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Origins of the Smiley on the Internet September 19, 1982

On September 19, 1982 American computer scientist Scott E. Fahlman 
of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 
suggested on a bulletin board that the emoticons (emoticon)

:-) and :- (

be used to express emotion on the Internet. The text of his original 
proposal, posted to the Carnegie Mellon University computer science 
general board on 19 September 1982 (11:44), was thought to have been 
lost, but was recovered 20 years later by Jeff Baird from old backup 
tapes:

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-) From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark 
things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use

:-(

Other notable computer scientists who participated in this thread 
include David Touretzky, Guy Steele, and Jaime Carbonell. Within a 
few months, it had spread to the ARPANET and Usenet.


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