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Digital 'Smiley Face' Turns 25

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

It was a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon. :-) 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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victoire Says:

j'avais jamais pensé qu'il y avait un mec derrière ce smiley!!