By David W. Sanderson
March 1997
Pages: 93
ISBN 10: 1-56592-041-4 |
ISBN 13: 9781565920415
(Average of 3 Customer Reviews)
From the people who put an armadillo on the cover of a system administrator book comes this collection of the computer underground hieroglyphs called "smileys." Originally inserted into email messages to denote "said with a cynical smile":-), smileys now run rampant throughout the electronic mail culture.
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From the people who put an armadillo on the cover of a system administrator book comes this collection of the computer underground hieroglyphs called "smileys." Originally inserted into email messages to denote "said with a cynical smile":-), smileys now run rampant throughout the electronic mail culture. They include references to politics 7:^] (Ronald Reagan), entertainment C]:-= (Charlie Chaplin), history 4:-) (George Washington), and mythology @-) (cyclops). They can laugh out loud %-(I) wink ;-) yell :-(0) frown :-( and even drool :-)~
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Smileys Review, February 26 2004
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Submitted by George Woolley of Oakland.pm
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The scope of this book is impressive.
It includes an incredible number of ASCII smileys.
It also provides some valuable perspective
as well as a very extensive dictionary
in which you can look up smileys.
I wanted this book for a long time before I got it.
I was not disappointed.
If you found this review,
likely you would enjoy this book
and very possibly even find it useful.
This book would be a fun present for any geek,
and, for that matter, for anyone who does email
or instant messaging
or most any other form of on-line communication.
However that said,
I think it's time for a second edition.
For more detail, see my longer review.
Smileys Review, August 14 2002
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Submitted by michael
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i love this book - i own the english and a german version. it is definitive!
btw: you may find information on the book and smileys in general at this website
http://smileys.antville.org
Smileys Review, August 12 2000
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Submitted by Andy
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It's a good book, and a great comprehensive guide on how to express one thing usually difficult to express on the internet -- emotion.
Media reviews "In the dry world of zeroes and ones, a small, bright spot in the distant gloom rises like a sunny smile-face. Yes, Virginia, the nerds have found a sense of humor. Out of the spam comes Smileys to add a dash of cleverness to tired old E-mail.. Admittedly slim, David Sanderson's book fits nicely in a laptop bag for easy chuckle-research. Or it can be parked next to the desktop for quick comic relief." --Dingbat, February 1999
"For a quick grin at an odd moment, this is a nice pocket book to carry around. :-) If you keep this book near your terminal, you could express many heretofore hidden feelings in your email. ;-) Then again, such things may be frowned upon at your company. :-( No matter, this is a fun book to have around." --Gregory M. Amov, News & Review, June 1993
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