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The first internet smiley
Jamie Started conversation Sep 13, 2002
The register has a story about this today ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27107.html ). Scott Fahlman's original post has been dredged up from backup tapes, by Microsoft research, of all people. The summary is at http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html and the thread it was in is shown at http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Joke_Thread.html .
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Mina Posted Sep 13, 2002
Maybe it's because I'm so used to smileys, but it seems as if they have been around for much longer!
Thanks for the links, it's interesting. 
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Jamie Posted Sep 13, 2002
"seems as if they have been around for much longer". I was in Primary 2 when that one was made 
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