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Happy 25th Birthday Emoticon

 

 

This post is dedicated to the 25th birthday of the first ‘emoticon’. 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.

I remember back in 1994 when I first accessed the internet via a Prodigy ISP account on my brand new 133Mgz Packard Bell Personal Computer… I was paying ‘per minute’ to access the internet so I quickly learned what emoticons were

So here’s to all the emoticons that have grown out of the legendary three keystrokes from Mr. Fahlman.