stef|lo|g » inventor http://www.steflo.ch Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:47:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 first emoticon 25 years ago http://www.steflo.ch/2007/09/26/first-emoticon-25-years-ago/ http://www.steflo.ch/2007/09/26/first-emoticon-25-years-ago/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:07:26 +0000 steflo http://www.steflo.ch/2007/09/26/first-emoticon-25-years-ago/ Nerd Scott Fahlman from Carnegie-Mellon-University invented the first emoticon.

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :- )
From: Scott E Fahlman
I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:
:- )
Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark
things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use
:- (

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