# Sideways Smile Era

> Sideways Smile Era is a Retsy Series 1 NFT on Solana, card 0804 of 1,280 in the 00s Memes & Fads set, made in six finishes. When every message ended with a sideways face made of colons, dashes and parentheses, and you tilted to read it.

URL: https://retsy.fun/collection/sideways-smile-era/

- Card number: 0804 of 1,280
- Set: 00s Memes & Fads (00-MEM)
- Year: 2002
- Type: Text emoticon culture
- Tagline: Tilt your head. Feel the feels.
- Found at: End of every message
- Cost back then: Two keystrokes
- Stats: Nostalgia 9/10, Hype 7/10, Weirdness 6/10, Trade value 2/10
- Finishes: Base (100 copies), Holo (50 copies), Laser (25 copies), Gold (10 copies), Super Laser (1 copy), Misprint (1 copy)
- Images: https://retsy.fun/nft/0804-base.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0804-holo.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0804-laser.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0804-gold.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0804-super.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0804-misprint.webp

## The story

Before tiny pictures did the job, feelings were built from punctuation. A colon and a parenthesis meant happy. Add a semicolon and it was a wink. Kids invented elaborate faces with hats, noses and bowties, and spent study hall drafting a sideways cat that took up an entire line.

## Fun fact

Some people insisted on the version with a nose dash, others refused, and the debate was never settled.

Retsy Series 1 is an NFT collection on Solana. Every card is minted to the buyer's wallet the moment its pack is ripped at https://retsy.fun/packs/.