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Digital 'smiley' turns 25 - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:24 AM EDT
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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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