August 01, 2007

Happy 25th, :-) (Smiley is Quarter Century Young)

The emoticon is 25 years old!

Scott Fahlman, a research professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon, created the emoticon while at CMU 25 years ago. "It has been fascinating to watch this phenomenon grow from a little message I tossed off in ten minutes to something that has spread all around the world," said Fahlman.

Read the original Bboard thread in which :-) was proposed.