Digital Smiley Face :-) is 25 Years Old

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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# Bruce Morton 2 Oct 2007

___________________ _-_
\==============_=_/ ____.—’—`—.____
\_ \ \—-._________.—-/
\ \ / / `-_-’
__,–`.`-’..’-_
/____ ||
`–.____,-’

# Bruce Morton 2 Oct 2007

Uhh, that was supposed to be the starship Enterprise. I guess ASCII art can only be done in courier.

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