Happy birthday smiley: The emoticon turns 30 Well, happy belated birthday, at any rate. Chase Hoffberger. Updated on June 2 2021 10:46 am CDT ...

Today, everybody knows that combination of a colon, dash and parenthesis is a smiley face. Until 32 years ago this week, that's all it was, a series of nonsensical punctuation. Then, Scott Fahlman ...

PITTSBURGH — Happy birthday to the emoticon -- the sideways smiley-face that changed the way we communicate emotion online. Consisting of three keyboard strokes (colon, hyphen, close parentheses ...

The sideways "smiley face", often referred to as the first emoticon, turns thirty years old today. Scott E. Fahlman came up with the idea during a bulletin board post on September 19, 1982 as a ...

Emoticon Inventor Marks Web's Birthday With A :-) October 29th marked the 40th anniversary of the Internet. We'll talk with Scott Fahlman, the computer researcher who invented the virtual smiley ...

Happy 30th birthday, emoticon =) Independent. 9 Sep, 2012 08:21 PM 3 mins to read. Subscribe to listen. ... To others, the very idea of using "emoticons" - communicative graphics ...