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It’s the anniversary of the first smiley. “Despite the significance of Fahlman’s world-changing combination of three punctuation marks, there were actually a few predecessors in earlier decades, proto-emoticons if you will.”

‘… for trips shorter than 500 miles, flying was no faster than driving. The hub-and-spoke air travel system is the root of the problem… The solution is to augment it with a radically new system that works more like a peer-to-peer network.’