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Digital 'Smiley Face' Turns 25

Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:18 AM EDT
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Daniel Lovering, AP Business Writer
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<p>Carnegie Mellon professor Scott E. Fahlman is shown in his home office on Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, in Pittsburgh. Twenty-five years ago, three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis — were first used as a horizontal "smiley face" in a computer message by Fahlman, the university said. Fahlman posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on Sept. 19, 1982. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)</p>

Carnegie Mellon professor Scott E. Fahlman is shown in his home office on Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, in Pittsburgh. Twenty-five years ago, three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis — were first used as a horizontal "smiley face" in a computer message by Fahlman, the university said. Fahlman posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on Sept. 19, 1982. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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Babar Ali

this is a nice article... refreshing for a change.

  • 2 votes
Reply#1 - Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:01 AM EDT
Juliet

yay! happy birthday smiley dude!!! who would have thought that something so simple could describe something quite hard!

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Reply#2 - Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:58 AM EDT
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