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September 18, 2007 by Kitty Forbus
According to an article on CNN’s website, the smiley face consisting of a hyphen, dash, and parenthesis will celebrate its birthday tomorrow. It seems that Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman first used the emotional icon, aka emoticon, in an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on September 19, 1982. It’s amazing to see how the emoticon phenomenon has spread world wide in these past twenty-five years. Thanks, Professor Fahlman and Happy Birthday Smiley!
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