Article: EDITORIAL: Bad news for emoticons and emoticon lovers

Staff Editorial
University Wire
02-03-2006
(Minnesota Daily) (U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS -- Hey how r u? I miss u ;-). U 2. Emoticons. Everyone who uses AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger or any online instant communication program knows what they are and probably uses them once in a while. Now, anyone who ever wanted to make a simple old-fashioned colon-dash-right parenthesis smiley might no longer be able to. The programs now take typed "commands" such as these, and automatically turn them into bright yellow shining grins, whether the user likes it or not.

Last week, Cingular applied for a United States patent on its so-called "invention" of using a single key command that would send ...

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