Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis — as a horizontal "smiley ...

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ADELAIDE, Australia, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- According to a study by researchers at Flinders University in Australia, smiley face emoticons trigger the same part of the brain as a human face. In the study, ...

In the early days of the internet, computer scientist Scott Fahlman ran into a problem on Carnegie Mellon University’s online bulletin boards. People used the bulletin boards — a kind of primitive ...

Scott Fahlman, programmer and retired professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was the first documented person to use the emoticons :-) and :-(when proposing the sequence of characters to mark when ...

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Think you’re being nice when you add a smiley face to the end of your email? According to one study, you could be conveying something else. The new study, titled the "The Dark Side of a Smiley," ...