Digital Smiley Face :-) is 25 Years Old

by | Oct 2, 2007

According to the Oct 1st issue of RCR Wireless News, the digital smiley face 🙂 is 25 years old. Scott E. Fahlman claims he was the first person to put a colon, hyphen, and right parenthesis together to form a horizontal smiley face. Mr. Fahlman is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. See what higher education can do?

Categories: Technology & Social Media

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  1. Bruce Morton
    Bruce Morton on October 2, 2007 at 2:03 pm

    ___________________ _-_
    \==============_=_/ ____.—‘—`—.____
    \_ \ \—-._________.—-/
    \ \ / / `-_-‘
    __,–`.`-‘..’-_
    /____ ||
    `–.____,-‘

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  2. Bruce Morton
    Bruce Morton on October 2, 2007 at 2:07 pm

    Uhh, that was supposed to be the starship Enterprise. I guess ASCII art can only be done in courier.

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