Smiley2021.pdf

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The Birth, Spread, and Evolution of the Smiley Emoticon Scott E. Fahlman Professor Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon University Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science August, 2021 The :-) "smiley" and :-( "frowny" emoticons are now very familiar to users of the Internet, Email, and social media. I first suggested that we use these character-based symbols for online communication in a message that I posted on a Carnegie Mellon University online "bboard" at…

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