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 ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — There have been some pictures circulating around social media showing a “smiley face” in the night sky that supposedly will be visible on the morning of April 25. In reality, this ...

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Scott E. Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University claims to be the inventor of the smiley, or emoticon. What started as a colon and an end parenthesis in 1982 on a university bulletin board to indicate a ...

Rickey Smiley made an announcement that May 1 would be his last day on Facebook. This is due to what he described as negative energy and messy people on his timeline that left derogatory comments in ...

Facebook lets you add special characters such as smileys, hearts and diamonds by using the "Alt" key codes that are built into Windows. There are several hundred special characters that you can choose ...