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June 30, 2011 12:17 pm PDT
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Vladimir Nabokov: The Nostradamus of emoticons
In a 1969 interview with the New York Times, Vladimir Nabokov inadvertently drifted into futurism by presaging the basic idea behind emoticons. (Via Amos Zeeberg)...Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/oNN8pZYM-Bc/vladimir-nabokov-the.html
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