29 years ago, a smiley was born :-)

MSNBC-technology.com ^ | Rosa Golijan

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At 11:44 a.m. on September 19, 1982, a man named Scott Fahlman posted a message to an electronic computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University. And with that simple action he did something wonderful: He became the individual who would later be credited as the inventor of :-), an ASCII-based emoticon.

Thanks to the efforts of Microsoft Director of Identity Partnerships Mike B. Jones — who worked at Carnegie Mellon University when the original post was made — and a small team of dedicated individuals, we know that the following is the message Fahlman sent:

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

lol

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

What has been seen cannot be unseen! agh!