11-21-2002, 11:16 PM
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Happy Birthday, Smilie
I was just reading an article in an IT trade journal when I came across this little blurb:
"September 19, 2002 marked a milestone in the history of the Internet, according to a Reuters article. It was 20 years ago on this date that Scott Fahlman, an IBM researcher in neural networks, introduced the smiley face emoticon known as  . Two decades later, emoticons are as widespread as the network that conveys them."
Wow. Twenty years! I can hardly remember what communication was like before the smilie. I mean, how DID we convey happiness, sarcasm and anger before?
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