21 September 2007

Emoticon 25 years old


Emoticon 25 anniversary was celebrated on 19 Sept 07, it was used for the first time in 1982 by Scott Fahlman a Carnegie Mellon professor on a school bulliten board system.
Along with emoticon anniversary came a surprise that smiley just didn't happen accidently it was actually proposed by Scott Fahlman to display emotions in comments.

Here is the picture which shows the proposition and first use of smiley

Messgage by smiley inventor : History of smiley

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