The emoticon truly began to take off one afternoon in September, 1982, when a Carnegie-Mellon University computer scientist named Neil Swartz proposed a problem on an e-mail message board for some ...

I deas man David Delahunty is behind a new flash storage device which looks like a classic MacOS folder icon dragged into the ...

Thirty-three years ago today, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University invented the emoticon. Scott E. Fahlman, along with other members of CMU's computer science community, used online "bulletin ...

Emoticons reflect the likely original purpose of language - to enable people to express emotion, said Clifford Nass, a professor of communications at Stanford University.

Love actually: Computer model may decode Facebook emoticons Date: February 6, 2018 Source: Penn State Summary: While the trusty 'like' button is still the most popular way to signal approval for ...

Emoticon entered the world at 11:44 a.m., his reputed father, Scott E. Fahlman, a research professor at the Language Technologies Institute and Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon ...

With three simple keystrokes, Scott Fahlman brought a smile to the internet. In a 1982 message board post, Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, proposed using typographical ...

Scott Fahlman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, posted the first emoticon at 11:44 a.m. 25 years ago.

Thirty years ago Wednesday, noted Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist Professor Scott Fahlman typed out the first sideways smiley face composed entirely of keyboard characters and posted ...

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Final note: A particularly happy birthday September 19, 1982 marks the first day someone typed a colon, a dash and a right parentheses and said: "Hey, look at what this looks like sideways." ...