'Smiley Face' Turns 25 :-)

Digital 'Smiley Face' Turns 25

By DANIEL LOVERING
Associated Press Writer

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.

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Who would have thought that something so simple would revolutionize communication?