Who invented the original emoticon, :-)? A quick Google search on “emoticon invention” revealed Smiley Lore, written by Scott E. Fahlman, the original inventor of the smiley.
On September 19, 1982, the idea was first suggested on an online bulletin board, or “bboard,” at Carnegie Mellon University. This original post was lost over the many following years.
Twenty years later, Mike Jones of Microsoft sponsored an “archeological dig,” to search through CMU’s old tape backups for the initial suggestion of the sequence :-). And guess what? They found it.
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