A "smile" symbol and a "unhappy" symbol that first appeared on the Internet sold nearly 240,000 U.S. dollars at an online auction in the form of non-homogeneous token (NFT) works on the 23rd.
The non-homogeneous token works are encrypted by blockchain technology, have a unique identification and uniqueness, so it is ensured that only the buyer has the ownership of the work.
The American Heritage Auction House, which organized the auction, said that Scott Falman, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, posted on the school’s electronic bulletin board on September 19, 1982, that the two were used for the first time. Symbols.
Since the Internet at the time could only provide pure text communication, some words that were originally joking were "taken seriously" and even misunderstood. In order to avoid misunderstandings, the teachers and students of Carnegie Mellon University started discussions on the school's electronic bulletin board, hoping to create a symbol to mark joking words. In that essay, Farman proposed to use the ":-)" symbol to indicate that he was joking, and the ":-(" symbol to indicate the seriousness of the speech. These two symbols later evolved to express happiness and unhappiness, respectively. Emoji became popular all over the world.
Heritage Auction House said in a statement: “Falman’s creation is of great significance, not only in that it brings humanism, context and emotion to a featureless screen, but also in that it is a meme and network in online discourse. The first symbol (symbol) of popular culture."
Along with these two symbols, there are two articles written by Falman. One of them was written in 2002 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the advent of these two symbols, and the other was written specifically for this auction. Successful bidders also received a certificate signed and mounted by Farman.
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