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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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