According to the Oct 1st issue of RCR Wireless News, the digital smiley face 
is 25 years old. Scott E. Fahlman claims he was the first person to put a colon, hyphen, and right parenthesis together to form a horizontal smiley face. Mr. Fahlman is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. See what higher education can do?
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Uhh, that was supposed to be the starship Enterprise. I guess ASCII art can only be done in courier.