Carnegie Mellon celebrates 25th anniversary of 'smiley face'

AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 9/18/07 | Daniel Lovering - ap

[NormsRevenge]

Has it been 25 years? wow. :-)

[Always Right]

Yeah but who was the first to do “kiss my (|)”?

[Ancient Drive]

and who was the first to -.- ? or 8)?

[Red Badger]

I prefer:

[Vaquero]

DO'H!

(_8(|)

[Eepsy]

=^-^=

Kitty Smiley

[duckbutt]

Or...in my case ( | )

:-)

[Vaquero]

; )~

[martin_fierro]

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[Greg F]

The details of my life are quite inconsequential.... very well, where do i begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.

[chrisser]

I seem to recall this was a common “discovery” in high school typing class.

[GOPmember]

Damn, you beat me to it.

10 years ago, high school dropout Luke Snodgrass says he was the first to use five keystrokes - a parenthesis followed by an underscore, a vertical line, another underscore, and finally another parenthesis - as a realistic "ass" in a computer message:

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Snodgrass posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 2:31 a.m. on Sept. 18, 1997, during a heated discussion about which Facts of Life chick was hotter: Blair or Jo.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Hey! Vilma gets around eh?

[PennsylvaniaMom]

In honor of CMU’s contributions to the world they should put a neon smiley up on Mt. Washington, n’at. It could even wink....

[I see my hands]

Those things as silly.

[Publius Valerius]

I’m not sure at all how such a discussion could be heated. It is clear to anyone with properly functioning eyesight that Blair was way hotter.

[Steve_Seattle]

The other day I saw a Seinfeld episode where George claimed to have been the first person to use the phrase “It’s not you, it’s me” as a break-up line. And years ago, Ed McMahon claimed one of his ancestors invented mayonaisse, and that it was originally called McMahonaisse.

[qam1]

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[andy58-in-nh]

That’s Kilroy! I guess you have to be a little older to get it. Oh, crap...