Digital 'smiley face' turns 25

[Psycho4Bud]

PITTSBURGH - 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 â?? a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis â?? as a horizontal "smiley face" in a computer message.
Digital 'smiley face' turns 25 - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_hi_te/emoticon_anniversary)

Happy Birthday Smilies!:birthday:
:jumphappy:

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

[igot4cheep]

(ugh)... Ok.


Happy B-Day Smiley
:i feel stupid::i feel stupid::i feel stupid::i feel stupid::i feel stupid::i feel stupid::i feel stupid::i feel stupid::i feel stupid:

[LIP]

:-)

[psteve]

:happybirthday:

[Mohksha]

Kind of a random thread... but interesting. Alles gute zum Geburtstag!

[pass_the_dubbie]

^_^
Happy birthday to them indeed

[PaRanOiD81]

:birthday::birthday: interesting my cousins birthday is today also :D happy birthday to all today, well whos ever birthday is today

[Gothen]

A friend of mine, her birthday was today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL!

I wonder if that guy got any royalties, or some kind of payout for being...DA FIRST!...?