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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

:-) turns 25

It was 25 years ago today that Scott E. Fahlman, a professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, used the following combination of characters in an e-mail:

:-)

It was the first-ever usage of what has become known as an "emoticon".

Happy 25th birthday Colon-Hyphen-Parenthesis!