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The origin of smiley faces/emoticons - Smiley Lore :-)

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tl/dr: The original smiley was proposed by Scott Fahlman at at Carnegie Mellon on Sept 19, 1982:

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)

From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>

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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