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posted: 22 Sep 2007 12:46 from: Martin Wynne
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'  Wednesday 19 September was the 25th anniversary of the invention of the smiley character in online communications, also known as the emoticon. The :-) symbol, necessarily created from standard keyboard characters, was invented on 19 September 1982 by Scott E Fahlman in a post on a bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University. It formed part of a thread on the way humorous remarks could be tagged to avoid misunderstandings. His message was brief, though a tad ungrammatical: "I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read it sideways." Scott Fahlman is these days the Research Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. ' ©Michael Quinion---------------------- Martin. |
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