Is This Smiley Face From 1648 The Very First Emoticon?
Depending on who you’re talking to, emoticons have been adding drama to our typefaces since 1982, possibly even as early as the late 1960s. But was the emoticon actually invented 300 years earlier by an English poet? Over at The Atlantic Tech, they highlight Robert Herrick’s 1648 poem “To Fortune”, which Levi Stahl argues on…
