Exactly 26 years ago, on September 19, 1982, a man by the name of Scott Fahlman posted the very first emoticon into a computer-science department bulletin board for Carnegie Mellon University. His post went like so:
"19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman
From: Scott E Fahlman
I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:
:-)
Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use:
:-( "
Thus, he was named as the emoticon originator. He came up with these two ASCII-based faces to make it easier to understand the mood of a scientific post. Without them, scientists were misunderstanding humor, and finding seriousness funny.
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