PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) — It was a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon. art.smiley.professor.ap.jpg Carnegie Mellon professor Scott E. Fahlman was the first to use the
in a computer message.
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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* 25 years ago professor Scott E. Fahlman first used the computer ‘smiley face’
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posted to an online e-bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on September 19, 1982
* Variations:
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