Smile Like You Mean It :-)

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Smile Like You Mean It!! Ok... it's not the Killers, but a killer idea that is now 25 years old!!
Scott Fahlman is credited with launching the first emoticon into cyberspace 25 years ago.

Read the original post:
Original Bboard Thread in which :-) was proposed

Here is the original message posted by Scott Fahlman on 19 September, 1982:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm
Read an article written by him:
Smiley Lore :-)
Scott E. Fahlman
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sefSmiley.htm
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That's not the man in the moon...that's me ;)
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