‘Smiley Face’ Turns 25 :-)
Digital ‘Smiley Face’ Turns 25
PITTSBURGH (AP) — 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.
Who would have thought that something so simple would revolutionize communication?
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