quote:

---

PITTSBURGH (AP) — It was a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon. :-) Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis — as a horizontal "smiley face" in a computer message.

---

 

---

Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :
 
:-)
 

---

Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
 
%}
 

---

Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
 
I invented snowboarding when I was a kid, just took the wheels off my skateboard and went down a snowy hill.
 

---

Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 


Hobbes
 

---