Happy 25th Birthday Smiley - Alex celebrates!

09-18-2007, 04:07 PM

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Happy 25th Birthday Smiley - Alex celebrates!

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

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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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