Posted on 09/19/2011 8:19:27 PM PDT by Daffynition
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:
(Excerpt) Read more at technolog.msnbc.msn.com ...
I noticed that too...letter-perfect to say the least :-)
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Ya’ll should have pinged The Comedian with that post.
(/\)-(/\)
better?
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Three stooges smileys:
The french smiley:
Trying on glasses:
Painting smiley:
Titanic smiley:
Me and my alarm clock smiley:
The conservative watching Al Gore on TV smiley:
The Obama speech smiley:
LTOS taking a ride smiley:
Forum monster smiley:
The mod smiley:
Big government smiley:
Obama 2012 supporter:
Those are really FUNNY! Especially the ribber room!
};-)
RUBBER Room LOL! {:-O
I like:
{;^)
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