Happy 25th Anniversary Colon-Dash-Paren
Posted by Melanie Phung on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Twenty-five years ago today, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman invented the smiley emoticon as a marker to signal that something should be taken lightly or as a joke.
The suggestion, made off-hand on a electronic bulletin board during a discussion about the limits of online humor, quickly spread around the world.
Today’s emoticons come in a huge array of graphic and even animated themes, but the classic colon-dash-closing-parenthesis sequence is still near and dear to my heart. And it saves bandwidth too!

Learn more about the history of the sideways smiley face.
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