Ouch, that's how you know you're getting old...Our popular ASCII smiley is 26 years old today.
It was 26 years ago, on Septmeber 19th 1982 (yep, we already had computers back then :P) that Scott Fahlman posted the following electronic message to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University
19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)
From: Scott E Fahlman
I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:
:-)
Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use:
:-(
And so emoticons were born...
(And you may want to learn some secret emoticons to use on Gmail's chat.)
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