Smiley turns 25

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Web's ubiquitous ‘colon-hyphen-parenthesis’ celebrates a milestone

PITTSBURGH - It was a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon.
Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis — as a horizontal "smiley face" in a computer message.............

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[entrana]

wow i thought it was only 10 years old

 

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i think i had seen 1 in '94

wen i was learning QBASIC

 

[Vishal Gupta]

Cool. My site will share its Birthday with Emoticons.