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Digital 'Smiley Face' Turns 25

By DANIEL LOVERING, Associated Press Writer, Technology / Other
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 ...
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)

(AP) -- It was a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon. :-)




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