Some words in orange color are the hyperlinks.
MailThe first time I used the Internet was like 12 or 13 years ago.I made my first email address from Hotmail which I no longer use.According to an article "The History of The Internet" written by Cameron Chapman, "
Email was first developed in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate the user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name)."So, email is about 16 years older than me.
Now Gmail seems to be very popular for me, and I love it.A lot of Universities and colleges, companies and some other organizations use gmail which has their original domains after@. TUJ address is exactly one of them because it's basically gmail but has original domain which is "@temple.edu".
One of the reasons I love gmail is I can use gmail with some mail application such as "Mail"of Mac computer and iPhone.I have a Macbook and iPhone, and I normally use gmail from the Mail application so that I don't need to open the web browser and type my account name and password all the time.You can use either IMAP and POP with gmail.I prefer IMAP because if you read a new message from one of such devises, the message is no longer "new message" in any devises.However, if it's POP the message is still "new" even you already read it from other devise and the Mail application keeps telling you that you have "new message"which is very annoying for me.
EmoticonsI don't remember when the first time I used emoticons, but at least I already used it when I was 15 years old. According to the same article, "While many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed by MacKenzie. The modern emoticon was born."I see some differences between Western and Japanese emoticons.Western ones are like :) and XD.Japanese ones are like (´・ω・｀) and (*｀ω´)And in Japan, we havethis kind of emoticons that is called "Asky Art" or just "AA" in Japanese.And some of Japanese emotions have names.For example, my favorite one (´・ω・｀) is called "shobon", ショボーン or ショボン in Japanese.It shows some feeling such as sadness, depression and disappointment.
Here, I introduce some popular AA characters which have names.
内藤ﾎﾗｲｿﾞﾝ or ブーン ( ^ω^) Naito Horizon or Boon
ﾄﾞｸｵ ('A`) Dokuo
ｼｬｷﾝ (｀･ω･´) Shakin _ｼﾞｮﾙｼﾞｭ長岡 ( ﾟ∀ﾟ) Jhoru-Ju Nagaoka
杉浦ﾛﾏﾈｽｸ ( ФωФ) Sugiura Romanesuku
兄者 ( ´_ゝ`) Anija( older brother)
弟者 (´<_｀ ) Otoja(younger brother)
ﾓﾅｰ ( ´∀`) Monah
ﾓﾗﾗｰ ( ･∀･) Morarah
ｷﾞｺ猫 ( ﾟДﾟ) Giko-cat
ﾌｻｷﾞｺ ミ ﾟДﾟ彡 Fusa-giko
しぃ (*ﾟーﾟ) Shi
つー (*ﾟ∀ﾟ) Tsu
斉藤またんき (･∀ ･)Saito Matanki
Those characters are often used when some people write their own novels which called Boon Novels(ブーン系小説).
by ブーン系小説顔文字Now you can see some products of those emoticons.
I do own one of the most popular products,
shobon cushion.
You can also see those cushions in
my dailyshoot assignment pictures.
