[MUD-Dev] Emoticons: When was the "big bang?"

[Elia Morling]

From: Randolf Richardson

> Does anyone know when the first emoticon was used?  

Sometime during 1981, Scott Fahlman, who is now a Principle Research
Scientist in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon
University, devised a scheme for encoding and conveying one's
feelings as small text "glyphs" to overcome this frustration.

  See: http://www.newbie.net/SmileyFAQ/Fahlman.html

/Elia Morling




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