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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."
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The final note today is that September 19th marks the birthday of what I think you can fairly call the scourge of electronic communications in the modern age.
September 19, 1982 is when a guy named Scott Fahlman in the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University first typed a colon, a dash, and a right parentheses and said:
"Hey, look at what this looks like sideways."
The emoticon turns 30 years old today.
... :)
30 years on I still remember it. Even though I did not invent it, I started the conversation that sparked it. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/mbj/smiley/joke_thread.html
Brings back good memories of the start of the Internet and the small community of users at that time!
Thanks for the reminder!
