Happy Birthday Emoticon! :-) Turns 42 Years Old This Week
By John Dodge
CHICAGO (CBS) :-)
Today, everybody knows that combination of a colon, dash and parenthesis is a smiley face.
Until 42 years ago this week, that’s all it was, a series of nonsensical punctuation.
Then, Scott Fahlman, a Carnegie Mellon computer science professor, proposed using those marks to depict a smiley face–or a joke.
People had to be told to turn their heads to recognize the…
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