:-) turns 25!

[Nikki]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/09/18/emoticon.anniversary.ap/index.html

Happy birthday :-)!


In all seriousness, who keeps track of that sort of thing?

Fahlman posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on September 19, 1982, during a discussion about the limits of online humor and how to denote comments meant to be taken lightly.

[mark]

... to be fair, you read it.

and enjoyed it enough to write about it.

[Nikki]

Who said I had to enjoy what I write about?  I wrote about it because I thought it was strange.

[Ryan]

I think it is silly to even claim to be the first person to have used those characters.  I think that is pretty hard to prove.  The fact that a symbol's birthday was celebrated is also pretty silly.