"Happy 25th Birthday Emoticon!!!" Topic

Digital 'Smiley Face' Turns 25: link

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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Let's all raise a tomorrow to this great , that's brought some measure of humor to all manner of discussion. Now back to , and and till the wee hours on the , then off to for a brand new day. I could use a decent .

:-)

If the emoticon is 25 years old today, what is its lifespan?

:-) from me too.

;) and a wink

Man, I am getting old! Then again, I remember debating whether the plural of a computer mouse should be mice or mouses. Remember that debate in Byte magazine? And the big article in 1979 in Byte that said by 1990 we'd all be working 4 day weeks because computers would make our lives so efficient. Ah, the blissful ignorance of 1970's computing. :-)

So how old is the devilish grin?

}:)

If the emoticon is 25 years old today, what is its lifespan?

Eternal, like Elvis, shows up once a decade to fight Aliens or Undead.

Like Smiley Ho-Tep.

(o)(o)