Smiley Face
SCS research professor Scott Fahlman is credited with the invention of the smiley face emoticon. He suggested the emoticon on an electronic board in 1982 as a way for board readers to know when an author was joking. The text of Fahlman's original post was lost for nearly 20 years but was later recovered from backup tapes:
19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)
From: Scott E Fahlman |
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