Invention of the email smiley in 1982 :-)

[mattbell]

It may have been invented several times, but this is the first documented instance.

The smiley was invented because of an email thread involving a joke about playing with fire and mercury in an elevator. Closed captioned for the humor impaired.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm

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[arethiel.livejournal.com]

:-)