The Birth Of The Smiley

Given that there’ve been some ramblings about smileys recently, I thought it was worth pointing to <a title=”“Joke” Conversation Thread in which the :-) Was Invented” href=”http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm”>how it all started</a>. None of your silly little pictures there, just good old-fashioned ASCII ;-)