[GOPmember]

Damn, you beat me to it.

10 years ago, high school dropout Luke Snodgrass says he was the first to use five keystrokes - a parenthesis followed by an underscore, a vertical line, another underscore, and finally another parenthesis - as a realistic "ass" in a computer message:

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Snodgrass posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 2:31 a.m. on Sept. 18, 1997, during a heated discussion about which Facts of Life chick was hotter: Blair or Jo.

[Publius Valerius]

I’m not sure at all how such a discussion could be heated. It is clear to anyone with properly functioning eyesight that Blair was way hotter.

[GraniteStateConservative]

You are a very clever satirist.

[woollyone]

the later modified Snodgrass v2.0 included the place the sun doesn't shine...

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