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It was introduced to the world at 11.44 on Sunday, September 19, 1982. We know this because it was sent in an email; specifically, an email sent by Scott Fahlman (above), a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in the USA. In his email to the CMU computer science bulletin board, he suggested the symbol as a solution to the tricky problem of telling when someone was joking in a text email. He wrote:

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:



Read it sideways.

And so the smiley was born. Helpfully, Fahlman also invented the frowny in the same email, continuing:

Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use



Fahlman's suiggestion quickly caught on, and rapidly spread beyond Carnegie Mellon to other universities... and, eventually, the world.

I wonder since when it's got the name emoticons? Back when i was young it always called "smily"

Emoticon

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An emoticon (/ɨˈmoʊtɨkɒn/) is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using punctuation marks and letters, usually written to express a person's feelings or mood.

Emoticons are often used to alert a responder to the tenor or temper of a statement, and can change and improve interpretation of plain text; emoticons for a smiley face and sad face appear in the first documented use in digital form. The word is a portmanteau word of the English words emotion and icon. In web forums, instant messengers and online games, text emoticons are often automatically replaced with small corresponding images, which came to be called emoticons as well. Certain complex character combinations can only be accomplished in a double-byte language, giving rise to especially complex forms, sometimes known by their romanized Japanese name of kaomoji.

The use of emoticons can be traced back to the 19th century, and they were commonly used in casual and humorous writing. Digital forms of emoticons on the Internet were included in a proposal by Scott Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a message on 19 September 1982

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Smiley
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Smiley

A smiley, smiley face, happy face, or is a stylized representation of a smiling humanoid face, commonly occurring in popular culture. It is commonly represented as a yellow (many other colors are also used) circle (or sphere) with two black dots representing eyes and a black arc representing the mouth. "Smiley" is also sometimes used as a generic term for any emoticon.

The variant spelling "smilie" is not as common,[1] but the plural form "smilies" is commonly used