)?
Title: Re: First ever use of bitmap smiley?
Post by: Tatsujin on 05/22/2012, 04:25 AM
may you show me that one with a pic? :)

:edit:

never mind, found it at once.

(https://web.archive.org/web/20110429013748im_/http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/dan/scary/otto2.jpg) (https://web.archive.org/web/20000916052924im_/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: Nazi NecroPhile on 05/22/2012, 10:49 AM
Were you hoping it was this one?  -  (https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/Themes/pcefx/images/membericons/6star.gif)
Title: Re: First ever use of bitmap smiley?
Post by: Arkhan Asylum on 05/22/2012, 11:06 AM
Damn straight Berzerk wins the race, BITCHES.
Title: Re: First ever use of bitmap smiley?
Post by: Tatsujin on 05/22/2012, 11:20 AM
Quote from: guest on 05/22/2012, 10:49 AMWere you hoping it was this one?  -  (https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/Themes/pcefx/images/membericons/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