Happy 25th Birthday Smiley - Alex celebrates!

[Kevy Baby]

Digital ‘smiley face’ turns 25
Web's ubiquitous ‘colon-hyphen-parenthesis’ celebrates a milestone

PITTSBURGH - It was a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon.

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Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis — as a horizontal "smiley face" in a computer message.

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[AllyOops!]

Happy 25th Birthday, happy buddy!

First a Thread about the color pink and now a smiley Thread? Everything really is coming up AllyOops!

[Capt Jack]

hippy happy smappy daffy
dippy drippy snippy...pringle dingle...something something

to yooooou Mr Smiley face on his side dewd

many sideways returns of the day

[Cadaverous Pallor]

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= 0

>=-/

}=-)

8-) glasses

=-*) dimple

= D

&=-) fancy hairdo

@=-) fancy hairdo

!-/ poked out eye, can be wink too

#=-( boo boo on head

=-? confused, great because he really looks confused!

and, my favorite:
= Þ


Here's a rose

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for the smiley's birthday!